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February 2019CONTENT
MARKET REPORT
13- Global Knit Fabric Report by Fact HR
16- Yarn Report by Textile Beacon
17- Surat Report by TVC Reporter
ARTICLES
18- Applications of Big Data in Textile industry by Mr.
Barhanpurkar, SVVV
21- Pigment Printing in Non Woven Fabric by Mrs.
Swati Chavan, DKTE
25- Opportunity for new entrepreneurs in medical
textiles : A Sunrise industry and Role of COE SITRA by
Educationist of SITRA
POST EVENT REPORT
33- MSME’S 100 days summing up Program
34- VJTI’s VASTRA 2019
35- DTG 2019
37- SRTEPC Award , Chairman Speech
39- PRODUCT FOCUS: FONGS
NEWS
40- Messe Frankfurt India and MEX Exhibitions enter
into Strategic Alliance
41- Patent Pending IDOWN Technology
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RETHINK AND RE STRATEGIZE BUSINESS MODEL
FOR INCREMENTAL GROWTH…!
Recently during CEO Conclave in Hydrabad, topic for discussion was as
per title line. Perception of the industry contributors is “our industry is
not very lucrative to invest with less profit margins”. We need to revive,
rejuvenate with rethinking and re strategize on current industry strate-
gies. Few key points discussed:
Market; whether to Focus on Domestic or Exports, what is more lucra-
tive in profit, which state providing more incentives, which market gives
more freedom and creativity etc. So many questions which confuses
the industrialist and start-up companies, where to head on? Solution is
within the company and within self.
Production ; whether to Outsource, Scale- up or import, which state
policy giving more ease of doing business with responsible and com-
mitted business plan. Is Scale the only solution when current manu-
facturing is over capacity in few segments, few clusters are crying and
shutting down their units? Why not Clusters can be optimum utilized
with effective cluster development strategies. Need of the hour is cur-
rent industry to prosper to motivate new investor to enter.
For marketing, logistics, skilling many units using Hub and Spoke Model
which is benefiting to industry, as it reduces production cost and reduc-
es attrition rate. Every state having Textile policy, Investor needs to take
maximum opportunity/ advantage to make a right choice and invest in
the right state as per their customers and work culture of the business.
Research and Innovation is the only key to mark our remarkable pres-
ence in globe. Our industry is comprises of 90% SME’s which don’t have
enough financial capacity to invest in research. Few organized sector
players only investing in research and innovative thinking. For Disrup-
tive innovation, we need introspective approach with less attachment
to business, which opens the doors of creative vision and unlimited
opportunities.
Human Resource ; need to be trained, skilled and make them aware
about the quality requirement and importance of their presence in the
company’s profitability and get motivated to create value to the organi-
zation.
We wish industry to renovate their business with re-strategies for posi-
tive incremental growth.
Wish you Productive Budgeting and Financial Year closing…!
Growth is never by mere
chance; it is the result of
forces working together.”
— James Cash Penney

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Ms. Jigna Shah
Editor and Publisher
EDITORTIAL

NEARLY 50% MARKET SHARES HELD BY
EMERGING PLAYERS
With burgeoning demand for knitted fabrics in the global
clothing and textile industry, a mounting number of man-
ufacturers are entering the market to capitalize on lucra-
tive business opportunities. These new market entrants
and emerging players collectively account for 45-50%
share of the knitted fabrics market. On the other hand,
knitted fabrics market leaders are aiming to gain momen-
tum in the clothing and textile industry by enhancing their
value chains on two fronts – automation and nearshor-
ing. Stagnation in Western markets has consequentially
resulted in new players entering the developing markets
for knitted fabrics. A mounting number of start-ups in the
knitted fabrics market are adopting advanced technolo-
gies to introduce innovative fabrics and gain an edge in
the knitted fabrics market. In addition, small scale pro-
ducers in the knitted fabrics market in developing coun-
tries are also benefitting from favorable regulations and
low labor costs, making their way through the highly-com-
petitive knitted fabrics market.
Notable developments in the knitted fabrics market:
• A leading Italy-based manufacturer of high-qual-
ity knitted fabrics, Luxury Jersey recently announced the
launch of two new fabrics for the luxury segment, in part-
nership with partner Fulgar – an Italian producer of man-
made fibers. The company used Evo by Fulgar, which is a
yarn made from castor oil, in combination with GOTS-cer-
tified organic cotton to manufacture these new fabrics.
The company also announced that the two new fabrics
offer a strong sustainable component in the knitted fab-
rics market, and can be ideal for women’s outwear and
sportswear.
• In February 2018, scientists at Texinov Medical Textiles
– a French manufacturer of warp-knitted textiles, devel-
oped a knitted fabric using laser technology that can be
used in treatments for skin diseases such as actinic kera-
tosis, psoriasis, and acne with light.
• Zaha Hadid Architects and researchers from ETH Zurich
– a science, technology, engineering, and mathematics
University based in Zürich, Switzerland – developed dou-
ble-curved concrete shelled pavilion was made with the
help of KnitCrete – a 3D-knitted formwork. This frame-
work is claimed to have helped in saving material, waste,
and labor for construction by simplifying the construction
process for complex shapes.
The report provides information about knitted fabrics
market structure, key financials, recent competitive de-
velopments, and financial share analysis of leading stake-
holders in the knitted fabrics market. The companies fea-
tured in the report include Guilford Mills, Gehring Tricot
Corporation, Rebtex Inc., Macra Lace Company, Clover
Knits, SAS Textiles, Damodar Menon International Pvt Ltd.,
Krishna Overseas, Jason Mills LLC, and William J Dixon Inc.
State-of-the-Art Technologies Sought-after among
Digitization-driven Knitted Fabrics Manufacturers
Increasing growth of the textile industry has resulted in
creating more lucrative opportunities, thereby attracting
new players to enter the industry. This is leading to in-
tensifying the competition in the knitted fabrics market.
Leading manufacturers are launching more innovative
and high-quality products using next-generation manu-
facturing technologies to bring a new dynamic to the
knitted fabrics market. Increasing adoption of state-of-
the-art technologies to bolster manufacturing of custom
seamless knitwear apparels is becoming increasingly pal-
pable in the knitted fabrics market. Market leaders are
completely digitizing their entire production processes to
further enhance their business productivity and efficien-
cy. Technological assets, such as physical simulation soft-
ware, 3D printing technology, and 3D design software, are
likely to prevail over traditional manufacturing processes
soon in the knitted fabrics market.
Vulnerability to Damages – Prevailing Cost-intensive
Concern for Knitted Fabrics Market Players
Knitted fabrics have been deemed more prone to dam-
age than their woven alternatives, thereby compromising
the utilization efficiency of of the fabric in various appli-
cations. Needle malfunction, mismanagement of machin-
ery, or improper care during the fabric dyeing processes,
are some of the aspects that increase the risk of damage
during knitted fabrics construction In addition, improper
manual handling of knitted fabrics and inspection cuts
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lead to forcing manufacturers to keep an extra buffer
for such damages. This is one of the leading causes be-
hind high overall fabric costs, which is ultimately creating
challenges for stakeholders to mitigate production costs.
Thereby, unavoidable spending on knitted fabric manage-
ment and machine maintenance prove to be costly chal-
lenges for knitted fabrics market players to tackle with.
Medical Textiles – A Lucrative Application Area for
Knitted Fabrics Manufacturers
Both, woven fabrics and knitted fabrics are commonly
used in the healthcare industry as medical textile. How-
ever, textile engineers discovered that knitted fabrics
are more flexible, highly porous than woven fabrics, and
have loose and changeable structural design, thereby
can be used in versatile medical applications. The struc-
ture of knitted fabric can be altered and modified easily
to suit variable requirements of several medical applica-
tions, which is boosting demand for knitted fabrics in the
healthcare industry.
With growing awareness about unique benefits of knitted
fabrics, when they are used as medical textiles, knitting
technologies have emerged to be an integral part of the
healthcare industry. For example, warp knitting technol-
ogy is becoming popular as one of the most economic
technologies used to manufacture thermostatic textiles
used in surgery to maintain patients’ body temperature.
Increasing use of high-tech medical textiles in healthcare
applications is creating numerous lucrative opportunities
for manufacturers in the knitted fabrics market. Leading
market players are likely to adopt next-generation man-
ufacturing technologies to offer knitted medical textiles
that can suit various requirements of medical applica-
tions in the upcoming years.
Knitted Fabric Sales Spur as Manufacturers Empha-
size Technical Performance
Owing to their soft hand-feel and characteristics to of-
fer a perfect fit to the clothing, knitted fabrics find more
demand and maximum applications in nightwear and
lingerie collections. Manufacturers in the knitted fabrics
market are adopting advanced printing technologies to
further enhance the texture and flexibility of knitted fab-
rics to suit the modern requirements in the nightwear
clothing segment. Apart from the offering knitted fabrics
with rich feel, leading players in the knitted fabrics mar-
ket are concentrating on improving performance char-
acteristics of knitted fabrics. Manufacturers are likely to
alter their manufacturing processes to offer better per-
formance characteristics of knitted fabrics, such as resist-
ance to washing and rubbing, functional comfort, and
significant saving on energy and greenhouse emissions,
to expand the scope of knitted fabric applications beyond
lingerie and nightwear segment.
Definition
Knitted fabrics is a type of elastic textiles that are manu-
factured by interlocking yarns with the help of a pair of
needles. Knitted fabrics can be manufactured by two
principal methods – weft knitting and warp knitting. Knit-
ted fabrics are generally comfortable, lightweight, and
can be made more easily and quickly that woven fabrics,
with which they are often used interchangeably.
About the Report
The Fact.MR study is a seamless presentation of unique
insights on how the knitted fabrics market will expand
across the globe during 2018-2027. The utmost objective
of Fact.MR report on knitted fabrics market is to provide
compelling insights on the demand generating factors, dy-
namic aspects, key product developments in the market,
and overall market scenario of the knitted fabrics mar-
ket. The report includes the ultimate predictions about
growth of the knitted fabrics market in terms of market
size (US$ million) and market volume (tons) during the as-
sessment period.
Market Structure
The Fact.MR report divides the knitted fabrics market into
its four broad sub-segments – construction type, fabrics
type, applications, and regions.
Based on the construction types of knitted fabrics, the
knitted fabrics market is segmented into two main cat-
egories – weft knitted fabrics, and wrap knitted fabrics.
Based on the fabric types, the knitted fabrics market is
segmented into flat/jersey, purl fabric, rib stitch, and in-
terlock.
According to the applications of knitted fabrics, the knit-
ted fabrics market is segmented into Agrotech, Build-
tech, Indutech, Sportech, Packtech, Meditech, Clothtech,
and Geotech. Based on geographical regions, the knitted
fabrics market is segmented into North America, Latin
America, Europe, Japan, Asia Pacific region excluding Ja-
pan (APEJ), and the Middle East & Africa (MEA).
Additional Questions Answered
The Fact.MR report presented the latest information on
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knitted fabrics market, which can help market players to
get the hang of prominent growth prospects of the mar-
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ket report can serve as a highly credible source for the
readers, which can help them to understand historical
and forecast data of the knitted fabrics market.
The report on knitted fabrics market also addresses some
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trajectory of knitted fabrics market, which can help read-
ers to make value-based decisions and gain a competitive
edge in the knitted fabrics market space.
The report also helps reading by answering queries about
growth prospects of the knitted fabrics market, which can
help them to plan appropriate strategies for future while
entering the knitted fabrics market. Some of the impor-
tant questions about the knitted fabrics market that are
focused on in the report include
• What are the most common strategies adopted by lead-
ing manufacturers in the knitted fabrics market in devel-
oped regions?
• What is the impact of statistics of the global textile in-
dustry on growth of the knitted fabrics market?
• Which technologies are being used by most manufactur-
ers in the knitted fabrics market?
• Which factors are driving market players to invest heav-
ily in the knitted fabrics market in the Asia Pacific region?
• What are the challenges and restraints that are influenc-
ing growth prospects of the knitted fabrics market?
Research Methodology
The Fact.MR report provides readers with exclusive pre-
dictions about the historic and recent development in the
knitted fabrics market for the period 2018-2027. A unique
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The information featured in the Fact.MR report is ac-
quired by following a unique and in-depth secondary and
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Primary research is carried out to assess growth pros-
pects of the knitted fabrics market, where market players,
including manufacturers, industry experts, distributors,
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ted fabrics market over the forecast time period.
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WTO warns of global trade slowdown
as indicator hits 9-year low.
The index for container port throughput remained rela-
tively buoyant at 100.3, but that may have been influ-
enced by a front-loading of shipments before an antici-
pated hike in U.S.-China tariffs, the WTO said.
Trade tensions, political risks and financial volatility will
continue to pressure global trade, and trade weakness is
likely to extend into the first quarter of 2019, the World
Trade Organization (WTO) cautioned on Tuesday. The
global trade watchdog’s latest World Trade Outlook In-
dicator (WTOI) was 96.3, the weakest since March 2010
and below the baseline value of 100 for the index, sig-
nalling below-trend trade expansion into the first quar-
ter. Readings of 100 indicate growth in line with medium-
term trends; those greater than 100 suggest above-trend
growth, while those below this level show below-trend
growth. “The simultaneous decline of several trade-re-
lated indicators should put policy makers on guard for a
sharper slowdown should the current trade tensions re-
main unresolved,” the organisation said. The WTOI com-
bines several component indices of trade-related data
into a single composite index that anticipates turning
points in world merchandise trade volume. These are ex-
port orders from major economies, air freight, container
throughput, automobile production, electronic compo-
nents and agricultural raw materials. As per the indica-
tor, weakness in the overall index was driven by steep
declines in the component indices, which appear to be
under pressure from heightened trade tensions.
NEWS

