Nyanza Textile Industries Limited (Nytil), is an integrated

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manufacturing company in Uganda.

Location

The headquarters of the company and the company's factory are located in the town of

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, in

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, along the western bank of the

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, between the

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and

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. This is approximately , by road, west of the

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of Jinja, the nearest large town. Nytil lies approximately ,by road, east of

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, the capital and largest city in that country. The coordinates of the main office and factory are:0°26'10.0"N, 33°11'10.0"E (Latitude:0.436116; Longitude:33.186104). The company also operates a second factory located on Kampala Road, in Kampala's

History

Nyanza Textitle Industries was established in 1954, by the colonial government as a parastatal company. The independent governments in Uganda ran the factory until 1996, when they sold it to ''Southern Range Nyanza Limited'', the company that runs it today.

Overview

Nytil is the largest integrated textile industry, Uganda. It has facilities for spinning, weaving, coloring, and tailoring. Spinning capacity is per 24 hours. Also in 24 hours, the factory can weave and tailor 18,000 T-shirts. The plant produces 150,000 bales of fabric annually, of which 15,000 are sold inside Uganda and the rest is exported. In 2018, total revenue is planned at US$50m (Shs167 billion), compared to $40m (about Shs133 billion) in 2015.

Operations

The plant employs 1,500 in three shifts. This compares with 6,800 employees in 1996, whose output was less than that of the present workforce. The factory buys cotton from farmers from the districts of

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and

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. The factory has a dedicated high voltage power line that supplies up to of electric power. The cotton used by this company is either imported from

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or sourced from

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in the Western Region of Uganda.

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