Business strikes deal to help produce denim jeans in Asia and Africa

Rotherham-based listed cleaning company, Xeros Technology Group, has signed a binding Heads of Terms agreement with Ramsons Garment Finishing Equipment PVT.

The deal will see Ramsons develop, manufacture and sell garment finishing equipment used to make denim jeans, which incorporates Xeros’ water saving technology on an exclusive basis across South Asia and Africa.

Ramsons is the largest supplier of garment finishing equipment in South Asia. It has four production facilities and 15 service centres across six countries.

The scope of the agreement is to integrate Xeros’ XOrb™ and XDrum™ products across Ramsons’ range of denim processing machines, which are produced at drum sizes from 500 litres to 5,000 litres.

About 1.2bn pairs of jeans are manufactured globally every year, each consuming between 40 and 70 litres of water in the finishing stages of their production. The agreement also has the potential to incorporate Xeros’ XFiltra™ technology, which is being scaled up for use in industrial sized machines.

Xeros expects to finalise a commercial agreement with Ramsons in quarter four of 2019, with garment finishing equipment incorporating Xeros’ technology to be available in the market by the end of quarter one 2020.

Mark Nichols, CEO of Xeros, said: “Our agreement with Ramsons is yet another major milestone in the commercialisation of our technologies under a license model, and the first with an Original Equipment Manufacturer in the textiles market.

“The clothing industry is the second largest user of water on the planet, with each litre of water consumed also ending up as effluent, often containing unused chemical and particulate matter.

“By incorporating Xeros’ products in their machines, Ramsons have the capacity to make a significant contribution to extending precious resources throughout South Asia and Africa.”

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