COTTONYARN EXPORT DECLINES IN DECEMBER
Cotton export down in December
Cotton exports shipment were down 13% to 12.19 lakh
bales (170 kg each) in December as against 14 lakh bales
exported in the same month of previous marketing year
(2017-18). In December, cotton shipment inched up 5%
YoY in terms of realisation. This implies significant jump
in unit prices realisation of 11% to average INR128.50 per
kg or US cents 83.84 per pound.
Domestic spot prices of benchmark Gujarat Shankar-6
averaged US cents 79.32 per pound while global spot
benchmark, the Cotlook ‘A’ index for December averaged
US cents 84.74 per pound. Bangladesh was the largest im-
porter of Indian cotton in December, followed by China
and Pakistan. Vietnam was the fourth largest importer of
Indian cotton during the month.
Cotton yarn export up 8% in November but at lower
prices
Spun yarns shipment totaled 115 million kg (down 9%)
worth US$345 million (down 8%) implying an aver-age
unit value realization of US$2.88 per kg, up US cents 2
compared to previous month. Meanwhile, the INR against
the US$ weakened to INR69 this December, which had
augured well for exports. China was the largest buyer of
spun yarns, topping both in terms of volume and value.
Cotton yarn export was at 96 million kg worth US$290 mil-
lion (INR2,010 crore), 7% down from previous year’s level
in US$ terms. 79 countries imported cotton yarn from In-
dia at an average price of US$3.02 a kg, up US cent 1 from
previous month and from a year ago.
China continued to cut cotton yarn import from India in
volume and value terms. In December, the decline was
35% year on year. China was followed by Bangladesh with
volume and value rising more than 12% over the year.
Egypt and Vietnam were the other major importers, with
former recording 10% increase and latter 47%. Seven
countries did not import any cotton yarn from India this
December as they had imported yarn worth US$3 million
same month last year. However, they were replaced by 9
other countries which imported yarn worth US$0.4 mil-
lion.
Russia, Algeria, Ghana, Indonesia and Ecuador were
among top five fastest importers of cotton yarn in De-
cember while Argentina, Honduras, Slovenia, North Korea
and Czech Republic significantly reduced their imports
compared to last year.
100% man-made fibre yarns exports declined 16% in De-
cember, comprising 3.2 million kg of polyester yarn, 1.8
million kg of viscose yarn and 1.4 million kg of acrylic yarn.
Polyester yarn exports declined 27% in value while vis-
cose yarn exports value increased 9% during the month.
Acrylic yarn exports were down 19% during the month.
Polyester spun yarns worth US$8.2 million were exported
to 49 countries at average unit price of US$2.56 a kg. Tur-
key was the largest importer of polyester yarn, followed by
USA and Morocco. Unit price realization was up US cents
7 compared to last month and up US cents 16 from last
year. Viscose yarn worth US$6.2 million or INR44 crore
was exported in December at an average price of US$3.50
per kg. Belgium was the top importer worth US$8.96 mil-
lion, followed by Bangladesh and Egypt. Turkey was the
fourth largest importer of viscose yarn during the month.
Blended spun yarns worth US$39 million were exported
in December, down 10% YoY in value terms. During the
month, 6.9 million kg of PC yarns was exported worth
US$19 million while 4 million kg of PV yarns were export-
ed worth US$14 million. Egypt, Bangladesh and Morocco,
were the largest importers of PC yarn from India while
Turkey was the single largest importer of PV yarns from
India followed distantly by South Africa.
Shipment of all kinds of filament yarns totaled 60 million
kg, down 3% YoY valued at US$108 million.
YARN REPORT
NITIN MADKAIKAR
Textile Beacon
nitin@textilebeacon.com

