Interview
Mr Rahul Patel  - Managing Director, Sintex Industries Ltd

Marking seven decades of success, established in the year 1931, Sintex Industries Limited (earlier known as The Bharat Vijay Mills Ltd) is the subsidiary of Sintex Group, a reputed group of companies with diversified interests in the arena of textiles, plastics, homeopathic medicines, and textile machinery engineering.

Sintex Industries Ltd operates through two divisions – textiles and plastics. In the area of textiles, the company is pioneer in high value fabrics and converting fibre into finished packaged fabrics. Company also manufactures fashion fabrics consisting of varied product mix in Cottons and Blends. Its product range includes yarn dyed shirting, jacquard & Dobby Structures, corduroys, bottomweights, solid dyed, Poplins & Dobby Shirting with varieties of weaves, varieties of jacquard, dobby & leno structured furnishing fabrics, organic cotton certified by union control, linen, cotton with linen, silk, lycra, nylon, tinsel and viscose and surface coating with pigment colors. The Company is backed with workforce of 2000 employees.

In last five years Sintex’s outlook has changed to a multi-product, multinational diversified group and turnover has increased more than five folds.

Mr Rahul Patel is the MD of Sintex Industries Ltd. He is an MBA from USA. He started his career with family owned business Sintex Group in year 1983, and in 1994, was promoted as Whole Time Director responsible for looking after the management and mainly concentrating to locate strategy for export of Company’s textiles business. It was in the year 2004, he was appointed as Managing Director. He is accredited for changing the Company into a multinational, multi product and diversified company and under his stewardship turnover of Sintex Industries has raised five folds.

Recently, in a survey conducted by a reputed magazine Business World to pick ‘India’s Most Valuable CEOs’, Mr Patel ranked first in Industrial sectoral ranking, and fourth in value ranking.

In a talk with Face2Face team, Mr Rahul Patel verbalizes his stance on catastrophic recession and the strategy to turn it into opportunity.