Textiles
Knitting, fabric processing, dyeing and finished garments — built up over four decades into one operation, held to one standard.
From fabric trader to manufacturer
The story begins in 1982, when Jayapalan Naroth founded Sree Aravind Enterprises as a fabric exporter. What started as a trade in cloth became, over four decades, a vertically integrated manufacturing operation — knitting, fabric processing, dyeing and finished garment production.
Labels that do not tolerate variance
Abercrombie & Fitch. Columbia Sportswear. Nautica. Hollister. Quiksilver. Replay. United Colors of Benetton.
The world's most demanding apparel brands, returning season after season.
Quality stops being something you inspect for at the end and becomes something you build in from the yarn.
A site chosen, not settled for
The Sri Lanka facility sits in Padeniya, Wariyapola, in the Kurunegala District of the North Western Province — on the Kurunegala–Anuradhapura road, roughly two and a half hours from Colombo's international airport.
The congested export zones of Negombo and Katunayake were passed over for a site with a loyal, local workforce drawn from three neighbouring villages. Production began in 2016, and at its peak the unit employed close to 1,000 people.
Built for export production
- Floor area
- 63,400 sq ft — 54,700 ground floor and 8,700 mezzanine
- Capacity
- Laid out and powered for up to 700 machines
- Status
- Built and approved under Sri Lanka's Board of Investment for export manufacturing
- Power
- Rooftop solar, three-phase grid supply and standby generation
- Water
- On-site reverse-osmosis treatment and a sewage treatment plant
- Climate
- Evaporative cooling and roof heat control, holding the floor at 25–28 °C
- Structure
- Purpose-built steel-frame factory, fully tiled raised floor with under-floor power
- Logistics
- Site laid out for 40-foot container trucks
Inside the floor
The photographs in this section are from our India unit in Sholinganallur, Chennai, where 1,200 people work. Alongside cutting, stitching and finishing, the unit runs its own CAD pattern-making and plotting, automatic fabric spreading, screen printing, heat-transfer printing and multi-head embroidery.
Origin access, in-house control, decades of continuity.
In an industry where reliability is rare and rarely proven, this is a manufacturer whose track record does the talking.