UPSET FOR WEAVERS AS FUND
ALLOCATION UNDER ATUFS RE-
DUCEDTO 700 CR.
In the recently announced interim budget, the Finance
Minister has reduced allocation under Amended Technol-
ogy Upgradation Funds Scheme (ATUFS) to Rs700 crore.
The weavers of the city are upset and belief that moderni-
sation in the power loom industry will come to a grinding
halt as the fund allocation for the scheme has cut by 70%.
The ATUF scheme and Rebate on State Levies (ROSL) have
been reduced from Rs2,300 crore to Rs700 crore and
Rs2,164 crore to Rs1,000 crore, respectively.
The Power Loom ndustry sources said, TUF scheme all-
ways remain attractive in the textile sector. With just
Rs700 crore for the ATUFS, modernization in the textile
industry will be affected. The power loom weavers who
have to repay loan instalment will face a difficult situa-
tion. Backlog in the ATUFS would be over Rs2,000 crore
as over 3,000 projects that got implemented are yet to
receive subsidy due to complicated guidelines of ATUFS.
The government had earlier allocated Rs17,822 crore,
including Rs5,151 crore for ATUFS for the 13th Five Year
Plan in order to clear long-pending committed liability.
Surat based Federation of Gujarat Weavers’ Association
(FOGWA) has given a representation to Textile Minister
to clear the backlog of TUF subsidy. Power loom weav-
ers stated that 1,500 files from Surat are pending for sub-
sidy approval at the textile commissioner’s office under
the ATUFS for 10% subsidy. The weavers had ordered
machinery from foreign countries for taking benefit of
the subsidy. The complicated guidelines of ATUFS have
resulted in non-reimbursement of the subsidy amount
to the weavers. They have demanded a joint inspection
team consisting of textile association, MANTRA and textile
commissioner’s office be formed to hold an open house
with the weavers who are yet to get the subsidy amount.
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RAPIER AND WATERJET LOOMS OWN-
ER WAITING FOR POWER TARIFF SUB-
SIDY
The weavers, who have insttaled latest Rapier and Water-
jet Power looms are eagerly waiting for power tariff sub-
sidy. Last month, the state govt. has declared power tariff
subsidy in the New textile policy(Sept.-18 to Sept.-23). It
has implemented subsidy in power tariff, which allows
up to Rs3 per unit for weaving and Rs2 per unit for other
eligible segments, including textile mills etc. The weavers
are still paying electricity tariff at old rates as the elec-
trisity distribution companies have refused to give power
subsidy stating that they are yet to get government noti-
fication about it.
Mayurbhai Golwala, secretary of Federation of Gujarat
Weavers Welfare Association (FOGWA) said, The power
tariff subsidy is for new machines installed in the textile
sector. In the last one year, power loom weavers have
invested Rs1,000 crore in installing Rapier and Waterjet
looms, but they are not getting power subsidy which was
announced by the state government. Despite Gujarat
Government announcing subsidy in power tariff for weav-
ing and textile mills in the new textile policy, the power
distribution companies are not passing on the benefit
stating they are yet to receive any circular or notification
in this regard from the authorities. The weaving units and
textile mills are paying bills at the old rates.
The weavers of the city are demanding same power tariff
subsidy for existing units. More than 25,000 units are run-
ning in the industrial area near the city. The weavers are
arguing that to avoid unhealthy competition, the govern-
ment should have to consider old and new machines in
the same category.
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Election campaign : Textile traders
Printing Modi, Priyanka’s images on
sarees and bill-books
Before Lok Sabha elections, the textile traders of the city
have already started campaigning for their favourite lead-
ers. Colourful sarees with the faces of Narendra Modi, Ra-
hul and Priyanka Gandhi are the new creations this elec-
tion season at this popular saree market.
BJP supporters traders here are bating for Prime Minister
Narendra Modi and have already started campaigning.
The Modi sarees were printed and distributed across the
country in 2014. Now, before general election of 2019, the
BJP supporters textile traders are printing digital photos
of PM Narendra Modi on saree.
Congress supporters are also trying to take the same
route. They are printing Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi’s im-
ages on sarees.
Surat is one of the largest saree markets in Asia and sa-
rees from here are distributed across the country. The
Surat saree market sends its sarees across the country,
which is why political parties flock the shops as a means
to reach out to people and campaign for the elections.
Besides saree, Many textile traders have printed bill-books
and challans with pictures of PM with slogans ‘Namo Lao
Desh Bachao’ ‘Namo Again’, ‘Vote for BJP’ etc. These trad-
ers are issuing bills to their counterparts across the coun-
try appealing them to bring Modi back to power in 2019.
There are over 165 textile markets in the city housing
over 65,000 textile shops. The daily turnover of the saris
and dress material is pegged at Rs 110 crore.
SURAT REPORT

“BIG DATA” CONCEPT
APPLICATIONS OF BIG DATA INTEXTILE INDUSTRY
Abstract
The concept of big data includes analyzing capacious data
to extract valuable information. In the textile world, big
data is increasingly playing a part in trend estimating,
analyzing consumer performance, preference. The pur-
pose of this paper is to introduce the term textile data
and why it can be considered as big data. It also gives a
broad classification of the types of textile data and brief-
ly defines them. Also, the methodology and working of
a system that will use this data is briefly described. Big
data refers to a process that is used when traditional data
mining and handling techniques cannot uncover the in-
sights and meaning of the underlying data. Data that is
unstructured or time sensitive or simply very large cannot
be processed by relational database engines. This type of
data requires a different processing approach called big
data. This approach can be utilized for analyzing the infor-
mation relating to spinning, weaving, chemical process-
ing and in garment sector. This segment will definitely
enhance the value addition in technological development
and interpretate to solve the problems of the process.
Even than very negligent researches are available in this
field but it’s a lastly growing field and smartly ulilzed in the
textile sector. In this research paper some information
have been reviewed and tried to described for research-
ers and technologists.
Keywords: Big Data, Cyber Physical Systems(CPS), Digi-
tal Textile, Textile Data.
1.Introduction
Modern manufacturing facilities are data-rich environ-
ments that support the transmission, sharing and anal-
ysis of information across ubiquitous networks to pro-
duce manufacturing intelligence. The potential benefits
of manufacturing intelligence include improvements in
operational efficiency, process innovation, and environ-
mental impact, to name a few. However, similar to other
industries and domains, the current information systems
that support business and manufacturing intelligence are
being tasked with the responsibility of storing increas-
ingly large data sets (i.e. Big Data), as well as associate
the real-time processing of this ‘Big Data’ using advanced
analytics. The predicted exponential growth in data pro-
duction will be a result of an increase in the number of
instruments that record measurements from physical
environments and processes, as well as an increase in
the frequency at which these devices record and persists
measurements. The technologies that transmit this raw
data will include legacy automation and sensor networks,
in addition to new and emerging paradigms, such as the
Internet of Things (IoT) and Cyber Physical Systems (CPS)
and Artificial Intelligence(AI). The low-level granular data
captured by these technologies can be consumed by ana-
lytics and modelling applications to enable manufactur-
ers to develop a better understanding of their activities
and processes to derive insights that can improve ex-
isting operations. Big data, as the name suggests, is an
enormous amount of data. It can be defined by the 4V’s
– Volume, Velocity, Variety, and Veracity. This 4V’s are re-
sponsible for complete functioning and analysis of data
to obtain required output. The ability to analyze this enor-
mous amount of data is known as big data analytics. The
analysis of big data makes valuable conclusions by con-
verting the data into statistics, that otherwise could not
be exposed using less data and old-style methods.
Figure 1. The four V’s of big data
To deal with this, the industry has experienced a shift from
mass production to mass customization, which is simply
customization at mass production efficiency. There are
many technologies that help the industry in creating new
ways for satisfying the ever-growing and ever-changing
needs of the customer. There are, however, many chal-
lenges when it comes to adapting the production process
as complexity increases with the level of customization.
Another problem with mass customization is that, the
customer is unaware of her/his needs and mostly lack
professional design knowledge. Due to this, most mass
customized products are not as desired, and hence, the
customer is rendered dissatisfied. Thus, the requirement
of a personal style advisor arises; to help the customer
in finding a garment that satisfies her/his needs. Since,
everything is going on the web, so there are virtual style
advisors available. Most of them are not affordable by
every customer. For this, the recommendation systems
were introduced. These systems offer the customer rec-
ommendations during the process of designing. They can
be based on collaborative filtering, wherein the system
recommends on the basis of the preferences of a group
of users; content based filtering, wherein the system uses
user profile to match an item. This requires ratings given
to a product directly by the user.

2.Importance of Big Data
The importance of big data does not revolve around how
much data a company has but how a company utilises the
collected data. Every company uses data in its own way;
the more efficiently a company uses its data, the more
potential it has to grow. The company can take data from
any source and analyse it to find answers which will en-
able:
i. Cost Savings: Some tools of Big Data like Hadoop and
Cloud-Based Analytics can bring cost advantages to
business when large amounts of data are to be stored
and these tools also help in identifying more efficient
ways of doing business.
ii. Time Reductions: The high speed of tools like Ha-
doop and in-memory analytics can easily identify new
sources of data which helps businesses analyzing
data immediately and make quick decisions based on
the learnings.
iii. New Product Development: By knowing the trends
of customer needs and satisfaction through analyt-
ics you can create products according to the wants of
customers.
iv. Understand the market conditions: By analyzing big
data you can get a better understanding of current
market conditions. For example, by analyzing custom-
ers’ purchasing behaviors, a company can find out the
products that are sold the most and produce prod-
ucts according to this trend. By this, it can get ahead
of its competitors.
v. Control online reputation: Big data tools can do
sentiment analysis. Therefore, you can get feedback
about who is saying what about your company. If you
want to monitor and improve the online presence of
your business, then, big data tools can help in all this.
3. Textile big data
All the data associated with a textile product is hence
called as textile data. This data can have used for trend
analysis, customer behavior analysis, forecasting etc.
Textile industry generates and creates various sources of
data. All these data come in various forms like words, im-
ages etc. Since it is the era of fast textile, the data is rapidly
growing and changing. Hence, this data can be termed as
fabric big it portrays all the features of big data. Following
is a broad classification of the textile data -
i. Material: This includes the fabric that is used to make
a textile product. The fabric has various characteristics
like yarn type, yarn count, yarn twist, weft & warp density,
weave structure etc. To achieve different types of fab-
ric, one or more of these are changed. This enormously
changes the appearance and had of the fabric, which cor-
relate to emotions, textile themes, colors etc.
ii. Textile Design: It is the knowledge about the elements
& principles of design, which combined together, gives
the design of a textile product. The design of a product
is mostly influenced by human emotions, textile themes,
occasion of wear etc.
iii. Body Data: The body data can be in the form 2D or 3D
data. For 2D, it is collected using the conventional meth-
od of body measurement. For 3D, it is collected 3D body
scanners. These data can provide information like body
measurement & body type.
iv. Color: Color preference is an important aspect that in-
fluences a gamut of human behavior. Kobayashi’s color
image scale states that color can have three attributes –
warm or cool, soft or hard, clear or grayish, which asso-
ciate with hue, chroma & value. These attributes can be
linked with the emotion
v. Technical/Production design: The technical design al-
lows the producer to understand that how the product
will be made. This makes the design of a product produc-
tion friendly. It includes knowledge of pattern making,
sewing etc. To extract knowledge from these data, they
have to be linked together. The next section describes the
proposed system that will use this data.
Figure 2. Data in Textile
4.Proposed System
The proposed system (figure 3) is a combination of the
knowledge based recommender system and a search
engine. It takes from engine the ability to provide the
customer with an option to write her/his query and with
the help of the recommender system, offer a product to
the customer. The system will have the knowledge bases
mentioned in section 3. These bases will help in removing
the cold start problem. The working of the system will be
such that the customer can select a garment silhouette
and provide his measurements, now the system will rec-
ommend a material, color, design which matches best the
garment type selected as well as that looks best on the
body type (to be identified using the measurements pro-
vided by the customer). If the customer likes the recom-
mendations she/he can choose to order the garment, or
else the system will improve its suggestions. The method-
ology to be followed to build the system is also presented

