Textile companies in Coimbatore: mills, list and how to sell

The quick answer

No single register lists every textile company in Coimbatore with a phone number and an email. The two mill associations based in the city publish the best free starting points: the Tamil Nadu Spinning Mills Association (TASMA) lets you filter its member list by district, and on 10 November 2026 it showed 145 member entries in Coimbatore district and 188 in Tiruppur; the Southern India Mills' Association (SIMA) says 339 of its 481 member mills are in Tamil Nadu. Neither gives contact details you can work from. Starleads' Textiles & Fabrics in Coimbatore list had 557 businesses that day, with an email for 79% and a landline for 93%, but a mobile number for only 9%, so it is a list for email and office-hours calling. You can see 60 rows free before you pay.

This guide is for businesses that sell to or buy from Coimbatore's textile trade: cotton and yarn traders, machinery and spares dealers, dye and chemical suppliers, packaging firms, energy and compliance consultants, garment makers sourcing yarn or fabric, and exporters looking for a supplier. It explains how the cluster is made up, which official and trade sources are worth your time, what Starleads' data shows for Coimbatore and its neighbouring textile towns, and a step-by-step way to build and work a prospect list.

How Coimbatore's textile industry is made up

When people search for "textile companies in Coimbatore" they usually mean one of four quite different kinds of business, and a sales pitch that suits one rarely suits the others:

1. Spinning mills. The heart of the cluster. They turn cotton and other fibres into yarn, run round the clock, and buy cotton, spares, packing material, power and labour services in large and regular amounts. The trade bodies in the city are built around them: SIMA's membership table counts mills by spindles and rotors, and SIMA's eligibility rule starts at 6,000 spindles.
2. Weaving, knitting and processing units. Units that make grey fabric, knitted fabric, dyed and finished cloth. Many are smaller and owner-run, and some of them do job work for a mill or a trader who owns the yarn.
3. Garment and made-up makers and exporters. Knitwear and garment firms, workwear makers and home-textile units. The biggest knitwear cluster is next door in Tiruppur, and Starleads' Tiruppur exporters list shows it: its largest categories are Knitwear (242) and T-Shirts (165).
4. The supporting trade. Coimbatore is as much a textile engineering town as a textile town. Machinery makers, spares and accessories dealers, electronic counters and controls makers, belts and hoses, testing laboratories and consultants all sell to mills. In Starleads' Coimbatore textile list, the largest categories after "Textiles" (55) are "Manufacturers, Exporters" (52) and "Yarn" (31), and the categories shown on the list page include "Machinery, Textile" and "Machinery Spares".

The cluster also runs well beyond the city limits. TASMA's member list, which you can filter by district, shows how spread out spinning is across western and southern Tamil Nadu:

District (TASMA filter)	Member entries listed	What it tells a seller
Tiruppur	188	The largest group: spinning feeding the knitwear trade nearby
Coimbatore	145	Mills in and around the city, plus the associations, SITRA and the machinery makers
Erode	122	A third large group within a short drive of Coimbatore
Dindigul	94	A southern cluster worth a separate trip
Virudhunagar	83	Further south; mostly reached by phone and email first
Namakkal	76	Between the western and central districts
Salem	36	Smaller group
Karur	14	Few spinning members; Karur's list in our data is led by handloom products (see below)
All districts	860	Entries on the full list on 10 November 2026

We counted these on TASMA's member list on 10 November 2026. They are entries, not companies: one company often appears several times, once for each unit (for example "Unit I", "Unit II"), and the list also includes skill centres and an effluent treatment plant. Read it as a map of where spinning capacity sits, not a census.

The practical lesson for a seller: a "Coimbatore" sales territory is really Coimbatore, Tiruppur and Erode together, and a supplier who plans visits by district covers far more mills per day than one who works the city alone.

The official and trade sources, and what each one gives you

Before you buy any list, use the free sources. They are accurate about membership and capacity, even if they are thin on contacts.

