Texel Industries Ltd. (formerly known as Texel Plastics Pvt Ltd) manufactures speciality coated fabrics, protection covers and other related products at its plant in Kalol, Gujarat. The Company promoted by Shailesh Mehta and Naresh Mehta was incorporated in 1989. Presently, the Company is into manufacturing of Tarpaulins and Geomembrane.The Companys products are used in effluent storage ponds, foundations of buildings, waterproofing of buildings, building of roads, storage of grain, transportation of goods, etc. It worked upon an expansioncumdiversification plan in 1994, whereby, the production capacity was increased to 2195 tpa of widerwidth lowerweight speciality coated fabrics and PE protection covers. A new factory was set up for this purpose at Santej near Ahmedabad and went into production in Mar.95. The company entered the capital market in Sep.94. Among its products are tunnel lining membrane which provides high tear and puncture resistance to the rock surface of tunnels roof tile underlay, which prevents water seepage inside wooden houses pile liner (reinforced concrete columns). The company also developed a special highly chemicalresistant coatedfabric, geo membrane, that can withstand extremely corrosive acids. This was designed mainly for Hindustan Copper. Similarly, it has designed a special geo membrane for Chambal Fertilizers and Chemicals.The Company further diversified into the manufacture of coated paper used in the manufacture of flexible packaging.During 199697, Company was not able to capitalise on its value added products Viz. Geomembranes due to inherent weaknesses of the economy, and for this many large projects were pending. Company has now finalise some of the important contract and is hoping to increase the turnover of the of the value added Geomembrane product. In 199697, foreign exchange earned by the company is amounting to Rs. 3.71 cr.During the year 201819, the Company installed a new machinery viz. Multilayered Geo Composite Resin Coating Machine for product diversification and value addition. The Company set up a new manufacturing facility at Kheda, Gujarat with an installed manufacturing capacity of 10,080 metric tonnes (M.T.) per annum for Geosynthetics products. It further started commercial trial production from 4th February, 2022 and regular commercial production from 9th February, 2022.