in figure 3. In this methodology an algorithm has been
designed in such a way that on inputting the customer
requirements such as garment type and 2D body image
about the preferred product on which provides recom-
mendation about color range, fabric and style format. Af-
terwards, a virtual designer on basis on big data applica-
tions it will show other functionalities which are related to
body scan, design knowledge etc. If the conditions are ful-
filled the new design will create successfully. In this way
methodology will work.
Fig 3. An overview of the proposed system for textile data
5.Goal of Big Data Tools:
Big Data tools are used for the analysis of the huge and
complex data. Many organizations have now taken Big
Data not just a buzz-word but a new technique for im-
proving business. Organizations have to analyze mixed
structured, semi structured or unstructured data. This is
dons in search of useful business and market informa-
tion and insights. Big data analytics helps organize this
data for the organizations. Organizations have to analyze
mixed structured, semi structured or unstructured data.
This is dons in search of useful business and market infor-
mation and insights. Big data analytics helps organize this
data for the organizations. Big data analytics is the pro-
cess of examining large data sets containing a variety of
data types -- i.e., big data to uncover hidden patterns, un-
known correlations, market trends, customer preferenc-
es and other useful business information. The analytical
findings can lead to more effective marketing, new rev-
enue opportunities, better customer service, improved
operational efficiency, competitive advantages over rival
organizations and other business benefits.
6. Conclusion
The study introduces the term textile data and why it can
be termed as big data. It also presents the classification of
the data and briefly defines each
one of them. In addition to this, a system is
proposed that will use this data to provide
the customer with a mass customization
service. This methodology and working of
the proposed system is briefly described.
The future work involves the collection of the textile data,
creating knowledge bases, establishing a link between those
knowledge bases and connection it to the search engine.
7. Future Scope
Besides textile industry people, technology vendors are
playing significant role in transforming the digital textile in-
dustry. Leaving behind popular social media forums, firms
like SAP offer high-speed analytical tools which allow you to
turn good volume of data into real business value, in just a
blink of an eye. Big Data Analytics of textile product suppli-
ers can also be leveraged to have good understanding on
trends and ideas, which are persisting among audience, and
those which are on the verge of being forgotten. Using such
insights, designers make necessary adjustments in their
products, change their marketing strategies, and then launch
their fine collections in the market. Thus, Big Data influences
key decisions related to manufacturing textile products, and
helps both the industry leaders and their targets to know
each other, and jointly cooperate in taking the digital textile
industry accelerative.
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KANISHK BARHANPURKAR Department of Computer
Science, SAIT, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
SHYAM BARHANPURKAR Department of Textile
Technology, SVVV, Indore, MP state, India

TECHNICAL ARTICLE
PIGMENT PRINTING ON NONWOVEN FABRIC
Abstract:
Nonwoven fabrics are the simplest textile fabrics. Con-
sidering the environmental aspect now a days nonwoven
fabrics are getting preferred in the packaging industry as
well for variety of applications instead of polyethylene ma-
terial. This study consists of printing of needle punched
non-woven viscose rayon fabrics considering the ease
of application of pigments for coloration of textile sub-
strates. The viscose non-woven fabrics were printed with
pigment using binder by varying the pigment to binder ra-
tio and polymerizing was carried out at two different tem-
peratures. The prints were tested for colour yield and rub-
bing fastness properties (dry & wet). It was observed that
with increasing the concentration of binders the depth of
the pigment prints gets increased also the fastness prop-
erties get improved.
Key words: Nonwoven fabric, Packaging, Viscose Rayon,
Pigment, Binder, Rubbing fastness
1.Introduction:
Nonwoven fabrics are the simplest textile fabrics. Its
classic example is felt. The first well documented discov-
ery of felt dates back 3500-3000 BC. It was made from
hairs of various animals. The term “Nonwoven fabrics”
was applied to new modern techniques, which were total-
ly based on new principles, by U.S.A. in 1965. “Non-woven
fabrics” is being defined into different ways by different
literatures; the term defined by “Textile oregano” in 1965
is as follows:
“Nonwoven fabrics are products made of parallel laid,
cross laid or randomly laid webs bonded with application
of adhesive or thermoplastic fibre under application of
heat and pressure.”
Pigments are substance in particular forms. They are
essentially, insoluble in the media into which they are in-
corporated, and are mechanically dispersing there in or-
der to modify the colour and light scattering properties of
such media.
In other words nonwoven fabric can be simply defined as
a fabric those can be produced by a variety of processes
other than weaving and knitting.
The nonwoven fabric properties depends on following
particulars to an great extent,
1. The choice of fibers.
2. Technology which determines how the fibers are to be
arranged.
3. The bonding process and the bonding agent.
Fabric properties of nonwovens range from crisp to that
soft-to-the –touch to harsh, impossible-to-tear to ex-
tremely weak. This leads to a wide range of end prod-
ucts such as nappies, filters, teabags, geotextiles, etc.
some of which are durable and others are disposable.
The first stage in the manufacturing process of nonwoven
fabrics is “production of web” and another is “bonding of
web by using several methods”. Some of those (binding
methods) are felting, adhesive bonding, thermal bonding,
stitch bonding, needle punching, hydro-entanglement
and spin laying.
1.1 Rayon: In the man-made fiber, rayon (viscose) has
been the leader in bringing about changes in the industry
and today finds practical use in a wide variety of fabrics.
Nonwoven viscose rayon fabric can be used as an alter-
native to polyethylene based packaging materials, bags
since it can be processed easily and available in variety of
descriptions.
1.2 Printing: Printing improves the appearance and aes-
thetic value of the substrate. Dyes and pigments are gen-
erally used for printing textile substrate. Pigments are
substance in particular forms. They are essentially, insol-
uble in the media into which they are incorporated, and
are mechanically dispersed there in order to modify the
color and light scattering properties of such media. Pig-
ment printing on textile substrate offers prints with good
economy and easy application conditions.
1.2.1 Pigment printing on Viscose Nonwoven fabric: Pig-
ments are insoluble in water and do no affinity for the
textile substrate. Pigment printing is most economical
printing process which allows maximum output of goods
because of the elimination of washing off and thereby re-
duces the effluent generation. It is popular due to quick
sampling and high printing speeds.
1.3 BINDER
• Since pigments do not have affinity for textile substrate
those are bound with textile substrate with the help of
binder. Binder actually holds the pigment particles and
sandwich it between fabric surface and its transparent
three dimensional polymeric elastic film which is formed
during polymerization at elevated temperature.
• In addition to binder another component is also added
to the textile pigment printing paste and that is called fix-
er. Fixers are mostly urea formaldehyde pre-condensates
which help in improving rubbing fastness of pigment by
strengthening of binder cross links to hold pigment on the
textile substrate.
2.Plan of work:
2.1 Material:- Viscose needle punched nonwoven fabric
80 gsm

TECHNICAL ARTICLE
2.2 Chemical:-Commercially available Red and Blue Pig-
ment, Acrylic based Binder and synthetic thickener, Diam-
monium phosphate, Urea of L.R grade
2.3 Equipments:- Printing table, Wooden baby Screen
12”x12”, Mechanical stirrer of 3000 rpm, Laboratory sten-
ter machine, Drier, Computer Colour matching system
Macbeth Colour Eye-3000, Crock Meter
2.4 Print Recipe:- The pigment pastes were prepared by
using following formulations.
Formulation -1 Formulation -2 Formulation -3
Pigment 1 g 2 g 4 g
Binder X1 /X2/ X3 g X1 /X2/ X3 g X1 /X2/ X3 g
DAP 5 g 5 g 5 g
Urea 3 g 3 g 3 g
Fixer CCL 1 g 1 g 1 g
Water 5 ml (if re-
quired)
5 ml (if re-
quired)
5 ml (if re-
quired)
Synthetic
thickener
Remaining Remaining Remaining
Total 100 gm 100 g 100 g
X1 /X2/ X3 stands for varied Pigment to binder ratio as-
1:2, 1:3 and 1:5respectively.
2.5 Process Sequence :
Printing Drying olymerization (at 140 and 1500
C for
4 min)
2.6 Testing :
The colour strength (K/S values) of pigment prints was
measured on Macbeth computer colour matching system
and Rubbing fastness (dry and wet) of the prints was as-
sessed on Crock meter.
3. Results and Discussion
3.1 Effect of binder to pigment ratio and temperature on
colour strength of Red pigment:
Table number 1 indicates the effect of binder to pigment
ratio and temperature on colour strength of Red pigment.