Source	What it gives you	What it does not
SIMA (Southern India Mills' Association, Race Course, Coimbatore)	Member mills by state with spindles and rotors; membership rules; trade and product-supplier enquiry pages; circulars, textile data and market reports	A public list of members with phone numbers and buyers' names
TASMA (Tamil Nadu Spinning Mills Association)	An A to Z member list you can filter by district; recent circulars that show what mills are dealing with	Addresses, phone numbers or who buys what
SITRA (South India Textile Research Association, Avinashi Road)	Testing, calibration, consultancy and training for mills; its cost and yarn-price surveys of member mills	A directory; it is a research body, not a buyer's guide
Office of the Textile Commissioner, Coimbatore regional office	The Ministry of Textiles' regional office for scheme work, on Mettupalayam Road, R.S. Puram	Lists of private companies for sales use
GST, Udyam and MCA look-ups	Whether a firm's GSTIN is active, its legal name, its MSME registration, and a company's filings	Who to call; they confirm a firm once you have its name
Map and directory sites	Quick look-ups of a single mill or shop, often with a phone number	A clean export: you copy one row at a time, and the categories mix shops with mills

A few details from these sources are worth knowing before you call:

• SIMA is old and broad. Its profile says it was set up in 1933 with 11 members and "now has over 500 members covering all the sectors (fibre to finishing)". Its membership page counts 481 member mills holding 11.28 million spindles and 1,44,560 rotors (the page gives 144.56 thousand). Of those, 339 mills and 7.5 million spindles are in Tamil Nadu.
• SIMA membership marks a mill of a certain size. A firm needs an installed capacity of at least 6,000 spindles, or a turnover of ₹10 crore or more in the previous year, to join. The annual subscription is 0.01% of turnover, between ₹25,000 and ₹1,50,000. If a prospect is a SIMA member, you are talking to an organised mill with a purchase function, not a small job-work unit.
• SITRA sits among the mills. It was registered in 1951, started work in 1956 in SIMA's premises with 44 member mills, and its campus of about 13 hectares is, in its own words, "within easy access of a large number of textile mills". Its laboratories are NABL-accredited to ISO/IEC 17025:2017. For a supplier of testing instruments, machinery or chemicals, SITRA's departments (spinning, weaving and knitting, textile chemistry, medical textiles) show where mills look for technical advice.
• The Textile Commissioner has people on the ground. The Office of the Textile Commissioner, set up in 1943, works through 9 regional offices and 15 Integrated Textile and Apparel Development Centres, and Coimbatore has one of the regional offices.

SIMA's member mills by state

SIMA's own table (we read it on 10 November 2026) shows how heavily its membership sits in Tamil Nadu:

State	Member mills	Spindles (million)	Rotors (thousand)
Tamil Nadu	339	7.5	115.86
Andhra Pradesh	94	2.5	21.94
Kerala	16	0.22	0.36
Karnataka	11	0.24	1.49
Puducherry	4	0.09	0.77
Other states	17	0.46	4.14
Total	481	11.28	144.56

Seven in ten SIMA mills are in Tamil Nadu, and they hold two-thirds of SIMA's spindles. That concentration is why so many textile suppliers keep a branch or an agent in Coimbatore.

What Starleads' data shows for Coimbatore's textile trade

The figures below are counts of contacts in Starleads' data as shown on the list pages on 10 November 2026. They are not an official census of mills or companies, and a business can appear in more than one list.

List	Businesses	Mobile	Email	Landline	Contact name
Textiles & Fabrics in Coimbatore	557	9%	79%	93%	82%
Textiles & Fabrics in Tiruppur	383	42%	78%	83%	72%
Textiles & Fabrics in Karur	270	under 5%	85%	97%	28%
Textiles & Fabrics in Tamil Nadu	3,113	12%	78%	92%	73%
Exporters in Coimbatore	1,891	46%	84%	53%	64%
Exporters in Tiruppur	1,504	60%	57%	48%	37%
Industrial Machinery & Equipment in Coimbatore	788	10%	77%	95%	82%
Purchase & Procurement Heads in Coimbatore	522	none shown	74%	92%	100%

The Karur page does not give a mobile share, which we read as very few or none; the purchase heads page gives none either. What the numbers say:

• Coimbatore's textile list is an email and landline list. 79% of its 557 rows have an email and 93% a landline, but only 9% a mobile. Most rows give an office number, which usually reaches a reception or the purchase department, so plan calls between 10 am and 5 pm on working days and keep WhatsApp for people who give you their number.
• Tiruppur is more reachable by mobile. Its textile list has a mobile for 42% of rows and its exporters list for 60%, which fits a cluster of owner-run knitwear firms. If your offer suits garment makers, start there.
• Karur is a different trade. The largest category in its list is Handloom Products (79), then Fabrics (49). Only 28% of rows name a person, so an email to the firm's address works better than asking for someone by name.
• Coimbatore is second in Tamil Nadu, not first. In the state list of 3,113, Chennai has 1,187 rows, Coimbatore 557, Tiruppur 383, Karur 270 and Erode 205. For spinning mills specifically, TASMA's district list points west, to Tiruppur, Coimbatore and Erode.
• Our list is broader than the mill associations. TASMA lists 145 member entries in Coimbatore district; our Coimbatore list has 557 rows because it also holds yarn and fabric traders, machinery and spares makers, garment units and suppliers to the trade. The free sample shows that mix, including some rows that sell to mills rather than being mills. Use the Category column to keep only the kind of firm you want.
• The engineering side is large. The Coimbatore machinery list has 788 businesses, 29% of all such businesses in Tamil Nadu in our data, and its biggest categories are "Manufacturers, Exporters" (102), "Equipment & Machinery" (75) and "Pumps & Pumping Equipment" (75).

