India ITME 2022 Preview: Textile Engineering Industry On Fast Growth Track

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CONTENT
COVER STORY :
TEXTILE ENGINEERING INDUSTRY
ACHIEVES 130% JUMP IN PRODUCTION
PRE ITME 2022 STATUS: CHECK ON INDIA’S
‘MARGINALISED’ TEXTILE MACHINERY
INDUSTRY
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Textile Engineering On Fast
Growth Track
Textile machinery industry in India has grown
tremendously in the last year, achieving a growth of
130% viz. Rs.11700 crore in 2021-22 as against Rs.5,095
crore achieved during 2020-21. Most encouragingly,
the export of textile machinery rose during the year as
compared to preceding year with the export of
Indian TEI standing at Rs. 4291 crore in 2021-22 from
Rs. 2721 crore in 2020-21. The US$2.5 bn textile
machine industry in India reflects on the growing
strength of this sub-segment in the textiles value chain
in India. A strong textile engineering industry that can
grow, compete, and export would be able to provide
support to the rising Indian textile industry, adding
vibrancy and competitiveness. There are about 3,250
companies involved in the manufacturing of textile
machineries, accessories, and trading of equipment in
India. The industry not only caters to rising domestic
demand but also has the potential to establish India
as an export hub for textile machinery with spinning
machines representing the largest export opportunity.
Much of this segment’s growth can be attributed to the
expansion of the country’s spinning machinery. High
demand for cotton exports and the expansion of
spinning machinery capacities will help India to
maintain an increasingly high demand for spinning
machinery over the next few years. However, the
import of the Indian TEI stood at Rs. 12635 crore in
2021-22 as compared to Rs. 6778 crore in 2020-21.
What is needed is more absorption of foreign
technologies and combined with the use of domestic
knowhow to enrich the technology arena in India, so
that not only production inside the country but also the
export front can be strengthened in the future. TEI has
also the potential of becoming a major hub for textile
machinery parts covering all the important segments
in this section.This will complement the production of
textiles and apparels, which have already made good
progress on the Indian soil.
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Textile Engineering Industry
Achieves 130% Jump In
Production
The production of the Textile Engineering Industry
(TEI) recorded a marked jump of 130% to Rs.11700
crore in 2021-22 as against Rs.5,095 crore achieved
during 2020 - 21 and its capacity utilisation
was 94%, according to the Textile Machinery
Manufacturers Association’s (TMMA).
The fiscal year 2021-22 would be regarded in the years
to come as one of the best performance years of the
entire textile and the textile machinery industry in the
last several decades. A 130% rise in production, 94%
capacity utilisation, 58% jump in exports and a 14%
rise in the installed capacity that was stagnant for
almost a decade are the highlights of the year 2021-22.
Though the year started on a gloomy note when the
second wave of the deadly Covid-19 pandemic broke
out cross the globe causing fresh disruption. It
appeared that the renewed lockdown measures to
contain mass population, industry and the institution
from contracting the pandemic didn’t yield much result
as there were mixed reactions from different quarters
of the polity, community and decision makers globally
on the issues of sustaining lives versus economies.
While the developed countries including India were
successful in developing the Covid-19 vaccine and
initiating the mass vaccination programs, the rate of
inoculating the populace proved insufficient. The
coming quarters in the new fiscal year looked gloomy,
but the industry proved all that wrong, as the entire
value chain across the markets globally performed
exceptionally well barring a few segments. The
Government of India continued on the previous year’s
strategies and action plans for business continuity,
sectoral revival and further improving ‘Ease of Doing
Business’ in the country.
The Office of the Textile Commissioner coordinated
and processed the ATUF Scheme efficiently, barring a
few months of complete lockdown. Majority of the
cases related to the enlistment of textile machine
manufacturers, induction of new machine types in the
ATUF scheme and the release of ATUF subsidy were
cleared on time. A total of 19 Internal Technical
Committee (ITC) meetings chaired by the Joint
Textile Commissioner, 4 Technical Advisory
Committee Meetings (TAMC) meetings chaired by the
Textile Commissioner, and 1 Inter Ministerial Standing
Committee (IMSC) meeting chaired by the Honorable
Minister of Textile; were held during the year. However,
the uncertainty prevailed in the industry about the lack
of information on continuation of ATUF Scheme after
31st March 2022, when the scheme concludes.
The Textile Machinery Manufacturers Association
worked closely with Kalam Institute of Health
Technology (AMTZ Vishakhapattanam) and Invest
India both of whom conducted separate studies on the
Indian Textile Engineering Industry (TEI) under the
aegis of ‘Ministry of Textiles’ during the year.