% Colour Pigment to
binder ratio
Colour strength
Curing Temperature
1400
C 1500
C
1% 1:2 7.52 7.66
1:3 7.81 7.89
1:5 7.97 8.05
2% 1:2 8.51 8.62
1:3 8.63 8.77
1:5 8.84 9.03
4% 1:2 11.21 11.42
1:3 11.34 11.59
1:5 11.62 11.74
Table no.1
The results from table no 1 and Graph No. 1 indicate the
effect of pigment to binder ratio and polymerization tem-
perature on the colour yield of red pigment. The K/S value
of 1% concentration of pigment for the pigment to binder
ratio 1:2 is 7.52 and that of for 1:3 and 1:5 ratio are 7.81
and 7.97 at 1400C polymerization temperature. For the
same concentration the K.S values at 1500
C are 8.05, 8.62
and 8.77 respectively. Thus there is significant increase in
the colour strength of red pigment with increasing binder
concentration and polymerization temperature. This can
be attributed to the fact that 1:5 ratio of pigment to bind-
er shows higher colour yield where good cross linking of
binder is achieved and prints are brighter.
3.2 Effect of binder to pigment ratio and temperature
on colour strength of Blue pigment:
ratio and temperature on colour strength of Blue pig-
ment.

% Colour Pigment
to binder
ratio
Colour strength
Curing Temperature
1400
C 1500
C
1% 1:2 12.53 12.81
1:3 12.86 13.09
1:5 13.02 13.14
2% 1:2 14.01 14.08
1:3 14.18 14.29
1:5 14.32 14.54
4% 1:2 15.03 15.21
1:3 15.19 15.37
1:5 15.23 15.49
The results from table no 2 and Graph no.2 indicate

the effect of pigment to binder ratio and polymerization
temperature on the colour yield of blue pigment. The K.S
value of 1% concentration of pigment for the pigment to
binder ratio 1:2 is 12.53 and that of for 1:3 and 1:5 ratio
are 12.86 and 13.02 at 1400
C polymerization tempera-
ture. For the same concentration the K.S values at 1500
C
are 12.81, 13.09 and 13.14 respectively. Thus there is sig-
nificant increase in the colour strength of blue pigment
with increasing binder concentration and polymerization
temperature. This can be attributed to the fact that 1:5 ra-
tio of pigment to binder shows higher colour yield where
good cross linking of polymeric film of binder is achieved
and prints are brighter.
on rubbing fastness of Red Pigment:
ratio and temperature on rubbing fastness properties of
Red pigment.
%
Col-
our
Pig-
ment
to
binder
ratio
Rubbing Fastness
rating (Dry)
Rubbing Fastness
rating (Wet)
Curing Tempera-
ture
Curing Tempera-
ture
1400
C 1500
C 1400
C 1500
C
1% 1:2 3-4 3-4 2 1-2
1:3 3-4 3-4 2-3 2-3
1:5 4 4 3 3
2% 1:2 3 3 2 1-2
1:3 3 3-4 2-3 2-3
1:5 3-4 4 3 2-3
4% 1:2 2-3 3 2 1-2
1:3 3-4 3 2 2
1:5 4 4 3 2-3
1:5 4 4 3 2-3
Table no. 3
Results from table no.3 show that the dry rubbing fast-
ness properties of red pigment at 1% concentration with
pigment to binder ratio 1:2 is 3-4 when polymerization is
carried out at 1400
C and that of 1:3 and 1: 5 ratio are 3-4
and 4 respectively. This indicates that with increasing pig-
ment to binder ratio, dry and wet rubbing fastness prop-
erties of pigment get improved which can be attributed to
the fact that the increased ratio ensures better cross link-
ing of binder polymeric film because of increased cross
linking sites and there by enhance the rubbing fastness
properties. Similar trend was observed in the case of wet
rubbing fastness at all pigment concentration levels.
on rubbing fastness of Blue Pigment:
ratio and temperature on rubbing fastness properties of
Blue pigment
% Col-
our
Pig-
ment to
binder
ratio
Rubbing Fast-
ness rating
(Dry)
Rubbing Fast-
ness rating (Wet)
Curing Tem-
perature
Curing Tempera-
ture
1400
C 1500
C 1400
C 1500
C
1% 1:2 3-4 3-4 2 2
1:3 3-4 3-4 2-3 2-3
1:5 4 4 3 3
2% 1:2 3 3 2 2
1:3 3 3-4 2-3 2-3
1:5 3-4 4 3 3
4% 1:2 2-3 3 2 2
1:3 3-4 3-4 2-3 2-3
1:5 4 4 3 3
TECHNICAL ARTICLE
Table no 4
Results from table no.4 show that the dry rubbing fast-
ness properties of blue pigment at 1% concentration with
pigment to binder ratio 1:2 is 3-4 when polymerization is
carried out at 1400
C and that of 1:3 and 1: 5 ratio are 3-4
and 4 respectively. This indicates that with increasing pig-
ment to binder ratio, dry and wet rubbing fastness prop-
erties of pigment get improved which can be attributed to
the fact that the increased ratio ensures better cross link-
ing of binder polymeric film because of increased cross
linking sites and three by enhance the rubbing fastness
properties.
Similar trend was observed in the case of wet rubbing
fastness at all pigment concentration levels.
4. Conclusion:
From the results it can be concluded that,

1. Nonwoven fabric has greater share in market and con-
sidering the environmental aspect it is considered as sub-
stitute for plastic packaging material.
2. The packaging material made of nonwovens can be
made attractive by printing process.
3. Since pigment printing offers prints with better print
economy and ease of application, printed nonwovens
have more demand in market.
4. Nonwoven fabric printed with pigment exhibited bright-
er prints with increased colour yield which was measured
in terms of K/S value with increasing pigment to binder
ratio. 1:5 ratios produce brighter prints of increased col-
our yield as compared with 1:2 and 1:3 ratios.
4. The dry and wet rubbing fastness properties of pig-
ments were also found improved with increasing pigment
to binder ratio.
5. Pigment to binder ratio of 1:3 and 1:5 can be recom-
mended for printing nonwoven fabrics using pigments.
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TECHNICAL ARTICLE

