Public (: : TRIDENT) |
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Founded | 1990 |
Headquarters | Punjab, India |
Area served
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Worldwide |
Key people
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Rajinder Gupta, Chairman Deepak Nanda, Managing Director Pallavi Shroff, Director Abhishek Gupta Institution Builder and Member of the Corporate Advisory Board |
Products | Yarns, Terrycloth, Paper and Chemicals |
Revenue | ₹3,358 crore (US$520 million) (FY 2012–13) |
Profit | ₹4.29 billion (US$66 million) (FY 2012–13) |
Number of employees
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~12,000 (2015) |
Website | http://www.tridentindia.com/ |
TridentGroup (: , : TRIDENT) is a diversified group of businesses headquartered in Ludhiana of Punjab State in India. Trident Limited (Trident) is the flagship company of TridentGroup, a USD 1 billion Indian business conglomerate. The group operates in five business segments: Yarn, Bed Linen, Paper, Chemicals and Captive Power. Trident Limited, the flagship company of the group has its customer base in more than 100 countries across 6 continents. Trident is one of the largest yarn spinners in India, one of the world's largest terry towel manufacturers and the world's largest wheat straw based paper manufacturer.
The group was earlier known as Abhishek Industries. It was incorporated on April 18, 1990 in the state of Punjab. In 1992, the company started implementing its yarn spinning project in joint sector with PSIDC to set up manufacturing facilities for cotton yarn with an installed capacity of 24,960 spindles. Subsequently, the capacity was upgraded to 32,400 spindles. In the year 1998, PSIDC and the company set up another unit of 43,392 spindles at a capital outlay of Rs. 9500 lacs out of which 36,288 spindles started commercial production from July 1, 1999.
TPM policy with the objective to achieve Zero breakdown, Zero accidents and Zero defects TPM : Awards and Accolades
First Prize at 20th Kaizen Conference, a National level CII competition Trident achieved OPL Awards at 12th TPM National Conference Trident received 1st Runner-Up Prize at 25th Quality Circle Competition organized by CII (Northern Region) Trident received 3rd Prize at First M.P. State Level Kaizen Competition organized by CII
The Group operates mainly in five different Segments namely Home Textiles, Yarn, Paper and Chemical and Energy.
Trident Yarn (formerly known as Abhishek Yarns) had a modest beginning in 1993 with just 17,280 spindles at Barnala (Punjab).
Trident has one of country’s largest single-location spinning capacities. Trident has imported Machinery from Rieter-Switzerland, Murata- Japan, Zinser- Germany and Savio- Italy besides LMW-India and has a wide range of product basket across cotton yarn, blended yarn, special open-ended & other specialized yarns, organic cotton and spun yarn categories.
Trident Limited has an installed capacity of 365,904 spindles and 5500 rotors, capable of manufacturing 8,400 tonnes of cotton and blended yarn per month. The Company also has Yarn processing capacities of 6,825 TPA. Yarn segment contributes 46% to the Company’s aggregate revenues. Yarn segment has export presence in 19 countries and witnessed 27% exports contribution to the total Yarn revenues of INR 16,837 million during FY13.