The KIHT conducted a ‘Technology Gap Analysis in
the Indian TEI’, and Invest India published an
Opportunity Paper covering the Textile Machinery
Industry in India. Written in association with TMMA,
it showcased India’s strengths in Textile Machinery to
both global and domestic players and highlight the
opportunities and advantages of investing in the Indian
TEI.
While the KIHT’s report didn’t draw much attention
of the industry, the Invest India’s Opportunity Paper
encouraged the industry to present their capabilities,
challenges and future aspirations. Inspired by the
report’s mass appeal the industry requested the
association to work with Invest India again to bring
out segment specific papers that would enable both the
MHI and MoT to bring out suitable policies/ schemes
for the industry.
As the ATUF Scheme would end on 31st March 2022;
the time would be ripe to map the prospects of the
textile and textile engineering industry. Earlier, the
Report by TMMA
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Government had launched the ambitious schemes
such as Technical Textiles, PM MITRA, and PLI for the
textile industry. However, it was felt that the MSMEs
and the Textile Machinery Industry should also be
brought under similar schemes for the technology
development and import substitution to promote
“Make in India”
The association worked closely in this regard with the
MoT to prepare a draft for ‘Textile Technology
Development Scheme (TTDS)’ that would benefit both
the textile and the textile machinery industry. The
scheme would consist two sections; section 1 for textile
machinery industry that would incentivize
‘Technology RD, Acquisition, Capital Investment,
and Commercialization’ and section 2 for textile
industry that would incentivize incremental
‘Production’. A budget outlay of approximately INR
16500 crores for 5 years was proposed in the draft
scheme which is still under deliberation. There may be
lot of iterations and additions before it could be
announced after cabinet’s approval during 2022-23.
PRODUCTION, EXPORTS, AND IMPORTS
The production of the Textile Engineering
Industry (TEI) recorded a substantial increase of 130%
viz. Rs.11700 crore in 2021-22 as against Rs.5,095
crore achieved during 2020-21. Except the complete
lockdown during Q1 of 2021-22 due to the disastrous
second wave of Covid Pandemic, the majority of the
industry segments continued on the momentum of the
market gains picked up during 2nd, 3rd and 4th
quarters of 2020-21quite well. Both greenfield and
brown field projects were explored with clients during
the Q2, Q3 Q4 of the fiscal. Throughout the year, the
capacity utilization was close to 100% and the industry
was able to achieve up to 130% of their annual turnover
as compared to 2020-21. Perhaps it was the best year
the industry witnessed in the last several decades.
Most encouragingly, the export of textile machinery
jumped during the year as compared to preceding year.
On the basis of the data furnished by the Directorate
General of Commercial Intelligence Statistics
(DGCIS), Kolkata, the export of Indian TEI stood
at Rs. 4291 crores in 2021-22 from Rs. 2721 crores in
2020-21. TMMA assessed export performance of the
Indian TEI from the private source as well and found
that TEI exports for the 2021-22 was Rs.5572 crores as
against Rs.3307 crore achieved during 2020-21.
On the other hand, the import also spiralled up due to
enhanced domestic demand of the user industry. Based
on the data procured from the DGCIS, Kolkata, the
import of the Indian TEI stood at Rs. 12635 crores in
2021-22 as compared to Rs. 6778 crores in 2020-21.
It was assessed from the private source as well that
showed the TEI imports for the 2021-22 to be Rs.15115
crores as against Rs. 8096 crores achieved during
2020-21 period.
The chart below shows the trend of production,
import, and export for the last 5 years.
During the year, TMMA started procuring EXIM data
of two additional HS Codes i. e. 8443 and 9024 from
the private source as per the request from the industry.
The accuracy of the data procured from private source
was validated again and found out to be quite good.
Besides, the data was procured from DGCIS also.
The association also shared this EXIM data on monthly
as well on yearly basis (after compilation analysis) to
all the members concerned. They appreciated the
valuable assessment on the EXIM data shared with
them that would enhance their business opportunities.
The data also helped analysing the import of different
makes and models of textile machinery
particularly machinery which may be second hand or
reconditioned in nature to the office of the textile
commissioner, Mumbai.
Based on a survey report done by the Textiles
Committee with support of TMMA in 2007, and the
import and export data analysed in subsequent years,
the domestic share of demand of the TEI shows a
downtrend as per the graph given below:

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The estimated capacity of the domestic TEI was
increased to Rs. 12,500 crore in 2021-22. The
production was Rs.11700 crores as against Rs. 5095
crores during the previous year; due to increase in the
capacity utilization from 46% in the previous year to
94% in the current year perhaps due to the pent-up
demand, rising cost of raw materials etc.