OPPORTUNITIES FOR NEW ENTREPRENEURS IN MEDICALTEXTILES - A
SUN RISE INDUSTRY AND ROLE OF CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE SITRA IN
PROMOTION OF MEDICALTEXTILES
Abstract
India is the second largest player in textiles after China.
But when it comes to technical textiles where almost 16
different fields have been identified, India is still an infant.
Medical textiles is one of the fastest growing technical tex-
tile fields in India and across the globe. Medical textiles is
a sunrise industry. Medical textiles comprises of as simple
products such as wipes to life saving and more complex
products such as vascular grafts. India being second larg-
est populous country in the world, with more baby birth
rates and increase in average lifespan, the demand for
medical textiles is going to increase year on year. Moreo-
ver, capabilities to produce cost effective medical textile
products opens up doors of the international market also.
The paper presents an introduction, classification, scope
and challenges in the field of medical textiles.
Key Words: Technical Textiles, Medical Textiles, Oppor-
tunities, Market
1. INTRODUCTION
Medical textiles is one of the fastest growing technical
textile fields in India. Technical textiles are the textiles
developed and manufactured textiles to meet specific
functional properties for specific end use, engineered re-
quired by combining properties of different textile struc-
tures and materials. Below is the Classification list of tech-
nical textiles:
yy Medical textiles : hygiene and medical (Healthcare
Textiles)
yy Agro Tech : agriculture, aquaculture, horticulture and
forestry
yy Build Tech : building and construction
yy Cloth Tech : technical components of footwear and
clothing
yy Geo Tech : geotextiles and civil engineering
yy HomeTech : technical components of furniture, house-
hold textiles
yy Indu Tech : filtration, conveying, cleaning and other
industrial uses
yy MobilTech : automobiles, shipping, railways and aero-
space
yy Oeko Tech : environmental protection
yy Pack Tech : packaging components
yy Pro Tech : personal and property protection
yy Sport Tech : sport and leisure
2. Classification of medical textile products
Medical textiles are those technical textiles in day to day
life for maintaining hygienic & health conditions as well
as in assisting / performing medical | surgical procedure
including inplantables.
yy Corresponding author: coemed@sitra.org.in; lab.bd@
sitra.org.in.
Medical textiles can be divided into:
1) Consumer products – Eg: Sanitary napkins, baby dia-
pers, wipes, adult diapers
2) Hospital products – Eg: Surgical gowns, surgical drapes
Medical textiles is classified into 5 categories
• Implantable :- inside the patient’s body
• Non-Implantable :- on the patient’s body
• Extracorporeal device :- Besides the patient’s body
• Healthcare textiles :- For the body (Usually hospital
products)
• Hygiene textiles :- for the body (Usually consumer
products)
2.1 List of products in all sectors
3. Features of medical textiles
The desired features of medical textiles would be
• High levels of breathability/Non breathability/barrier
performance
• Hydrophilic/ Hydrophobic
• Broad spectrum of antimicrobial resistance such as
bacteria, viral, fungal, mould resistance etc
• Biocompatibility
• Cell adhesion/Cell non-adhesion surface
• 2 D & 3 D structures
• Sterilability
Hygiene and
Healthcare
Medical Textiles
Non-
Implantable
Medical
Textiles
Implantable Medical
Textiles
Extracorporeal
Medical Textiles
1. Surgical
gown/drapes
2. Surgical
facemasks
3. Beddings,
blankets, sheets,
pillow covers.
4. Feminine
hygiene products
5. Wet wipes
6. Adult
incontinence
diapers
7. Underpads
1. Compression
stockings
2. Wound
dressings
3. Waddings
4. Tubular
bandages
5. Gauze
6. Pressure
garments
1. Vascular grafts
2. Abdominal wall
patches/meshes
3. Sutures
4. Heart patches/valves
5. Stents: pet
monofilament
6. Tendon/ligament
reinforcements
7. Dura patches (Non-
woven)
8. Artificial veins
9. Artificial joints and
bones
10. Artificial skin and
artificial cartilage
1. Hemodialysis
2. Artificial liver
3. Extracorporeal
membrane
oxygenation
4. Artificial heart
5. HME filter
6. Leukodepletion
filter
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• Biodegradable/Non biodegradable
• Elasticity/non elasticity
• Strength
4. Textile structure in Medical textiles
Medical textile products can be made from each stage of
textile manufacturing. Textiles structuring is broadly di-
vided into 4 categories: - fabric, yarn, fabric and garments.
Product such as surgical cotton, wadding, ear buds, etc.,
is produced directly from textile fibres. Products such as
sutures, heart valve stitching thread, dental floss, dialysis
membrane filaments produced gram filament / yarn etc.
In fabric structure there is further classification in terms of
woven (vascular graft, reusable bed sheets & pillow cov-
ers), non woven (surgical gowns, disposable bed sheets &
pillow covers), knitted (vascular graft, hernial mash, heart
patch fabric), braded (Anterior cruciate ligament sutures
etc), (rotator cuff). All the operational theatre garments
come under stitched garment products (surgical gowns,
bed sheets, etc), products made up of different textile
structure (sanitary napkin/under pad, fibers of non wo-
ven, wound dressing – fibers + woven/non woven/knitted
structure, etc.
5. Overall opportunities in medical textiles
Opportunities lies in technical textile machine manufac-
turing, specialised raw material manufacturing, setting up
laboratories to test these materials /products, manpower
training, etc.
• Many medical textile products are imported and not
manufactured in India, so there is a huge potential for
manufacturing them in India. Many medical textiles prod-
ucts are classified as medical devices. There is no con-
crete data available for medical textiles, but 80% of medi-
cal devices are imported.
• Though India is the second most populous country, the
penetration of medical textiles is very less in India due
to factors such as less awareness among people, cost of
products and non availability of many products to com-
mon people. But now the usage of medical technical tex-
tiles is increasing due to the new generation with a higher
disposable income, more education, easy access to me-
dia/internet.
• Higher child birthrates - mother and child.
• Medical tourism - Cost of getting treated is cheaper and
faster compared to the developed countries.
• More modern hospitals are coming up, so growth of
medical textiles is proportional by hiked with growth of
medical business.
• Increased awareness for Medical insurance. Medical in-
surance companies insist hospitals to maintain a proper
environment to reduce risk of HAI.
• The shift in Indian culture to western influence and glo-
balisation has created / helped in creating more aware-
ness about usage of medical textiles in day-to-day life
such as wipes, sanitary napkins, diapers to maintain
cleanliness & hygiene environment.
• Many medical textiles are used for maintaining an hy-
gienic environment. Young Indians are interested in more
comfort and cleanliness.
• Availability of almost all basic raw materials in India.
• Mandating suggestions by GOI in different ministries
such as MoD, MoHFW, MoLE, MoR, MoHA.
• Government initiatives by creating centres of excellence
in different fields of technical textiles. Formation of Cen-
tre of excellence for medical textile at SITRA has helped
industry in many areas such as R&D, standard formation,
testing/ characterisation etc.
• Proactive approach of government towards boosting
TT sectors by different government scheme for business
community in terms of subsidies, special zones (Meditech
zone, Visakhapatnam), ATUF, TMTT, etc as well as promo-
tion of the TT scheme by every state government.
• Government is planning to mandate a few products as
per BIS standards; this will help to eliminate usage of sub-
standard products (manufactured or imported).
• Creating awareness such as distribution of free napkins
by many NGOs as well as government agencies
• Cheap labour and abundance of manpower, cheap pow-
er compared to many countries can help manufacturing
cheaper medical textile products.
•Mandating purchase from MSMEs
• Schemes such as Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, Ayushman
Bharat.
• M/C manufacturing for medical textiles such as Sanitary
napkin making ,face mask making m/c etc have poten-
tial to grow huge.
6. Sector wise opportunities in medical textiles
Concept
Commodity

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6.1 Implantable
Usually not many life saving products are manufactured
in India. India is almost fully dependant on imports. Ul-
timately, very costly products are not affordable to an
average Indian. If invented and manufactured by Indian
companies, the cost may come down drastically. Lives of
many Indians can be saved. Though the demand is low
and the regulatory requirements are stringent, the profit
margins are high.
6.2 Non-implantable
These are the products that are used on the skin. Low
profit but high demand.
6.3 Extracorporeal devices
Same as Implantable life saving and again very costly
products dependent highly on imports. Though the de-
mand is low and the regulatory requirements are strin-
gent, the profit margins are high.
6.4 Hygiene textiles
Not much dependant on imports but still MNCs of foreign
origin have considerable stake compared to the Indian
manufacturers. Demand is high and investment required
is low.
6.5 Healthcare textiles
Not much dependant on imports but still MNCs of for-
eign origin have considerable stake compared to Indian
manufacturers. Demand is high and investment required
is low.
7.Challenges for medical textile business
• Medical device products may require license to produce
or sell products in India (New medical device rule is
implemented recently).
• And still classification of medical textiles under different
categories as medical devices will take time.
• Still many medical products are needed to be classified
as medical devices. It may have impact on the small
scale industry.
• Lack of standards - So far, SITRA has identified many
medical textile products and have developed stand-
ards for those.
• Non availability of expertise for the manufacture of spe-
cialised raw materials Kevlar, Nylon66, Aramid, etc.,
and machinery manufacturing techniques in India.
• Lack of interest, awareness and confidence among big
industries to enter into the Medical Textile business.
• Scattered industry.
• Lack of trained skilled manpower with interdisciplinary
knowledge.
• Disposal of medical textile wastes.
• Cheap import from neighbouring countries such as
Bangladesh, China due to reasons such as lack of BIS
standards.
8.Initiatives required
Government can incentivize manufacturing in terms of a)
Converting and b) Rolled goods manufacturing for devel-
opment of more customized entrepreneurial activity. An
entire ecosystem of R&D, market linkages (treaty), incu-
bation services, easy terms in technology development
and manufacturing for global markets can be developed
1.Development of new Infrastructure; more specialized
zones such as Medtech Zone in Visakhapatnam.
2. Focus on Indian IPR regime
• The Government should strengthen India’s IPR regime
through development of highly equipped patent offices
and provision of online patent filing facility.
3. More tax incentives & subsidies by government from
raw materials to final production, machine imports, ma-
chine spares and machine manufacturing
4. Organising or funding to organize more buyers to seller
meets at domestic exhibitions as well as international lev-
els.
5. Identifying the potential and existing medical textile
manufacturing clusters and help them to produce, test
and market their products
6. Incentivise MSMEs who are making medical textiles by
offering benefits under schemes such as TUF.
7. For a better entrepreneurial resurgence, incentives
should be provided to develop more indigenous ma-
chines. Subsidy to develop machines and technology and
offering the same at rebated rates for easy paybacks for
the startups.
9. Statistics on medical textiles in India
The total market size of medical textiles was $600 mil-
lion in 2014 and reached $780 million by 2017 growing at
8-9% CAGR.
In 2014, surgical dressings and surgical sutures alone
accounted for more than 50 per cent at $380. Universal
health coverage scheme, 100 per cent FDI under auto-
matic route and support to PPP model to improve avail-
ability of health care services are among the initiatives
which will have an impact on consumption.
The medical textile market in India was at around $600
million in 2014, of which surgical dressings and surgical
sutures alone accounted for about more than 50 per cent
at $380. Universal health coverage scheme, 100 per cent
FDI under automatic route and support to PPP model to
improve availability of health care services are among the
initiatives which will impact consumption (Medical textiles
set to grow at 9% CAGR in India, ITJ, September, 2015).
The market for medical textiles, segment-wise is given
in the following table. (R. Alagirusamy and A. Das, 2010,
Technical textile yarns-Industrial and medical applica-

