Pakistan Textile Journal. march index

BASF Pakistan Private Limited and Texlynx Home signed a Memorandum of Understanding to collaborate in developing innovative textile articles and in this way buying house in Pakistan that sources for global retailers and brands in USA and Europe.

BASF Pakistan and Texlynx Home joint collaboration is the first instance for Texlynx to collaborate with a textile chemicals supplier. This collaboration aims at presenting innovative textile finishes and concepts, such as functional finishes and textile processes that conserve resources to the global market and showcase high value articles that textile industry of Pakistan has to offer. The partnership offers the retailers not only support in sourcing, but also technical know-how.

“BASF is committed to the sustainable development of the textile industry. We want to work together with customers and partners along the textile value chain to deliver high quality textile articles that also meet the latest global ecological standards and requirements,” states Klaus Tiedemann, heading the Global Value Chain Marketing Team at BASF Textile Chemicals. “Working with Texlynx was a natural choice for us combining Texylnx’s leading position and experience in Pakistan’s sourcing with BASF’s broad product portfolio and application know-how, we can develop innovative articles and eco-efficient processes in the interest of the entire textile industry,” he added

Texlynx will have access to BASF’s application laboratory in Pakistan to jointly develop new effects. Imran Lateef, Founder of Texlynx said: “Value addition and process reengineering is a must to maintain and enhance the competitiveness of Pakistan’s textile industry. Texlynx is delighted to work with BASF, who has a broad chemical and technical expertise. We believe that the increasing challenges of the industry can only be overcome by joint interdisciplinary teams.”

BASF’s core business in Pakistan includes local manufacturing and marketing of over 100 products. The product portfolio includes a wide range of Leather and Textile Pigments and Auxiliaries and General Purpose Polyester Resins.

The company's strong presence in the Leather and Textile industries, backed by excellent technical support, is also playing an important role in promoting Pakistan's exports. The Production Plant situated at Landhi was ISO 9000 certified in 1998 and Environmental Management System 14001 certification in 2004. The state-of-the-art plant possesses a well-equipped quality control laboratory in conjunction with two application laboratories exclusively for Leather and Textile ensuring consistent quality and extending technical support to the customers. All these laboratories work in close association with the Sialkot application laboratory. In addition, the credit of introducing Unsaturated Polyester Resins in the domestic market goes to BASF Pakistan as well.

The Textile Chemicals business unit of BASF offers textile auxiliaries for weaving, pretreatment and dyeing, as well as comprehensive solutions for pigment printing, finishing and textile coatings. BASF products are manufactured and marketed worldwide.

Texlynx Home is Pakistan's most prestigious and trusted sourcing company that continually innovates to serve its manufacturing and retail partners. In 10th year of its inception Texlynx closed business at USD 47.5 million sales in December 2007. Besides an elaborate setup in Pakistan Texlynx has its presence in USA, Spain and UAE. Over the years Texlynx group management has established other textile focused businesses like Fiberlynx, dealing in greige and processed fabric exports, Global Services Concept, a compliance consultancy supporting vendors with HR, IT and technical issues.