Products
Products of Yirgalem Addis Textile Factory
The factory established by the Greece investor its former name of Lazaridis Cotton Mills LTD S.C, in 1954 E.C (1961 G.C) and has its principal company location in the Addis Ababa city area in Ethiopia, created to produce & supply a cotton yarn the later on by the name of Adei Ababa Yarn Factory and Addis Izemir Textile Factory by expanding into blanket, knitting, dyeing and garment plants developing self-contained manufacturer with integrated plants. Currently by the name of Yirgalem Addis Textile Factory PLC in 2002 E.C (2010 G.C) was privatized from government ownership on sales basis and created to bringing integrated products & services by under gone through various rehabilitation and expansion projects plus employee’s capacity building programs to improve its capacity and competitiveness in export and domestic markets. The company is located in Addis Ababa Debrezeit Road, Nefas silk-lafto, and it has the advantage of getting electric power supply, proximity to center of the Addis Ababa city market (Merkato) and Mojo dry port and the basic infrastructure of water supply, schools, hospitals, potential train transport and other facilities.
To be one of the nation’s leading apparel, knitting fabrics and blanket manufacturer that satisfies its customer’s need.
Fairness and integrity: adhere to the principles of fairness; be honest, transparent and accountable to all stakeholders.
Innovation: be oriented towards learning and continual improvement Excellence: be operationally and professionally excellent.
Social responsibility: build up belongingness to employees and communities
Sustainability: Fulfill our stakeholder responsibilities through disciplined business practices
Yirgalem Addis Textile Factory PLC is an integrated company which has Knitting, Dying, Garment and Blanket Plant and give services such as Jeans Washing, Garment Service, Knitting and Dying Services. The factory has production capacity of:-
With its modern circular and flat knit machineries the knitting plant can produce the following ranges of products :
Construction : Single Jersey , Rib , Stock net , popcorn , French terry, Interlock , draw cord, collar and cuff
Content : With or without spandex
Composition : 100% cotton , 100% polyester or blended items
GRIEG GSM : 100 – 200
With its surplus capacity this production unit also gives fabric KNITTING services to external customers
The dyeing facility is equipped with different modern machineries to produce :
With its surplus capacity this production unit also gives fabric dyeing and garment services to external customers.
The garment plant is equipped with modern design, cutting , sewing , printing , finishing machineries and vibrant work force to produce different high quality knit garments that compete in the international market. The products include :
The blanket unit is equipped with modern machineries to produce :
The facilities area equipped with modern circular and flat knit machineries and are backed up with a team of trained and efficient man power resources. Our knitwear plant started production with a firm determination to manufacture international standard quality fabrics including jersey, rib , interlock , French terry, stock net, collar and cuff .
Dyeing Capacity : 7000 Kg Per Day.
Garment Washing : 10,000 Kg. Per Day.
The dyeing section processes 100% cotton fabrics and blended fabrics We are OEKO- TEX certified and we use highly environment -friendly dyes of the best quality. The section has a water treatment and recycling unit that that protects environmental pollution by controlling the content of hazardous chemicals in the sewage water. In the washing section of the dyeing unit we are equipped with modern washing , squeezing and drying machines to make stone washing , enzyme washing , bleach washing and normal washings processes.
We have well organized work-force that are incorporated with full drive, efficiency and experience. We have a well-organized design room and printing facility to produce more value added garments.
The blanket unit is equipped with weaving, direct warping and sectional warping, raising, stitch bonding and carding facilities to produce high quality woven and non-woven blankets. The non-woven blanket production facility is very rare in Africa and gives a good advantage of waste recycling that makes us cost effective and environment-friendly.
We commit ourselves to produce high quality textile and garment products and providing on time delivery with reasonable price, and through complying with social, environmental and legal issues that meet internal and external relevant interested parties through implementation of effective Quality Management System based on ISO 9001:2015. We always strive to meet and exceed the dynamic customers’ needs and expectation through continual improvement of the effectiveness of our Quality Management system on our product and service quality. We value our customers’ feedback to ensure that the company engaged a sustainable system in the company, create organizational knowledge, keep comply with social environmental and legal issues and improve continually our products and services quality, competitiveness and reputation. The top management ensures the involvement of stakeholders at all levels of the organization for the achievement of this quality policy and excellence in performance to attain the company objective and hence benefit all company’s stakeholders.
YATF conducting new management systems and integrating it with the existing one in order to comply with legal, social and environmental requirements and continually improve its capability to satisfy its customer. The company has assign responsible person to manage this. YATF also sets code of conducts which forth the basic standards of ethical and responsible business that must be followed by all managers, officers and employees of the company. These standards are based on YATF’s ethical values of Fairness, Honesty, Integrity, Respect and Responsibility that are critical to YATF t’s success YATF Code Of Conduct: Core Principles , Fair Labor and Employment Practices, Responsibility for Products and Services, confidential information, Fair Business Practices, Responsible Business, Conduct Ethical Personal Conduct
YATF protect the health, safety, and rights of employees, the community and environment in which they operate, and the lives and communities of workers in their supply and distribution chains. YATF strive to comply with social and legal requirements regarding workers and societies in order to create safe and stable working condition and social accountability respectively. The company work on compliance code of conduct that ensure minimum labor standards, occupational safety measures and environmental concerns to its workers. Since our company is recognized by BSCI, and the company has worked on the following BSCI code of conduct. 1. The Right Of Freedom of Association And Collective Bargaining 2. Fair Remuneration 3. Occupational Health and Safety 4. Special Protection for Young Workers 5. No Bonded Worker 6. Ethical Business Behaviour 7. No Discrimination 8. Decent Working Hour 9. No Child Labour 10. No Precarious Employee 11. Protection of Environment And also certified by OEKO-TEX confidence in textile standard 100 which the company exclusively produced the product from materials certified according to standard 100 by OEKO-TEX. Means it meets the human – ecological requirements.
YATF is committed to reducing its impact on the environment. We will strive to improve our environmental performance over time and to initiate additional project and activities that will further reduce our impact on the environment. Our commitment to the environment extends to our customer, staff and the community in which we operate. We are committed to: comply with all applicable environmental regulations, prevent pollution, train all of our staff on environmental program and empower them to contribute and participate, communicate our environmental commitment and effort to our customer staff and our community, continually improve over time by striving to measure our environmental impacts and setting goes to reduce these impacts each year. Waste Management Policy It is our company policy to ensure a high level of commitment to good environmental policies throughout our business activities. It is our intention to develop this policy by minimizing the generation of waste, through good purchasing practice of materials used throughout the production system and reuse and recycle materials whenever practical to do so by complying with all legal and regulatory frameworks. To help ensure we give proper consideration to our environmental and waste management responsibilities and to assist in the minimization of waste and the recycling of materials wherever practicable, systems and procedures will be implemented to encourage the recycling of material with a view to minimizing the overall levels of waste we produce. All staff are expected to abide by the procedures set forth and co-operate with management in the execution of this policy. Waste Water Treatment (Effluent Treatment Plant) Yirgalem Addis Textile Factory PLC has a significant volume of effluent discharge; when operating at full capacity estimated to be 900 cubic meter per day coming from the knit processing and Dyeing washing plants. YATF construct and install waste water treatment plants which have an excellent effluent discharge during operation. The ETP (water treatment plant) treated effluent waste water as per the specific parameters set by the local regulatory authority i.e. Ethiopian Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) and complying with the national effluent discharge limit regulations and internationally cherished brand buyers requirements.
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