List of textile companies in India by hub and product

The textile hubs, the trade bodies, and ready lists of textile companies by city.

Updated 12 October 2026 · 5 min read

From fibre to finished garment

A list of textile companies in India can mean a spinning mill in Coimbatore, a powerloom shed in Bhiwandi, a saree trader in Surat or a knitwear exporter in Tiruppur. They sit at different stages of one long chain, and a seller usually fits only one or two of them. Map the chain before you look for names:

Spinning: cotton and blended yarn, with a large cluster around Coimbatore and Erode in Tamil Nadu.
Weaving and knitting: powerlooms in Bhiwandi and Malegaon, synthetic fabrics in Surat, knitting in Tiruppur and Ludhiana.
Processing: dyeing, printing and finishing houses in places such as Surat, Ahmedabad and Pali, and around Jaipur, where hand-block printing is a craft of its own.
Garmenting: Tiruppur for knitwear, Ludhiana for hosiery and woollens, and large clusters around Delhi, Bengaluru and Mumbai.
Home textiles: Panipat for blankets, rugs and furnishings.
Trading: cloth markets in almost every city, from Surat's Ring Road markets to the wholesale lanes of Delhi and Mumbai, where much of the fabric changes hands.

Ahmedabad's cotton mills and denim makers add another layer. If you sell dyes, you want stage 3; looms and yarn, stage 2; zips and labels, stage 4.

Trade bodies and public records for textile firms

AEPC and TEXPROCIL. The Apparel Export Promotion Council represents garment exporters and TEXPROCIL represents cotton textile exporters. Their members are exporters only, which leaves out most domestic mills and traders.
DGFT's IEC check. Confirms that a firm holds an Importer-Exporter Code. Handy when a buyer says it exports, but it lists no products or contacts.
GST taxpayer search. Shows a trader's legal name, trade name, address and whether the registration is active. In a trade that runs on credit, check it before the first dispatch.
Market and cluster associations. Cloth merchants' associations, powerloom owners' bodies and processors' associations often keep member books. Worth asking for if you work in one town.
Trade fairs. Yarn, fabric and garment fairs bring mills and buyers together for a few days, and many publish their exhibitor lists.

For an export-focused search, our exporters and importers guide explains shipment data and IEC in more detail.

Our list of textile companies in India, town by town

Our Textiles & Fabrics list covers 39,780 mills, processors, makers and cloth traders in 237 cities and towns. 61% have a mobile number and 61% an email address; 76% name a person to ask for. For 82% of rows a category says what the firm makes or trades, such as yarn, hosiery or printed fabric. There are separate lists for 21 cities and 11 states; the biggest city lists are below.

Textile firms by town

By stage and product

Narrower lists split the trade by stage and product. Pick the one that matches what you sell:

Selling to garment shops instead

If your buyers are the stores that sell finished clothes, the clothing and fashion stores list is the one to open:

Who sells to the textile trade

Dyes and chemicals: reactive and disperse dyes, auxiliaries and finishing chemicals, much of it from the Vapi and Ankleshwar belt, sold to processing houses.
Machinery and spares: looms, knitting machines, computerised embroidery machines (a large market in Surat), stenters and their spare parts.
Yarn dealers and agents looking for weavers and knitters who buy every month.
Garment trims: buttons, zips, labels, tags, elastic and polybags for stitching units.
Buyers of fabric and job work: fashion brands, boutiques and buying houses looking for mills, printers or stitching units.
Services: transporters, billing and stock software for cloth traders, and rooftop solar for spinning mills with heavy electricity bills.

Calling mills, processors and cloth traders

Speak their units. Yarn sells by count and kilo, fabric by GSM, width and metre, garments by the piece or dozen. Getting this right in your first sentence tells the owner you know the trade.
Open with one specific offer. For example: "We supply reactive dyes to processing houses in Pali and Balotra and do a free lab match on your first shade. May I send a shade card?"
Time the call. Cloth markets open late and close late, so call traders after 11:30 a.m. Mill owners are easier to reach after the morning production round, around noon. Export units are busiest just before a shipment; if someone says so, ask when to call back.
Prepare for the questions: rate per kilo or metre, minimum quantity, swatches or samples, delivery time and, above all, payment terms. The textile trade runs on credit, so state yours plainly at the start.
Use the local language where you can. Gujarati in Surat, Tamil in Tiruppur, Punjabi or Hindi in Ludhiana. Our telecalling scripts in Hindi and English give you tested openers.

Check the DND rules for calls and SMS before a campaign, even when you are calling businesses.

Things buyers ask about textile lists

Which city has the most textile companies?

In our list it is Mumbai, followed by Delhi and Bengaluru. Big cities lead because head offices and cloth traders sit there, while many mills and processing units are in smaller hub towns. If you sell to factories, look at the town lists, not only the metros.

Can I get only garment exporters?

Yes. Filter the category column for exporters, or start from a garment exporters list if one appears above. An IEC check and AEPC membership confirm that a firm exports.

Is a textile companies list the same as a list of clothing shops?

No. Textile companies make or trade yarn and fabric; clothing stores sell finished garments to the public. They need different pitches, which is why they are separate lists.