What we do
Cotton in.
Seven stages, one group, no handoffs to strangers.
Why it matters
Control every stage, or explain every delay.
Continuous production is the nucleus of our trade. Controlling every stage in-house — from yarn to finished garment — is what lets us hold quality, delivery and traceability to the same standard across four countries. Nothing waits on a supplier we do not own.
It is also why a buyer can trace a single garment back through sewing, cutting, printing, dyeing, knitting and spinning without leaving the group.
Vertical integration
Seven stages, one group.
Select a stage to see what happens inside it, and what we can run.
Spinning
Yarn production inside the group, so fibre quality is set by us and not bought in. Counts and blends are specified to the customer’s fabric standard before a single metre is knitted.
Knitting
Circular knitting to the fabric specifications our customers set. Single jersey, interlock, rib and fleece for babywear that has to survive repeated washing.
Dyeing & finishing
Our fabric processing unit has run since 2007, controlling shade, hand-feel and shrinkage in-house. Dyeing is where most babywear programmes are won or lost.
Printing
Fabric and garment printing, opened at Avissawella in 2012. Placement prints, all-over prints and the safety-tested inks that babywear buyers require.
Embroidery
Part of a value-added range that also covers printing, cutting and sewing. Applique, chain stitch and multi-head embroidery run alongside the sewing floor.
Cutting
Gerber cutting systems, with operator training run on our own floor. Automated lay planning keeps fabric utilisation high across long babywear runs.
Sewing
Lean sewing lines built around standard work instructions, so a style runs the same way on any line in any plant.
Product range
What comes off the line.
Product list to be confirmed against the current range.
Value added
A comprehensive range, in-house.
Embroidery
Applique, chain stitch and multi-head embroidery, run in-house alongside sewing.
Garment printing
Placement and all-over printing on finished garments, with safety-tested inks.
Fabric printing
Roll-to-roll printing at the fabric stage, opened at Avissawella in 2012.
Cutting & sewing
Automated lay planning and lean sewing lines built on standard work instructions.
Technology
A step ahead in production.
We keep a step ahead by adopting manufacturing technology as it evolves, and by training our own people to run it rather than buying the skill in.
Where we make it
Four countries.
Ten manufacturing locations across the group. The Sri Lanka plant list below is being verified against current operations.
India
Group origin, 1971. The mother operation.
Sri Lanka
Operations from 2003, across Avissawella, Trincomalee, Monaragala and Matara.
Bangladesh
Detail to be confirmed.
Ethiopia
Jay Jay Textile, from 2014.
Seethawaka EPZ, Avissawella
Avissawella
Seethawaka EPZ, Avissawella
Seethawaka EPZ, Avissawella
Seethawaka EPZ, Avissawella
Trincomalee
Kappalthurei Industrial Estate, Trincomalee
Kumara Waththa, Hulandawa, Monaragala
Weherahena Road, Kekanadura, Matara
Plant list from 2014 records — awaiting confirmation of current sites.
At a glance
Capacity summary.
Figures awaiting confirmation from Jay Jay Mills.