Top 12 Activewear manufacturers in India (2026)
Published by Priya Nair · Last updated September 5, 2026
If you’re looking for the best activewear manufacturers in India, top choices in 2026 include SETU SOURCING, SCM Garments, KPR Mill, Eastman Exports, Varthagam International, and Texora Sourcing. Tirupur’s vertical mills knit, dye and sew performance cotton and blends in one cluster, with MOQs from 100 pieces per colour and an 18% US tariff since the February 2026 deal.
Top 12 activewear manufacturers in India
Performance knits, hoodies and gym wear out of the Tirupur cluster, from 177-million-piece mills to 100-piece startup runs.
SETU SOURCING, Your India Sourcing Agent
SETU SOURCING matches your activewear brief to the right Tirupur unit: performance blends and lycra handling, flatlock and coverstitch capability, GOTS or recycled programs. We benchmark FOB quotes, verify certificates at the sewing unit, and inspect at AQL before shipment.
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SCM Garments
One of Tirupur’s heavyweights with about 26,800 employees, Rs 2,850 crore of FY25 revenue and a reputation for activewear innovation on a fully vertical chain, SEDEX and GOTS certified with solar-powered operations.
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KPR Mill
Listed vertical group with capacity near 177 million knitted pieces a year including tees, activewear and athleisure, supplying about 60 brands in 60 countries with roughly 40% renewable energy.
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Eastman Exports
Tirupur’s flagship exporter runs a dedicated performance sportswear range alongside basics, about 8 million garments a month across 35 units, certified WRAP, SEDEX, SA8000 and BSCI.
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Varthagam International
Premium made-to-order programs across hoodies, joggers and henleys in Supima, Tencel and organic yarns, about 150,000 units a month with a 7-stage QC and reported Fortune 500 merchandise work.
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Stallion Garments
Integrated Tirupur unit since 1986 with factory approvals from GAP and Decathlon on file, a strong signal for sports basics programs at mid-size volumes.
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Cotton Blossom
About 50,000 basics and polos a day from a vertically integrated plant, with a gold-level Cradle to Cradle certification and a documented C&A supply chain, suited to volume gym basics.
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Shiva Texyarn
The technical-textile specialist of the Coimbatore belt, focused on performance fabrics and engineered textiles for activewear programs that need more than commodity jersey.
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Best Corporation
Tirupur veteran since 1967, integrated from spinning to garment at about 2.5 million pieces a month with OEKO-TEX, GOTS and Fairtrade certification for ethical activewear lines.
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The Synerg
Private-label partner covering gym wear and loungewear at 300 pieces per colour, with an in-house AQL lab, full needle detection and certified network lines carrying GOTS and WRAP.
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Texora Sourcing
Startup specialist with 100 pieces per colour on stocked fabrics including french terry for hoodies, its own cutting facility plus about 20 partner factories, and GOTS transaction certificates on request.
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Banga Knitwear
The Ludhiana option for winter-weight activewear: sweatshirts, sports uniforms and fleece from India’s second knitting hub, with about 950,000 garments supplied across 10+ export markets.
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Sourcing activewear from India in 2026
India’s activewear supply sits inside its knitwear engine: Tirupur exported a record of about Rs 46,000 crore in FY26, roughly 55% of the country’s knitwear trade, and the cluster’s mills spin, knit, dye and sew within twenty kilometres. Ludhiana adds the winter-weight side: fleece, sweats and hoodies.
Cotton rules here, and that is a positioning choice as much as a constraint. India grows its own fiber, leads the world in GOTS-certified facilities, and its recycled-yarn base feeds GRS programs, so natural-fiber and eco athleisure briefs land better than full-synthetic performance lines, where imported technical fabrics narrow the cost edge.
Since February 2026 Indian apparel enters the US at 18%, below competing origins, and Tirupur capacity has been tightening as orders return and Bangladesh programs migrate. Book seasonal drops early: the best flatlock lines fill first.
MOQs scale cleanly: 100 pieces per colour at startup units on stocked fabrics, 300 at private-label specialists, thousands at the mills. FOB for cotton knits runs about $2.20 to $6.00 per piece, sampling takes 5 to 7 working days at the quick units, and 45 days is the safe bulk planning figure.
Quality in activewear is stitch-level: flatlock coverage, seam stretch recovery, lycra handling and shrinkage control. Those are exactly the checks an in-production inspection runs, and why certificates should be verified at the specific unit sewing your order rather than on a marketing page.
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I match every brief to the right specialist hub, Tirupur for knitwear, Panipat for home textiles, Kanpur for leather, then vet the exporters behind the catalogues before a single sample ships.
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