DATA ON THE TEXTILE ENGINEERING
INDUSTRY
a) Production
Value - wise overall production data of different
categories of the industry during the last 5 years is
given as under:
b) Demand
The demand for textile machinery, parts and
accessories from 2017-18 to 2021-22 is given below.
The total domestic demand for textile machinery
during 2021-22 was Rs.18290 crores as per the chart
above. The bulk of the demand was met through
imports. Total capacity increased to Rs.12700 crores in
2021-22 over 2020-21 whereas the capacity utilization
trend shows the increase to 94%.
c) Export of Textile Machinery
d) Import of Textile Machinery
Note: These figures are assessed/estimated by TMA(I)
based on the surveyed, capacity, market survey and
market intelligence.

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PROGRESS OF TUFS
As per the 26th meeting of the Technical
Advisory-Cum-Monitoring Committee (TAMC) held
on 22.03.2022 under the Chairmanship of Ms. Roop
Rashi, Textile Commissioner, the review progress of
TUFS, Fund Allocation and Expenditure under TUFS
in 2021-22 as on 17.03.2021 was as under:
a) Fund allocation and expenditure under TUFS in
2021-22 (as on 31.03.2021)
b) ATUFS (Position as on 22.03.2022) : The total
subsidy cap available – Rs.5151 Crore (including 1%
administrative expense)
UIDs were auto generated w.e.f. 9th August 2019. As
on 21st March 2022 total 13483 UIDs with provisional
subsidy Rs. 4582 crores with project cost of Rs 63138.50
crores had been generated.
Source: TMMA’s 62nd Annual Report 2021-22.
MMF
Source : Ministry of Commerce
Units : USD Million
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Status and Background of India’s Textile
Machinery sector as of today
While India took the lead in evolving as no. 1 Cotton
producer, and a major MMF fiber producer in the
world, it continued to depend heavily on ‘Import’
of key Textile Machinery, especially for yarn spinning,
high-speed weaving, knitting and technical textiles.
Also, the availability of high-quality indigenous
machinery for textile dyeing/finishing, particularly
for wide-width processing and grey fabric preparation
etc. is still a weak link in textile machinery
manufacturing.
This is indeed a paradox for a major textile exporting
and cotton producing country which has to redeploy
and invest its ‘textiles export incomes’ towards
‘import’ of such textile machinery. Also, the industry
has to take the onus and blame for continuing to
be a converter and manufacturer of raw materials
and/or interim grey textiles like yarns and raw fabrics;
with nil or marginal focus on the RD efforts for the
machinery and technology development except by the
global and flag bearer LMW Co. based in South India.
LMW have now evolved today, to be amongst the top
5 Spinning Machinery makers in the world.
Even a dozen of Textile Industry focused research
bodies, and including premier institutions like the
government supported TRA’s and the IIT’s, did not
contribute to machinery development and initiatives,
despite availability of government funding to support
the required research and studies etc. In fact, some of
the earlier pioneering companies like Texmaco, NSE
and MFI failed to upgrade and saw their demise
25 years ago and at the time when the need for textile
machinery development with new technology was
perhaps the most needed.
Key factors to be understood for Future Course
Corrections, vis-a-vis Few Past Initiatives
especially by M/s LMW for high technology
yarn spinning machinery
To understand the ‘success’ model of homegrown
Indian LMW Co. which initiated the ‘technology
collaboration’ route with global leader Reiter as the
technology partner. This however got over focused on
the growing yarn spinning machinery sector which
seems to be the viable and volume business to
sustain development costs. This did marginalize
any true efforts to bring in state of art technology
through the much-required collaborations in the field
of Weaving/Knitting/Processing and Technical Textiles
machinery sectors.
The other good example for such leadership has been
showcased by the Himsons Co. for manufacturing and
exporting of the synthetic filament ‘Texturizing’
machinery in competition to those from China,
Taiwan and South Korea.
Pre ITME 2022 Status
Check On India’s ‘Marginalized’
Textile Machinery Industry
Munish Tyagi
Textile Industry Consultant
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What was really needed almost 3 decades back was
equal focus on development of fabric forming
machinery and technologies like high speed/
wide-width ‘Shuttleless’ weaving, dyeing and finishing
especially for the ever-growing knit fabric segment
and embroidery and, also for new evolving
Technical Textiles and Digital Printing areas. During
these decades the machinery and process for
sustainable technology also took a back seat. Also, an
opportunity to serve the exports to textile producing
countries in the south-east was lost by India.
While global and India’s Apparel manufacturing
capacity and exports been rising over last 3-4 decades,
it is indeed a matter of shame that not even a basic
garment sewing machinery of international standard
and acceptance quality could not be developed. This
did open the Indian markets vis-a-vis high capital and
interest cost and space for the higher quality machines
from South-Eastern competitors like Japan, China,
Taiwan.
