Panipat, India
Handtex Industries Private Limited has made home furnishings at Plot 79 in Sector 29 Part II of the Huda industrial area at Panipat since 1980. The company runs its own fabric weaving, printing and dyeing and makes its own cushion fillers, and lists around five thousand home furnishing products across floor coverings, cushions, throws, curtains, bedspreads, soft furniture, and bags and baskets. Floor coverings and cushions are the deepest parts of the catalogue, at thirty five and twenty nine listed items. It describes itself as a five million dollar company selling into eighteen countries. Its stated certifications are the Global Recycled Standard, the Higg Index, ICS, Sedex and AEO.
The deepest line in the catalogue at thirty five listed items, shown by design number rather than by name. The pieces are woven and tufted at the company works in Panipat.
Twenty nine cushion designs, made with fillers the company produces in house. They use fabric woven, printed and dyed on the company own plant.
Twenty eight throw designs listed as a line in their own right. They are woven at Panipat alongside the bedspreads and curtains.
Nine curtain designs made from fabric the company weaves, prints and dyes itself. They sit in the soft furnishing half of the catalogue with the bedspreads.
Six bedspread designs produced on the company own weaving and printing lines. They are made at the same Panipat plant as the cushions and throws.
Twelve bag and basket designs, the smallest of the seven catalogue headings. They are carried as accessories beside the cushions and floor coverings.