Mr. Mansukhbhai V. Nagani established Apex group of industries (Now renamed as Pragati Industries) in 1988 at Surat. Because of his Innovative and hard working nature, company got his brand name in just 3 years by selling jacquard, high speed up twister machines in Surat and surrounding textile market in 1992.

Mr. Nagani totally believes in batter quality, high efficiency and low power consumption machinery and also deeply believes in customer satisfaction and after sales service.

He is always enthusiastic about giving new technology to textile market and he has proved himself right by achieving the second prize for quality of product in 2006 Exhibition in Surat. Right now Pragati Industries is manufacturing latest technology yarn processing machinery for all kinds of yarn and therefore company's machinery is successfully running all over India. Pragati Industries has got awesome demand in textile market since 1988 because of high efficient machinery.

Mr. Naresh M. Lakhani is a qualified mechanical engineer by himself and has completed his M. B. A. in marketing from Canada.

He is totally looking after marketing and production in his company and is also a very good communicator. He was also a member of Canadian sales association in Toronto.

Mr. Jignesh M. Lakhani is a qualified Electronics Engineer. He is a young man with a vision as well as knowledge backed by his professional qualification.

He joined Pragati Industries with a definite vision and a set of well identified goals. His aim and focus is on making the operating of his machines as simplified as possible. He also adds that even the maintenance should also be equally simplified and problem free.