It is clear that this lapse by our Textile Engineering
related Co`s over the decades of 1990 to 2010 led to
the high cost of import of textile machinery for India’s
MSME producers which impacted their higher capital
cost and unit manufacturing cost for export
manufacturing of textiles apparels, vis-a-vis other
South-East Asian rivals like China, Vietnam.
Understanding India’s Current Technology
‘Gap’ Areas in Textile Machinery
While India’s premier textile machinery company
LMW, has been the flag bearer in the vital yarn
spinning machinery sector, with its exports to other
textile producing countries, there are very few India
Cos. worth mentioning in post spinning arena
eg. Yamuna for stenters and finishing machinery and
possibly Dalal Engg. for the yarn and fabric dyeing
machinery.
There are clear and discernible Gap areas requiring
immediate redressal, mainly as per below.
• Circular Knitting especially for high speed and
large diameter machines with large number of
feeders, especially for Lycra feeding…and onward
evolution to knitting machines of type Santoni for
seamless knit garments for use in inner wear and
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• In yarn spinning area, complete lack of and
absence of final value adding yarn machines
manufacturing especially for high-tech fibres.
Link Coners and Air Vortex and Open-End
spinning machines are the need of the hour,
in view of the diversions from traditional ring
spinning machinery
• High speed ‘shuttleless’ weaving looms of the type
Air jet /Water jet and Rapier type, especially in
widths above 190 cm and including Air jet and
Rapier type weaving looms for Terry Towel loom
and technical textile fabrics in widths 3.6 to 5.4
meter.
• High speed and width fabric preparation and
fabric processing machinery, especially for textile
finish stenters of with 2.4 Meter+ and above.
• Basic garment making machinery of type Single
Needle, Overlock and Flatlock, with
variations for sewing, woven and knit fabrics, also
multihead Embroidery machines and, the Saw Gin
type cotton ginning machines, also Laroche type
for garneting and regenerating fiber from recycled
textiles.
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Post ITME 2022 : Way Forward, and Future Play
for India’s Textile Machinery Sector
India’s textile machinery industry has to evolve and
understand the need, not only for the Indian textile
industry, but also for exports of textile machinery to
new textile global hubs like Vietnam, Uzbekistan,
Bangladesh, African cotton producing countries and
the CIS countries with large cotton production.
It is the strong and healthy textile machinery making
industry that can in fact strengthen India’s global
positioning among top 3 textile manufacturing and
exporting nation, with share of 5%+.

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Get set… Go !!! Needs to be converted for the textile
industry to Watch out… Strategize… Implement!!!
It is the final alert call for the Indian textile apparel
industry in order to get a bigger pie from the global
market. We need to analyze our existing situation,
understand our key areas to focus on, plan country
strategy for domestic as well as international markets
and have our strategy for each and every country
understanding their imports, product baskets to
be targeted, key deliverables, etc. New India which
is destined to be a Superpower in coming years, is an
achievable vision that has driven the industrialists on
a mission to achieve the best of best targets. Textile
Industry should respond to this positively. The
industrialists are all pumped up to achieve the
targets and contribute to the larger vision. The
targets of the industry can only be achieved, when the
industry works as one united front. Our 5 F’s – Farm,
Fibre, Factory, Fashion, and Foreign Trade working in
unison will exponentially achieve the target. All that
is needed is unison so the focus of the textile industry
must be on building a strong chain linking the 5F. Let
us introspect the immediate needs of each Fs.
Farm: Creating a Strong Farm Base
At the onset, we need to observe exercise new
techniques for Cultivation like drip irrigation. The
contamination level at the ginning stage should
be thoroughly checked so that it is the bare
minimum. We need to introduce ways to prevent
malpractices of introducing contamination in natural
fibers. The Minimum selling price concept introduced
for the benefit of farmers must be more aggressively
implemented and the mediators that are not keeping
the deals fair for the industrialists and the farmers
must be eliminated. Direct links between farmers
and industrialists are the call of the hour. Completing
chalking out the existing problems like bonded
labor. More and more emphasis should be given
to educating farmers through artificial intelligence
about the weather conditions, an ideal time for sowing
and nutritive information on the soil and crop seeds.
Benchmarking standards for the utilization of right
fertilizers both in terms of Quantitative parameters
Quality Parameters. The most essential step is
registration regulation of the farmers wherein by
using the latest user-friendly technology the farmers
can get all updates like climate, soil fertility, fertilizers,
irrigation practices, market knowledge, etc. on their
cellphones.