S.No
Product Name Enduse Product Image
1 Orthopedic
Shoe Insoles
The developed product
reduces the risk of foot
ulcer in diabetes patients
2 Hernia Mesh A warp knitted mesh fabric
helps to fasten the hernia
and enhance the healing
process
3 Cut resistant
garments
The cut resistant garment
protects the wearer against
injuries caused by sharp
objects
4 3D Spacer fabric
Compression
bandages
helps to avoid the
complications associated
with the conventional
compression bandage such
as skin necrosis and also
reduces the treatment
period
5 Nano finished
surgical gowns
Nano finished surgical
gowns have improved finish
durability as compared to
conventional finished
surgical gown
6 Spunlaced
nonwoven
wound care
dressings
The developed products
handle heavy exudates and
remove of malodour from
the wound site
7 Chitosan Coated
cotton gauzes
Controlled release of the
drug in the coated gauzes
ensures availability the drug
in the wound site for a
longer duration
tions, Woodhead publishing limited, UK).
Medical Textiles Market size Annual growth
rate (%)
Surgical dress-
ings
$154.43 million 5-10
Healthcare tex-
tiles
$26.72 million 13-16
Sutures $98 million 15-20
Sanitary napkin - 8-10
Diapers $17.4 million 5-10
Medical implants
and devices
$154.43 million 10-15
10. Role of SITRA as a Centre of Excellence in Medical
Textiles
Our national / International clients include textiles cover-
ing both conventional textiles, technical as well as non-
textile units, manufacturing industries, traders, universi-
ties, individuals, defence, government agencies, etc. The
basic services offered by CoE – Medical Textiles are as
below
10.1 Testing and Evaluation
CoE-Medical Textiles has Analytical, Physical, Microbio-
logical and Biotechnology, Material Characterization and
tissue culture laboratories with high end equipment such
as GCMS, LCMS, HPTLC, FeSEM, etc. The centre provides
testing facilities as per national / international standards
such as BIS, ISO, ASTM, DIN, Kenyan standards, etc. The
laboratories are one of the best of its kind in the world,
with NABL Certification as per ISO 17025 with well quali-
fied and experienced staff.
11. Technical consultancy
SITRA scientists regularly provide consultancy in different
areas of medical textile products/manufacturing/quality
process, etc. So far more than 60 technical consultancies
have been provided by SITRA CoE.
12. Research and Development
SITRA has well-equipped research laboratories with quali-
fied scientific staff to carry forward R & D in the field of
medical / technical textiles. Considering the highly inter-
disciplinary nature of research, SITRA has well qualified
scientists team of Ph.Ds, Masters, Bachelors, Diploma
holder’s from various disciplines such as textiles technol-
ogy / engineering, chemistry, medical textiles, microbiol-
ogy, bio-technology, biochemistry, polymer chemistry,
analytical chemistry. The scientists aim to develop various
medical textile / Technical textile products by developing
different textile structures, materials, and processes. SI-
TRA has developed many products using in-house fund-
ing or by contract-based research with industry partners
or by getting funding from public / private agencies.
Few of the products developed at SITRA are listed below:
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8
Embroidery
based wound
dressings
The embroidery based
woud dressings stimulate
angiogensis in the wound
site which helps to increase
the rate of wound healing
9 Leukodepletion
blood filter
The nanotechnology based
developed products provide
better leukocyte filtraion
efficiency without affecting
the other blood
components
10 Herbal drug
incorporated
PCL
Nanomembrane
The usage of herbal drugs
to treat the infected
wounds improves the
wound healing efficiency
11 Rotator cuff
repair devices
The developed products
reduces the treatment
period
12 PVA/Chitosan
nanomembrane
which have antibacterial
property helps to treat the
infected wounds
13 Hospital Bed
Linen with
Improved
thermal
properties
To improve the comfort of
the immobile patients
14 Bifurcated
Vascular Graft
To increase the life of the
patient who has under gone
a graft replacement by
means of improved blood
flow
15 Barbed Bi-
Directional
Surgical
Sutures.
The developed knot failure
sutures help to avoid the
complications associated
with conventional sutures
such as knot failure
16 HME Filter The developed HME filters
are used as a filter in
breathing circuits to remove
micro – flora and maintain
humidity and heat of the
supplied air
Some of the Instruments developed at SITRA are
as listed below
S.No
Name of the Product /
Process
Name of the Industry
1) Nanofinish –
antimicrobial
M/s Erode Venus dyes and
Chemicals
2) Collagen Coated Hernia
Mesh
M/s Cologenesis HealthCare
Products Pvt Ltd
3) Mopping Pad /
Laparatomy sponge
M/s Caremed surgical
4) Vascular Graft M/s TTK Healthcare Ltd
5) Reusable facemasks M/s Kristaa Clean Carbon Pvt ltd
6) 4 layer wound
dressings
DRDO (Defence Research and
Development Organization)7) Chitosan Dressings
8) Curcumin Dressings
9) EDTA WIPES
10) Surgical mask
11) BVB Fabric M/s Shiva Tex yarn
12) Hospital Bed Linen M/s Kadri Wovens
13) Gelatin based nanotech
wound dressings
M/s Nitta Gelatin
14) Biodegradable sanitary
napkin, Adult diaper
M/s Aprus Bio-medical
Innovations Pvt. Ltd
S.No
Instrument/Equipment
Name
End use Equipment/
Instrument Image
1 Compression bandage
pressure measurement
system
The developed instrument will
serve as a catalyst for more
research in development of
advanced compression
bandages
2 SITRA Barb Introducer
Machine (SBIM)
The developed equipment
helps to produce barbed
surgical sutures that lead to
knotless surgical procedures.
3 Sitra Particulate
Filtration Efficinecy
Tester (SPFET)
The developed instrument
helps to initiate new research
in the field of surgical as well
as N95 masks interms of raw
material optimization
4 Sitra Blood Penetration
Resistance Tester
(SBPRT)
The developed instrument
helps research and
development in surgical gowns
towards raw material
optimization
5 SITRA Bacterial Filtration
Efficiency Tester (SBFET)
This SITRA developed
instrument helps in research
and development in surgical
face masks towards the
consumption of raw materials
and their characterization
6 SITRA Advanced Splash
Resistance Tester
The developed instrument is
used to assess the resistance
of given material against high
velocity stream of blood
7 SITRA Fluid Handling
Capacity Tester
The developed instrument is
used to assess the fluid
handling properties of most
types of wound care dressings
with exudates absorbing
capacity
SITRA CoE has published more than 45 research articles in
reputed journals. Apart from the publications, SITRA CoE
has also filed a few patents.
SITRA has done many product developments with in-
dustrial assistance. Contract research projects are partly
sponsored by the Ministry of Textiles and - partly by the
Industry.
1.Development of Collagen coated hernia mesh with Colo-
genesis Health Care Pvt Ltd as the industry partner.
2.Development of mopping pad using non-woven and wo-
ven structures with Care Med as the industry partner.
Some of these projects were commercialized under pro-
cess of being commercialized. The details are as follows.
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S.No
Name of the Product /
Process
Name of the Industry
1) Nanofinish –
antimicrobial
M/s Erode Venus dyes and
Chemicals
2) Collagen Coated Hernia
Mesh
M/s Cologenesis HealthCare
Products Pvt Ltd
3) Mopping Pad /
Laparatomy sponge
M/s Caremed surgical
4) Vascular Graft M/s TTK Healthcare Ltd
5) Reusable facemasks M/s Kristaa Clean Carbon Pvt ltd
6) 4 layer wound
dressings
DRDO (Defence Research and
Development Organization)7) Chitosan Dressings
8) Curcumin Dressings
9) EDTA WIPES
10) Surgical mask
11) BVB Fabric M/s Shiva Tex yarn
12) Hospital Bed Linen M/s Kadri Wovens
13) Gelatin based nanotech
wound dressings
M/s Nitta Gelatin
14) Biodegradable sanitary
napkin, Adult diaper
M/s Aprus Bio-medical
Innovations Pvt. Ltd
13. Pilot Scale Production / Incubation services
Looking to the future local and international demand in
medical / technical textiles, SITRA has already established
an incubation centre. The centre aims to help new en-
trepreneurs or enterprise transformation for existing
enterprises in emerging fields of medical / technical tex-
tiles. All necessary assistance for developing a new prod-
uct from the concept stage to final production would be
rendered at the incubation centre. SITRA CoE Incubation
centre has industrial scale production machinery for pro-
ducing various medical textile products such as sanitary
napkin, face mask, wet wipes / alcohol swabs and cotton
wool rolls. These machines can be used by new entre-
preneurs at nominal rates for production of the products.
SITRA CoE has state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities
with an area of 60, 214 sq.ft for promoting the medical
textile products to the interested entrepreneurs. SITRA
CoE has the following medical textile product manufac-
turing facilities.
a) Face masks manufacturing facility for manufacturing
tie and ear loop type face masks
b) Alcohol swabs / Wet wipes manufacturing facility
c) Cotton wool roll conversion machine for manufactur-
ing various sizes of absorbent cotton.
d) Sanitary napkin manufacturing facility
e) Spunlace fabric manufacturing facility for manufac-
turing raw material for wet wipes tissues.
f) Ultrasonic sealing/stitching machine for manufactur-
ing disposables surgical gowns.
g) Coating and laminating machine for finishing medical
textile substrates with antimicrobial, blood repellent
finishes, etc.
14. Standards formulation
SITRA has developed few medical textile standards for
the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) for standardizing the
quality of the medical textile products. The status of the
various BIS standards for which SITRA has played a role is
shown in Figure 1.
Figure 1 Status of BIS standards initiated by SITRA
SITRA has formulated standards for the following
medical textile products, for the first time in India, in as-
sociation with the Bureau of Indian Standards.
Product details
BIS Standard
Paraffin Gauze dressings IS 16291:2014
