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Textbooks can explain how a pair of jeans is made. A factory floor shows it. On 4 January 2020, students from National Textile University visited Azgard9 on an educational tour to see the denim industry first-hand.
At Azgard9, students can follow the whole chain in one visit. The company is a composite unit: it spins yarn, dyes and weaves denim, and cuts, stitches, washes and finishes garments. At the time of the visit, its main site at Manga, off Raiwind Road, ran the open-end spinning unit, 242 weaving looms and garment lines that produced 10.5 million pieces in the year to June 2019. For textile students, seeing carding, rope dyeing, weaving and laundry in sequence turns theory into something they can picture on the job.
Visits like this are part of a wider commitment to skills. Azgard9 works with the Punjab Skill Development Fund on a training programme in its garment division, offering quality skills to people who need them, and runs community training on safety, water, energy and waste management, and basic labour law.
Key facts
- Date4 January 2020
- Visitorsstudents of National Textile University
- What they sawspinning, weaving, dyeing and garment production at one site
- Garment output, FY201910.5 million pieces
- Skills partnerPunjab Skill Development Fund training programme in the garment division
Building the next generation of textile talent is an investment in the industry's future, and in the future Azgard9 puts before fashion.