Apart from the above, natural fiber farming must
be incorporated under MOT (ministry of textiles)
for better control. The ministry can further extend
its hand to introduce contractual farming with Brand
Tie-ups by linking the industry with the farmers. To
keep a close watch, an active Government cell must
be brought into practice that will monitor- control
implement the government schemes specifically
related to textiles fair farming techniques. The
farmers need to be awarded based on quality, yield
and best farming techniques.
Fiber: Introducing Contamination Free Fiber
Contamination is the major hurdle as far as natural
fibers are concerned. At the value end, this
Watch Out…Strategize… Implement!!!
Key For Textile Value Chain Enhancement
Mr. Avinash Mayekar
MD, SUVIN
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contamination leads to produce low-quality products.
Hence efficient methods are to be brought into
practice right for cleaning, sorting, grading up to
baling. The clear way of eliminating malpractices is by
strongly building the first “F-Farm” very strong. So the
interest of ginners, fiber producers along with
farmers, and the industry must be brought on the
same page with fair trade implementation. The right
value to farmers will provide the right quality raw
material to the ginners who will then be able to
produce and sell quality material at the right price
to the industry. Close watch monitoring by
independent professional cells must be introduced to
ensure no false contamination practices are observed
at any stage. There is a need for standardization of
ginning techniques which will provide the best quality
to the value chain developing industry. We may have
to boost ginning machine manufacturers to adopt
the best technology for contamination elimination at
the raw cotton stage itself.
Factory – State of the-art-infrastructure High
Productivity
COVID however dark the phase had been, the
emergence of hygiene products would be the
only silver lining. The importance of hygiene has been
reflected in all walks of society. A hygienic factory not
only ensures the best quality of the products but also
brings a clean positive atmosphere which leads
to an increase in efficiency of people. Also, the
proper practices ensure less utilization of energy
water and minimum waste generation. Properly
disposing of scraps will lead to revenue generation.
Routine Machine Maintenance will lead to energy
efficiency and also reduce losses due to unplanned
breakdowns. It will also signal the up-gradation
of machinery. Green Practices are today’s necessity.
Globe is eyeing environment friendliness in each and
every activity. Lowering operating costs in terms of
power, steam water consumption with sustainable
practices will be a cherry on the pie.
There is a need to establish proper skill
enhancement and efficiency utilization among
the labor force. Efficient labor management can
be achieved by workers’ periodic training welfare
through better work practices. The industrial internet
of things (IIOT) and digitalization are the reckonings
that are needed today. Most important is to ensure
regular mandatory. Audits of the factory to get the
certifications that will bring in top global brand orders
on circular routines.
Fashion – Brand Building
Today’s fashion is being executed across the globe
from Europe to Africa - Down south to Asia – USA.
Youth-inspired fashion is trending day in day
out. Green, Organic Recycled are the trendsetters
USPs used to create Brand loyalty. Naturally
derived fashion from jute to cactus leather is
creating their patents labels. The Internet is
speeding the Fashion trends worldwide and hence
making garments with labels is the best way to grab
the open worldwide markets. The world dynamics
have shifted in the COVID outbreak. It has led to a
comfortable knit revolution. Comfort is the motto in
today’s fashion, it is an era of brains instead of
appearance. So what one wears is not more important
than what one delivers. Naturally, with the only
virtual meet period during the pandemic, the trend
was well accepted. Casuals are today’s Formals.
The virtual meet has changed the game for wovens.
Though the IT sector had seen a shift in the pre covid
era, especially in developed countries. The
acceptance of it in Developing countries has started
now. So Knit wear by tie-ups with global brands or our
Indian brand is the way forward for achieving
success. Moreover, sustainability, recyclability,
circularity, and green are the fashion icons amongst
the new generation.
Foreign Trade
Free Trade enjoyed by some of the other countries has
created a lot of concerns for our country’s textile trade
for which the government is working on creating trade
agreements with top developed markets to ease our
way in. China + 1 has created an open market to
compete globally and make our mark to capture
a larger market share. Today buying houses brands
are exploring alternate options. We just need to
develop our strong garmenting chain with state of
the art technology and a skilled labor force to grab this
opportunity progress exponentially to fill the open
market with our capability.
Government policy during COVID provided good
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double-digit market share from the current 4 to 5% in
textiles apparel trade. They are already working on
Trade agreements with developed countries
globally assisting in the representation of Indian
players through pavilions and enhancing the brand
India. Establishing the more effective state of the art
infrastructure to support the timely dispatch of orders
and reduce the logistics supply chain management
costs incurred due to poor logistic support is the need
of the hour.
The next focus for making India a superpower in textiles
is by developing a strong Indian Textile Machinery
industry.
