KUSTERS CALICO MACHINERY LIMITED (KCML) is a Joint Venture of Eduard Kusters Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG (EKK) of Germany and Calico Industrial Engineers (Calico) of India.The Kusters Group employees 1300 people in Krefeld and its subsidiaries in Germany , the USA , India and Brazil and has a turnover of DM 400 Million. It has ISO 9001 certification.

Calico was established in 1946 and manufactured textile machines such as Shearing and Cropping, Singeing, Dyeing, Bleaching, Mercerising, Hydraulic Jiggers, Decatising, Yarn, Dyeing, etc. Some of these machines were manufactured with technical assistance of European manufacturers such as Kusters, Menzel, Menschner, Gerber, Ernest Turner (Parex) etc. Many of these machines were exported to East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Thailand, Indonesia, etc.