The most common enquiry we receive reads: “Please send your best price for towels.“
We cannot answer it, and neither can anyone else. Towel is a category, not a product.
The same word covers a 400 GSM gym towel and a 1, 000 GSM bathmat, and the price between them differs by several times over.
This is what to send instead, and why each item matters.
Kiran Global Exports is a terry towel manufacturer and exporter from Solapur, Maharashtra, producing through a partner mill weaving terry since 1972 — OEKO-TEX Standard 100, GRS, ISO 9001, MADE IN GREEN and BSCI certified.
THE EIGHT THINGS A MILL NEEDS
Item. Bath towel, bath sheet, hand towel, face cloth, bathmat, pool towel, bathrobe. Name it.
Size. In centimetres, or in inches for US buyers. Do not rely on the item name alone.
A UK hand towel is 50 x 90 cm, a German one is 50 x 100 cm, and a US one is 16 x 30 inches. All three are called a hand towel.
Weight. GSM, or pounds per dozen for US buyers. If you quote lb/dz, send the size with it — lb/dz is a total weight, so it moves with size as well as density, and the number alone tells a mill almost nothing.
Colour. White, a shade reference, or a Pantone. If it is going near chlorine or bleach, say so, because that decides vat dyeing versus reactive.
Construction. Combed or standard ring spun, zero twist, waffle, one-side terry.
If you do not know, describe the use and we will recommend.
Branding. Printed label, embroidery, or woven jacquard border.
Send artwork as a vector file if you have one.
Quantity per size. Not a total.
A programme of 5, 000 pieces split across five sizes prices differently from 5, 000 bath towels.
Delivery port. Landed cost cannot be quoted without it.
FIVE THINGS THAT ARE NOT REQUIRED BUT CHANGE THE ANSWER
Your property type or end use. A city hotel, a beach resort, a gym and a retail programme need four different towels at the same stated GSM.
Your laundry protocol and water hardness. Hot sanitising cycles rule out zero twist.
Hard water rules out a very dense pile. These are the two commonest causes of a towel “failing“ when the towel was fine and the specification was wrong.
Your climate. Humid markets need lighter towels than the buyer usually wants.
This is the single most frequent correction we make.
Your season and deadline. Working backwards from your date tells us whether the order is realistic before you commit to it.
Whether the goods go to a property or to retail sale.
Retail carries labelling obligations that hospitality does not, and relabelling in a destination warehouse costs many times what correct labelling costs in the factory.
THE FASTEST THING YOU CAN DO
Post us a towel you already buy.
Matching a physical sample is faster and far more accurate than working from any written specification, and it removes the guesswork about finish, hand feel and shade that words never quite capture.
One towel in an envelope saves two weeks of sampling.
A TEMPLATE YOU CAN COPY
Item:
Size:
Weight (GSM or lb/dz):
Colour:
Construction (if known):
Border style (plain hem, dobby, jacquard):
Branding method and artwork:
Quantity per size:
Delivery port:
End use (hotel, resort, gym, spa, retail):
Laundry: in house or contracted, wash temperature if known:
Water hardness if known:
Required delivery date:
Quote required: FOB, landed, or both:
Replacing an existing towel: yes or no, sample being sent
ONE QUESTION TO ASK US BACK
Is the quoted weight before washing or after.
Terry loses weight and shrinks in finishing, so a pre-wash figure is always higher than what reaches your linen room.
Expect 5 to 7 percent shrinkage over the first three industrial washes. Ask any supplier for the finished weight after washing and for the expected shrinkage.
A supplier who cannot answer both is quoting from a catalogue rather than from production.
WHAT HAPPENS AFTER YOU SEND IT
We come back with a specification in writing, a price in FOB and landed with the working shown, and where there is a cheaper way to get what you actually need, we say so rather than quoting the version that suits us.
Kiran Global Exports
Terry Towel Manufacturer & Exporter
Solapur, Maharashtra, India 413004
exportskiranglobal@gmail.com
+91 99839 11181
www.kiranglobalexports.com