Across India, the Textiles & Fabrics in India list has 35,537 textile businesses, 63% of them with a mobile number. The biggest city lists:

• Mumbai 8,048 contacts · 35% email · 70% mobile ₹499
• Bengaluru 3,026 contacts · 35% email · 97% mobile ₹499
• Surat 2,505 contacts · 50% email · 74% mobile ₹499
• Ludhiana 1,903 contacts · 39% email · 81% mobile ₹499
• New Delhi 1,468 contacts · 81% email · 15% mobile ₹499
• Ahmedabad 1,191 contacts · 78% email · 88% mobile ₹499
• Chennai 1,187 contacts · 76% email · 7% mobile ₹499
• Jaipur 1,139 contacts · 42% email · 73% mobile ₹499
• Kolkata 987 contacts · 84% email · 6% mobile ₹499
• Pali 729 contacts · 3% email · 99% mobile ₹499
• Pune 599 contacts · 38% email · 76% mobile ₹499
• Coimbatore 557 contacts · 79% email · 9% mobile ₹499

Every city, state and specialisation list costs ₹499, plus 18% GST, and the All-India textile list is sold as bulk data. For the city's other industries, from pumps to foundries, see our list of companies in Coimbatore; for the national picture, the textile companies guide. Wider figures are on our Insights page.

Who sells to Coimbatore's mills, and what they are dealing with now

The quickest way to know what a mill needs this month is to read what its association tells it. TASMA's recent circulars, which anyone can read on its home page, were about these subjects in October and November 2026:

• Power. A meeting with the state power distribution company on "deemed demand" charges (5 November), and the state electricity regulator's draft regulations (September). Mills that run several shifts use a great deal of power, which is why energy auditors, rooftop and open-access solar firms, capacitor and power-quality suppliers and efficient motor dealers find a ready audience.
• Labour law and payroll. Circulars on an ESIC amnesty scheme, the EPFO due date for September 2026 contributions, and the monthly Consumer Price Index used for wage settlements. Payroll, HR and labour-law consultants sell into exactly this.
• Factory licences. A circular on renewing factory licences for 2027 with the state's Directorate of Industrial Safety and Health (DISH). Safety auditors, fire-safety contractors and compliance consultants follow that calendar.
• Skills. TASMA reports skill-development projects with 48,165 enrolled, 27,368 trained and 26,197 placed across its programmes, which tells a training provider that mills take workforce training seriously.

Matching your offer to the right buyer inside a mill matters as much as finding the mill:

You sell	Who usually decides	Best first contact
Cotton, fibre, yarn	The managing director or a family director, with the cotton purchase manager	A broker or agent they already use, or a direct call with today's price
Machinery spares, accessories, belts, cots and aprons	The spinning master or maintenance head, approved by purchase	The purchase office, asking for the maintenance head by role
Packing material: cones, tubes, bags, cartons	The purchase department, on rate contracts	Email with a rate sheet, then a sample visit
Energy, solar, power-quality equipment	The director, often after an energy audit	A short email quoting the saving per unit of power, then a site visit
Payroll, HR, labour-law and safety services	The HR or personnel manager, with the director's approval	The HR manager by name if the list gives it
Testing instruments, dyes and chemicals	The quality-control or processing head	The technical head; mention the tests or standards you support

If you sell to purchase departments across industries, our guide to reaching purchase managers explains how they work; if you sell machinery, see machinery manufacturers in India.

