At a time when all raw materials prices, logistics, labor and most other inputs are rising, most manufacturers are looking for ways to reduce their costs.
Kangwal is also facing these pressures, however the mill is not backing down on quality. The company is taking a longer term view of the market and is committed to maintaining its same level of quality, despite current market conditions.
“Our logo is a lock to symbolize that we lock the quality into all of our products. We guarantee consistent quality. If a customer buys from us in January and then purchases again in June, they can be assured that they will have exactly the same quality each time,” said Niphan Wongphanlert, Managing Director.
To be able to achieve that quality – and maintain it – Kangwal does not change the raw materials it uses. The mill invests in good quality materials regardless of market conditions, which enables them to produce products where the quality is consistent.
“Our logo is a lock to symbolize that we lock the quality into all of our products.”
Maintenance Makes a Mill Stronger
On the factory side, Kangwal invests in preventive maintenance. The company has its own standards that it is committed to meeting, even if that means their costs are a bit higher.
“We have ISO2001:2015 2 and so have set the bar quite high for our products,” he said.
Part of the reason that Kangwal is able to meet such high standards is that it uses very high quality raw materials including U.S. cotton.
The Best Quality Comes from the Best Materials
“U.S. cotton has very little contamination so we can guarantee to our customers that our yarns will be free of contamination.”
In nearly 40 years, the company has not received any claims from customers. They attribute this to their investment in using U.S. cotton.
Kangwal is one of the largest spinners in Southeast Asia with around 390,000 ring spindles producing 6,500 tons of 100% cotton and cotton/polyester yarn per month.
The Best Quality Comes from the Best Materials
“U.S. cotton has very little contamination so we can guarantee to our customers that our yarns will be free of contamination.”
In nearly 40 years, the company has not received any claims from customers. They attribute this to their investment in using U.S. cotton.
Kangwal is one of the largest spinners in Southeast Asia with around 390,000 ring spindles producing 6,500 tons of 100% cotton and cotton/polyester yarn per month.
Gearing Up for a Stable Future
Kangwal is using the current market environment as an opportunity to maintain and upgrade their facilities. Even though market conditions are difficult to predict, the company believes in investing in new, state-of-the-art machines.
“We continue to invest in our facilities and this is part of the reason why we are able to ensure that our customers always get consistent, high quality products – that are more sustainable and with thanks to the Trust Protocol, more transparent,” said Mr. Wongphanlert.
Mr. K.V. Patil | Email. patil@kangwalmail.com | Tel. +66898093144
Certified Sustainable
The Trust Protocol is aligned with existing sustainability programs including the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals. It brings quantifiable and verifiable goals and measurement to sustainable cotton production, and drives continuous improvement in six key sustainability metrics – land use, soil carbon, water management, soil loss, greenhouse gas emissions, and energy efficiency. The Trust Protocol is designed from the ground up to address the unique regulatory and larger farm growing environment in the United States.
How the Trust Protocol Works
The Protocol Consumption Management Solution (PCMS) starts at the gin when the participating producer’s cotton is ginned and each unique Permanent Bale Identification number (PBI) is attached. At this point we know the exact gin weight and can create an exact amount of Protocol Cotton Consumption Units, where one Protocol Cotton Consumption Unit is created for each kilogram of Protocol Verified Cotton. This important step provides absolute authentication of U.S. cotton origin, verifying against the USDA database.
Supply Chain Transparency
The PCMS harnesses blockchain technology through a powerful combination of the Trust Protocol platform and TextileGenesis™ system to deliver full supply chain transparency by recording and verifying the movement of U.S. cotton along the entire supply chain. This creates article-specific transparency for finished products that was not previously accessible to brands and retailers.
Trusted Third Party Certification
The Trust Protocol incorporates a comprehensive program of verification against Trust Protocol benchmarks, in the form of both second-party and independent third-party audits of grower performance through Control Union Certifications—the latter through allocated on-site visits.
Control Union Certifications has certified over 150 industry standards programs worldwide, including working as a key partner in the early development and piloting phases of Impact Claim Verification Protocol.
Learn More https://trustuscotton.org
The COTTON USA Advantage
- Family growers who are committed to working their fields sustainably and leaving them better for future generations.
- A long history of innovative harvesting and ginning technologies resulting in higher-quality cotton.
- One of the highest rates of adoption in the world for Precision Agriculture, which minimizes water and pesticide usage.
- U.S. farmers operate under voluminous, stringent, and enforceable regulations.
- A commitment to transparent partnership that is unmatched anywhere.
- One of the most comprehensive systems for monitoring and measuring all the key metrics involved in sustainability.
U.S. Cotton Facts
- 2/3 of U.S. cotton land uses only rain water
- U.S. cotton water use efficiency has improved by 79% over the past 35 years
- Cotton is carbon footprint neutral, meaning the plants remove more greenhouse gasses than production produces.
Sustainability Goals
The U.S. cotton industry is building upon the strong environmental gains already achieved over the past 35 years. The aim is to help members meet their current needs while making the world a better place for future generations.
Specific goals include:
- Reducing by 13 percent the amount of land needed to produce a pound of cotton fiber
- Reducing soil loss by 50 percent, in balance with new soil formation
- Increasing water use efficiency (more fiber per gallon) by 18 percent
- Reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 39 percent
- Increasing soil carbon in fields by 30 percent
- Reducing energy to produce seed cotton and ginned lint by 15 percent
Learn More www.cotton.org