Build Unbeatable Indian Textile Machinery Industry
The Indian textile machinery industry is
expected to touch INR 45,000 crore/ $6 bn mark
by end of 2022. There are about 3,250 companies
involved in the manufacturing of textile machinery,
accessories and trading of equipment in India. The
industry currently thrives on the partnership by
Indian players with the global counterparts from top
companies be it in Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Japan,
etc. The Indian machinery industry is slowly taking
over major steps toward supplying machines from
India. We have made a huge name in the spinning
sector which once started with a partnership to
address the immediate needs of our domestic
market. Today it is having well-established Indian
players supplying top textiles producing countries. For
other segments of textile engineering, however, a lot of
development needs to take place, let us introspect the
segments one by one:
1. Weaving: We need to provide the following
• Value Proposition
• Technological Advancement
• Make the necessary modifications
• Research of the actual requirements
techno-commercial analysis
• Growth model
2. Knitting: In Knitting, we need to start refocusing
on the assembly line Model which has been in
practice but not on a larger scale. The immediate focus
can be to concentrate on developing accessories like
dobbies jacquards. We need to have an Innovation
and development process through research
development. The existing players can focus on
collaboration creating the knitting machines in
India. There need to be forecasted expansion plans.
3. Processing: Existing Indian Machinery
producers need to focus on improvements in
metallurgy innovative technology in line with
global needs. There is a need to have India make
continuous bleaching dyeing ranges of global
standards, Mercerising other essential finishing
machines, and singeing machines to enter into the
map of being a processing machinery developer. We
need to focus on reducing operating costs and saving
resources such as water, power, steam etc.
4. Garmenting: There is a tremendous scope
growth in this sector. We need to focus on
producing bulk quantities. The technology is
fairly simple to develop in-house. We need to
have modern technology. This will also help to boost
the overall Textiles Apparels share of India on the
global map as it will develop machinery in price
range more comfortable to the Indian market and
thereby help bring in more players into the apparel
producing chain for India.
5. Technical Textiles: A highly technology-driven
industry precise engineered segment. There is a top
secrecy maintained with various patents and there are
limited manufacturers. The technology is a
challenge and hence a bit difficult for
self-manufacturing. We need to explore collaboration
in this sector with renowned brands. We have shown
phenomenal growth in products of nonwoven
woven growing with a CAGR – of 15-20%. The
development of machinery will further escalate the
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Strategy to Boost Technical Textiles Product Market
Focus on our requirements of technical textile
products such as:
• Road Highway – Geotextiles.
• Sea, river beds dam area – Geo-bags.
• Landfills mining zones.
• Workwear standardization with technical
parameters for government institutes, medical
hospitals.
• Funding for space-oriented functional textiles
productions.
• Mobitech – Safety mandates in Passenger
luxury vehicles.
• Mandating products – government-aided certified
geotextiles, packtech standardization for graded
packaging materials for storage.
• Sportech –standardized technical parameters for
Indian sports personalities.
• Mandates on construction safety nets
other construction materials for use in buildings -
Acoustic proofing, fire proof safety suits, work
wear garments.
• Active promotion from Government.
• Largely untapped domestic institutional buyers
for technical textiles: Institutional buyers such
as railways, defense forces, hospitals, etc., are still
heavily dependent on imports for high-value
technical textile products. However, in the recent
past, some Indian technical textile manufactur-
ers have started working with such institutional
buyers, but most of the market is yet to be tapped.
Conclusion:
The major focus is to boost the value chain for
which we need to focus majorly on three things one
is global scale, standardization competitiveness.
Global Scale: We are not able to compete with
China because of below the average scale of
production. There is a limited production scale
maintained due to a lack of mileage internationally.
However recent progressive action by the Ministry
of textiles has changed the dynamic introduction
of schemes and policies like the PLI Scheme to
boost the economy for value-added product
development, Textile Parks Mega Clusters are
channeling our growth. So the spotlight must be
on resolving the key concerns in the following issues
to increase our scale of production
• Supply Chain Management
• Quality Consistency in Raw Material
• Logistic support
• Skill sets of people
• Marketing
Standardization: Ministry has started mandatory
production recording. HS code harmonization
creation of new 8-digit product - specific HS codes
especially for technical textile products. The prima
facie standardization needs to be achieved for
following
• Organizing the unorganized sector
• Recording outputs transactions
• Traceability of raw materials across the value chain
• Global Audits compulsions Certifications
mandate
• Environment clearance audits
Let us introspect ourselves to incorporate new norms
• Scan our existing facilities
• Remove weak areas
• Adopt appropriate technology
• Spin profits
Competitiveness:
• We need to have skilled labor force training
institutes as the technology upgrades.
• We must have efficient process adoptions to create
more productivity. Ensure reduction to minimize
operating costs
• Seamless adoption of renewable sources like Solar
Power etc.