Knitted viscose primary dressings IS 16290:2014
Orthopaedic Stockinet IS 16302:2014
Cast Padding for orthopaedic plaster IS 16303:2014
Povidone iodine ointment based knitted dressing – Specification IS 16466:2016
Graduated medical compression stockings – Specification IS 16467:2016
Absorbent cotton – Specification IS 16468:2016
Open weave bandage IS 16469:2016
Elastic surgical adhesive tape IS 16470:2016
Nonwoven Bandage roll - Specification IS 16660:2017
Absorbent cotton ribbon gauze IS 16670:2017
Belladonna adhesive plaster IS 16671:2017
Salicylic acid adhesive plaster IS 16668:2017
Tubular bandages IS 16946:2018
Permeable Nonwoven surgical adhesive Tape IS 16948:2018
X-ray detectable absorbent cotton gauze IS 16950:2018
Elastic adhesive dressings IS 16669:2017
Adhesive Extension plaster IS 16949:2018
IS 16289:2014
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15.Detailed Project Report (DPR)
Detailed project report contains information
about the rawmaterials, machinery and space require-
ment for producing the meditech products. It helps the
new and existing entrepreneur to understand the prod-
uct manufacturing method and cost required for starting
the industry in medical textiles field. The list of detailed
project reports prepared by the CoE meditech is as fol-
lows.
1) Surgical Non-woven face mask
2) Alcohol wet wipe
3) Non woven surgical aprons
4) Compression stockings
5) Crepe bandage
6) Wet wipes
7) Surgeon’s cap
8) Shoe cover
9) Sanitary napkin
10) Surgical cotton
11) Buffount cap
12) Surgical gauze
13) Adult diaper
14) Baby diaper
15) Disposable under wears
16) Hernia mesh
17) Underpad+
16. Training / Seminars / Workshop
Many techno-commercial programs for the training of
technical manpower as well as for new entrepreneurial
startups have been carried out by the division. During pe-
riod 2011-18 (upto Oct 2018), 6998 people were trained.
SITRA has already conducted more than 248 training
programs for the benefit of new entrepreneurs who as-
pire to start a business in medical textiles. SITRA has also
conducted several programs/ seminars/ talks in differ-
ent states such as Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, Maharash-
tra, Telangana, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, etc. Our training
programmes have benefited new startups to go in for full
scale business ventures producing medical textile prod-
ucts. Some of the technical and entrepreneur develop-
ment programs are as follows.
1) National workshop on plasma techniques for textiles,
Coimbatore
2) One day seminar on business development in techni-
cal and medical textiles, Telangana, Visakhapatnam –
Andra Pradesh, Kerala, Bengaluru – Karnataka.
3) Absorbent Hygiene Medical Textiles, Coimbatore
4) Physical and Biological Characterization of Medical
textile products, Coimbatore
5) Entrepreneurship Development Programs, Coim-
batore
6) Business Development in Specific (for sanitary napkin,
baby diaper etc) Medical Textiles, Coimbatore
7) Training on Wound Care Dressings, Coimbatore
Some of the International workshops conducted by the
CoE are as follows:
1) International workshop on “Electro spinning and Elec-
tro spraying”
2) International workshop on “Biocompatibility evalua-
tion of medical devices”
3) International seminar on “Advances in medical tex-
tiles”
4) International seminar on “Medical textiles – Smart &
functional materials – polymer processing & fibre syn-
thesis”
5) International seminar on “Implantable medical tex-
tiles
Some of the National level workshops conducted by the
CoE are as follows:
1) National workshop on “Drug delivery & tissue engi-
neering”.
2) 3 days national level workshop on “Bio composites &
fibre reinforced polymers”.
3) National workshop on “National Workshop on PLAS-
MA techniques for textiles”.
4) National workshop on “Characterization of medical
textile products”.
5) National workshop on “Hygiene medical textiles” in
association with ICAR.
6) National work shop on “Medical textiles products and
its scope”.
SITRA COE offers customised training as well as hands
on training based on requirements from industries, ac-
ademic, government agencies in the area of technical
textile garment/product manufacturing (gowns, pillow
covers, heavy duty stitching etc), analytical chemistry (IC-
MPS, GCMS, LCMSMS, HPTLC, HPLC, HPLC, UV-VIS, FTIR
etc), polymer & biomaterials (Electro spinning bio/new
polymer for medical textiles, wound dressing etc) physi-
cal textile of medicaltechnical textiles, Micro biological,
Tissue culture, In vitro toxicity testing and evolution and
manufacturing of healthcare & hygiene textiles.
17. Information resources
SITRA library has books and journals in the field
of both technical and medical textiles from reputed pub-
lishers.
18. Prototype development
So far, SITRA CoE has developed 53 prototype
products
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19. Overall achievements of SITRA CoE-Meditech
The overall achievements of CoE (from Apr 2011 to
Oct 2018) are as follows
Projected physical deliv-
erables/Activity
Achievement
Numbers of persons
trained by CoE
6998
Prototypes developed
(Numbers)
53
Number of products com-
mercialized / under com-
mercialization
14
Number of specification/
Standards formulated
49
Research projects (Num-
bers)
28
Number of training pro-
gramme/ Seminars/ Con-
ferences organized
248
No. of research papers
published
45
Number of DPRs prepared
to set up technical textile
units
22
Number of technical con-
sultancy assignments
63
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KETANKUMAR VADODARIA
E. SANTHINI,
T. SURESH RAM,
ABHILASH KULKARNI,
D. VEERASUBRAMANIAN
K. AGALYA DEVI.
The South India Textile Research Association,
Coimbatore, India
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MSME’S 100 DAYS SUMMING UP PROGRAMM, BHIWANDI
POST EVENT REPORT
Government of India, Ministry of Textiles, Regional Office
of the Textile Commissioner, Navi Mumbai has organised
Summing up of 100 days Outreach Programme on creat-
ing synergy for MSMEs in Textile Sector on 9.2.2019 at Ho-
tel Regent Garden, Bhiwandi, Dist. Thane. The even was
inaugurated by Shri Kapil Moreshwar Patil, Hon’ble Mem-
ber of Parliament. The other diginitaries includes, Shri S.P.
Verma, Director and Officer-in-Charge, Regional Office of
the Textile Commissioner, Navi Mumbai, Shri Sivakumar
S, Deputy Director, R.O Txc, Navi Mumbai, Shri J.N. Bhara-
ti, Lead District Manger, Bank of Maharashtra, Shri Sagar
Goha, Assistant General Manager, Indian Bank, Shri Pu-
rushotam K Vanga, Ex-Chairman, PDEXCIL Mumbai, Shir
M.Y. Momin, Secretary, Bhiwandi Powerloom Association,
Shri Vinod V. Chotani, Shri V.D. Choubey, Deputy Director
& delegates from Powerloom Industry of Thane District
attended the said event.
Shri S.P. Verma, Director and Officer-in-Charge in his
address informed that the Hon’ble Prime Minister has
launched the Historic support and outreach programme
on 2.11.2018 for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises
(MSME)Sector. The five key aspects i.e access to credit,
access to market, technology upgradation, ease of doing
business and sense for security for employees are for fa-
cilitating the MSME sector. Ministry of Textiles, Office of
the Textile Commissioner has selected 8 districts through
out India for MSME campaign, out of which Thane Dis-
tricts is one of the selected District. The said even is organ-
ised “SHOWCASING INITATIVES AND ACHIEVEMENTS-100
DAYS MSME CAMPAIGN SUPPORT AND OUTREACH IN
TEXTILE INDUSTRY OF Thane District”. Under the said
programme Group meeting, three Seminars and Aware-
ness programme was organised . Buyer Seller Meet (B2B)-
an exhibition of Powerloom Products was conducted at
Bhiwandi for 3 days to promote the market and expand
their business. There were 26 exhibitors and around
400 traders and buyers visited the meet. 109 weavers
enrolled under social security scheme of Group Insur-
ance. 64 Entrepreneurs of MSME made use of Technol-
ogy Upgradation Fund Scheme and availed benefit of aRs.
7.13 Crore. Further 13 new applications attracting an total
investment of Rs.49 crores is under process. 11 New ap-
plications under Mudra loan has been received for avail-
ing 1.1 crore of term loan. He briefed the comprehensive
scheme for powerloom sector development in Powertex
India scheme and informed scheme wise achievements
made during 100 days by Regional Office of the Textile
Commissioner, Navi Mumbai. He appealed all the partici-
pants to avail benefits of the Powertex India schemes for
the Textile Sector.
Shri Kapil Moreshwar Patil, Hon’ble Member of Parliament
inaugurated the programme and released Booklet on
100 days Outreach Programme on Creating Synergy for
MSMEs in Textile Sector of Thane Dist. In his addressed
appreciated works and efforts taken by Regional Office
of the Textile Commissioner, Navi Mumbai for effective
implementation of Schemes for decentralized power-
loom sector in Thane District. He appealed to the entre-
preneurs to avail the benefits of Government of India
Schemes which are elaborated in the Booklet published in
the programme. He specifically urged to make the use of
Yarn Bank Scheme, Solar Energy Scheme for Powerloom
and Group Insurance Schemes. He requested the Lead
Bank to simplify the process of granting loan under Prad-
han Mantri Mudra Yojana and Stand up India Schemes
and take a drive throughout the District for awareness of
these schemes. He also requested banks to open facilita-
tion centre in Bhiwandi area to give the benefits under
the schemes. He requested the entrepreneurs to enrol
their workers under unorganised worker welfare scheme
which was announced recently. He requested the enter-
prenuers to produce quality fabrics so that Bhiwandi can
be brought in the export market.
Shri J.N. Bharati, Lead District Manager, Bank Of Maha-
rashtra, Thane explained the procedure of availing loan
under 59 minute loan portal and other schmes like Mudra
Yojana, Standup India, Atal pension Yojana and Jandhan
yojana etc. He informed that during the 100 days cam-
paign period 970 persons availed the benefit from the 59
minutes loan portal out of which 430 persons received
disbursement.

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