How to build a list of textile companies in Coimbatore, step by step

1. Decide which of the four kinds of business you want. Spinning mills, weaving and processing units, garment makers or the supporting trade. Write it down; it decides every filter that follows.
2. Draw the territory. For spinning, take Coimbatore, Tiruppur and Erode together (455 TASMA entries between them). For knitwear, start with Tiruppur. For handloom and made-ups, add Karur.
3. Download the free samples. Each Starleads list shows 60 real rows free, as Excel or PDF. Check that the categories and areas match what you sell before you pay anything.
4. Filter by the Category column. In the Coimbatore list, keep "Textiles", "Yarn", "Cotton Fabrics" and "Fabrics" for producers, or "Machinery, Textile" and "Machinery Spares" if you want fellow suppliers as partners. Drop rows that are clearly not your buyer.
5. Mark the organised mills. Cross-check names against TASMA's district list and, where you can, SIMA membership. A SIMA member has at least 6,000 spindles or ₹10 crore of turnover, so it deserves a planned visit, not just an email.
6. Check each firm before you give credit. Confirm the GSTIN is active and the legal name matches the invoice name; for companies, look up the company's status. Our guides to company search in India and the Udyam registration process show how.
7. Pick the channel the data supports. For Coimbatore's textile list, that is email first and the landline second. Send a short, specific email to the firm's address, then call the office line two or three working days later and ask for the person by role.
8. Plan visits by cluster. Group mills by town and road so that a day in the field covers several of them. Most mills buy from suppliers they have met.
9. Record every reply. Keep a column for "not interested", "call back in a month" and "sample sent". A list improves each time you work it, and removing those who say no keeps you within the rules below.

The rules for calling, SMS, email and WhatsApp

Business numbers are covered by India's telemarketing rules in the same way as anyone else's. A mill owner's mobile on the Do Not Disturb register is protected even when you call about yarn.

• DND (NCPR). TRAI's National Customer Preference Register records who has opted out of promotional calls and SMS. Promotional calls and SMS to numbers on it should not be made. Our DND check guide explains how the check works in practice.
• DLT for SMS. Promotional and service SMS go through a provider registered on the operators' DLT platforms, with your business registered as a sender and each message template approved. Unregistered bulk SMS is not delivered.
• Calls. Promotional voice calls should come from a registered telemarketer's 140-series number; service calls come from the 1600 series. A one-to-one call from a salesperson to a firm's office line about a specific business need is different from a mass promotional campaign, but keep it relevant and stop when asked.
• Consent on WhatsApp and email. Send WhatsApp messages and catalogues only to people who have agreed to receive them. Every email should say who you are, why you are writing to that firm, and how to stop further emails, and you should honour a request to stop at once.
• Business contacts only. Starleads sells lists of businesses and professionals for B2B use. It does not sell lists of private individuals such as mill workers, investors or consumers, and nothing in this guide is about reaching them.

Questions people ask

Which are the top textile companies in Coimbatore?

There is no official ranking. The best public signal of size is membership: SIMA admits mills with at least 6,000 spindles or ₹10 crore of turnover, and TASMA lists its members by district. For listed companies, annual reports and stock exchange filings show turnover and capacity. Be wary of "top 10" lists that do not say how they were ranked.

How many textile mills are there in Coimbatore?

No single public figure covers every unit. TASMA's member list had 145 entries for Coimbatore district on 10 November 2026, counting each unit separately; SIMA counts 339 member mills across Tamil Nadu. Starleads' Coimbatore textile list has 557 businesses, but it includes traders and suppliers as well as mills.

Why is Coimbatore called the Manchester of South India?

Because of its cotton mills, the way Manchester was known for them in England. Firms in the trade still use the name on their own websites, and the city is home to SIMA, founded in 1933, and the research association SITRA, which started work in 1956 in SIMA's premises.

Where are the spinning mills around Coimbatore?

Across the western districts more than in the city itself. On TASMA's list, Tiruppur (188 entries), Coimbatore (145) and Erode (122) have the most, followed by Dindigul (94), Virudhunagar (83) and Namakkal (76).

What is the difference between Coimbatore and Tiruppur for textiles?

Broadly, Coimbatore is the centre for spinning, textile engineering and the trade bodies, while Tiruppur is the knitwear and garment export cluster. Starleads' Tiruppur exporters list is led by Knitwear (242) and T-Shirts (165); its Coimbatore textile list by Textiles, Manufacturers and Exporters, and Yarn.

Is there a free list of textile companies in Coimbatore?

TASMA's district-wise member list is free but has names only. Directory sites show one business at a time. Starleads lets you see 60 rows of its Coimbatore textile list free, with contact details partly masked, before deciding whether to buy the full file.

How do I contact a spinning mill to sell yarn spares or packing material?

Call the mill's office line during working hours and ask for the purchase department or the maintenance head by role, then follow up by email with a rate sheet. Most mills buy through approved vendors, so ask what the approval process is and offer a sample or trial.