• Our products must be world class have
consistency in quality from raw material to finished
products.
• We must develop state of art factory setup
• Our concentration should be on value-added
products instead of the low-value chain products sale
• We need garmenting units with higher capacities
Strategize work on Brand development initiatives
• We need to take a bigger pie from the global market
for which Industry 4.0 is pre-requisite
• New technology advancements are the need of the
hour
• Environmental concerns need to be our priority-
Recycle Reuse would be the mantra for future
Let us all come together to build new India !!!

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Global Machine Tools Market to
Surpass US$107.75 Billion
By 2032
The global machine tools market was valued at US$ 63
Billion at the end of 2021 and is anticipated to surpass
US$ 107.75 Billion by registering a CAGR of 5% by the
end of the forecast period 2022-2032. The automotive
transportation segment is estimated to be the most
lucrative end use capturing 36% of the overall demand
pie in the global machine tools market.
Furthermore, manufacturers are adopting green
manufacturing to reduce the overall operating cost by
using energy efficient processes that can
drastically reduce energy and utility bills, thus fuelling
the demand for machine tools with lesser power
consumption.
In addition, the penetration of Industry 4.0 along with
Internet of Things is changing the dynamics of
machine tools market. Moreover, technological
advancements in the field of manufacturing sectors is
rapidly changing the development for machine tools.
Key Takeaways of the Machine Tools Market
• Metal cutting machine tools are projected to surpass
market valuation of US$ 94 Billion by the end of 2032.
• By end user, Electrical Electronics anticipated
to grow, gaining 171 BPS over the course of forecast
duration.
• South Asia is projected to grow 1.2X faster than East
Asia. However, East Asia is estimated to account for
major chunk of demand pie by the end of the forecast
period.
• Automotive and transportation segment is projected
to create an absolute $ opportunity of ~US$ 7.5 Billion
between 2022 and 2032.
“The ongoing spread of the COVID-19 pandemic
across the globe will delay the economic restart.
Furthermore, companies with heavy production and
sales footprint in Europe and China are witnessing a
direct impact on machine tools sales, imports and
exports. However, slow but quick recovery is expected
from china which will result in a positive uptake of
machine tools” says the Fact.MR analyst
Product Launches to Remain a Prime Growth Lever
Key players in the machine tools market are Komatsu
Limited, DMG Mori, Okuma Corporation, TRUMPF
Group, Hyundai WIA Corporation and Doosan
Machine Tools among others. Prominent machine
tools manufacturers are launching new products and
capitalizing significantly in their RD endeavors to
bring constant change in their line of products as per
the todays dynamic industry trends. For instance,
• In 2020, United Grinding and Ewag developed a new
product, Laser Line Ultra to simplify micro cutting
tool production. This newly developed product uses an
8-axis configuration and picosecond lasers to
incorporate complex micro geometries in cutting tools
• In 2020, Doosan Machine Tools expanded its
product portfolio with the introduction of DNM 4500L
and DNM 5700L. The new DNM series products are
designed for faster and precise machining of diverse
workpieces.
More Valuable Insights on the Machine Tools
Market: Fact.MR, in its new offering, presents an
unbiased analysis of the global machine tools market,
presenting historical demand data (2017-2021) and
forecast statistics for the period of 2022-2032.
The study divulges essential insights on the machine
tools market on the basis of product type (Metal
Cutting Machine Tools (Machining Centers, Laser,
EDM, Related, Lathes and Other Metal Cutting),
Metal forming Machine Tools (Presses, Punching
Shearing Machines, Bending Forming Machine,
Other Metal Forming) and end use (Automotive
Transportation, Electrical Electronics, Machinery,
General Manufacturing and Others) across seven
major regions.
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BY FACT.MR

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Technical Textiles :
LACOM GmbH, Germany : Hotmelt Laminating and Coating Systems – Multi
Purpose, Multi Roller, Gravure Roller and Slot Die for complete range of
Technical Textiles (Website: www.lacom-online.de)
MORCHEM S.A.U., Spain : PUR Hotmelt Adhesives for Technical Textiles, Solvent
Based, Water Based adhesives, cleaners and primers. (Website:
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Fibres, Waste Recycling Nonwovens :
Margasa, Spain: Textile Hard Waste Recycling Lines -complete with preparation,
cutting, Storage, feeding, tearing, filtration and fiber packing. Peripheral
equipment, for nonwovens waste. Complete lines for “Airlay Nonwovens” with
thermo or resin bonding. Cotton Waste Cleaning Lines.
