KARL MAYER sold its premiere unit for indigo dyeing to ENOD S.A., on the Argentinian market. The company, based in La Rioja, supplied the PRODYE-S® indigo dyeing machine as a part of an investment project with which the company of the national CLADD group has expanded its existing plant with a new 10,000 m2 warehouse and built a new production hall for weaving. The expenditure, worth 36 million dollars, has created around 330 direct jobs in the scope of the comprehensive project.
ENOD is one of the companies that created its own strategy against the economic policies during the four-year (2015-2019) presidency of Mauricio Macri. In 2019, the Ministry of Production of Argentina recommended that domestic textile producers relocate their manufacturing to Vietnam and China and re-import the goods produced under their own brand, however, ENOD preferred to take risks and invest.
The importance of his expansion step is shown by the prominent line-up of speakers during the celebrations for the inauguration of the new operating units. Alberto Fernández, serving as the president of Argentina since 2019, was among those who attended the event on June 30, 2022.
1.4 million m of fabric to be produced per month in the country itself with KARL MAYER
ENOD’s new weaving mill was created by investing in a property of the ARISCO factory recovered from the provincial government. In addition to the capacities for the production of woven garment fabrics, it includes an indigo dyeing plant. The company ordered the plant technology required for denim warp preparation from KARL MAYER and supplied a PROSIZE® sizing machine and its PRODYE-S® indigo dyeing machine to La Rioja. The two machines, among the bestsellers in the denim sector, draw attention with their price-performance ratio.
The denim specialist of the KARL MAYER Group Stefano Agazzi said that they are pleased to be able to contribute with their technology to the market expansion of their customer and to the strengthening of the national economy.
With the new state-of-the-art capacities, denim can be produced in the country itself, so it no longer has to be imported. The 102 weaving machines are expected to produce 1.4 million m of fabric per month, and 1 million m of fabric will be dyed in the dyeing plant.