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FARE' S.p.A., Italy : Complete Lines for Spunbond / Meltblown nonwoven
products /complete line to produce all type of fibers including mono and
bicomponent including PET and PET fibers. Machines for producing Tapes and
Rafia (website : www.farespa.com)
Conventional :
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Cylindrical Tubes, Roving Bobbins, Ring Frame Bobbins, Cones and one time use
and Reusable Dye Tubes (Website: www.mariplast.com)
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The Hybrid Shear : A
Major Breakthrough In
Carpet Manufacturing
BTMA member Sellers Textile Engineers is marking
its 110th anniversary this year with the introduction
of an entirely new concept in carpet shearing, as the
essential final step in ensuring tuft uniformity and
‘just new’ freshness in finished carpet rolls.
The company has for many years offered two options
in the construction of its shearing cylinders – the
first, namely the ‘strap-on’, incorporates spiral blades
bolted to the cylinder body and the second, known as
the ‘caulked-in’, includes spirals which are fixed very
securely in a machined groove within the machine.
The new Sellers’ Hybrid Shearing Cylinder combines
the benefits of both, resulting in an improved cut and
finer finish, in addition to longer repeatable finishing
and increased rigidity.
“The Hybrid Shearing Cylinder has all the advantages
of the ‘strap-on’ spiral blade to provide a sharper and
cleaner cut, along with enhanced rigidity which
significantly lengthens the intervals between the
necessary regrinding of the blade,” explains Sellers
Director Neil Miller. “We currently have six Hybrid
Shearing Cylinders operating in the field and the
earliest, which has been installed in both No1 Head
position, where the majority of the shearing
operation and heaviest cut is performed, and also in
No3 Head, where the sharper cutting angle has
resulted in a much-improved surface quality.”
Sellers shearing machines have led the field in carpet
finishing for many decades, enabling the leading
manufacturers to stay competitive by enabling the
highest quality of finish to be achieved economically
and efficiently. The latest advanced features of these
machines include a load cell tension control drive
system, an automated touchscreen for easy operator
control and fault diagnosis, an enhanced cleaning
system including cylinder and blade separation and
fully controllable pivoting beds. Further options
include thickness monitoring, seam detection and
metal detection systems.
“The Hybrid Shearing Cylinder will become standard
on our latest machines and also be made available
for retrofitting, to provide significant benefits to our
existing users,” says Miller. “All of our equipment is
designed, manufactured, assembled and tested at our
plant in the UK, and as one of the few remaining
European engineering companies to make all of our
components in-house – with now over a century of
accumulated know-how – flexibility in design allows
our finishing solutions to be targeted to specific
customers and their product requirements. Aligned to
this is a lead in process control systems which ensure
the accurate control, reliability and repeatability of the
processing parameters on all of our machines.”
Sellers remains committed to providing complete
finishing solutions for all carpet, tile and artificial
grass products. Its range includes machines for tufted
secondary backing, both conventional, powder and
extrusion lamination, Wilton and Axminster proucts,
artificial grass and foam lines, coating lines for
bitumen, PVC, PU and other polymers, as well
as shearing for all carpet products.
The New Hybrid Shearing Cylinder
Combines The Benefit Of Both ‘Strap-On’
and ‘Caulked-In’ Traditional Options.
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Ongoing developments on the company’s coating and
drying lines have resulted in improved guiding and
product tension control as well as dryer efficiency,
reducing heat loss and optimising energy use.
These include a re-design of the fan pressure boxes
and impingement nozzles to increase airflow
efficiency, modulating gas burners and introducing
easy clean, accessible filters.
In addition, the proven dual zone system has been
enhanced, giving a temperature differential of up
to 80°C between top and bottom zones. Dryers can
be heated by either gas or steam and operation and
access have been simplified with controls via
touchscreen and PLC.
An extensive range of ancillary equipment is
available to provide maximum flexibility to cover
product requirements, for both new processing lines
and as upgrades to existing equipment. “Carpet
manufacturing is now based on well-established, tried
and trusted processes and it’s rare for new innovations
to be introduced into this sector,” says Jason Kent,
CEO of the British Textile Machinery Association.
“The new Sellers Hybrid Shearing Cylinder can
provide a competitive edge for manufacturers which is
currently being proven in the field. It’s one of a
number of new innovations the company is planning
to showcase at next year’s ITMA exhibition in Milan.”
A Recent Sellers Shear Installation.

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Italian Textile Machinery
Export To India Up 73%
Can you describe the past two years in regard to
Italy’s textile machinery industry, what with Covid
other issues?
As for many others sectors, the textile machinery
industry came to a near halt in 2020, due to the Covid19
pandemic. However, as of 2021 our sector has
greatly recovered, engendering production levels that
have been even higher than those prior to the
pandemic.
How has performance been so far, considering that
2022 has shown signs of a global economic revival?
2022 has not yet ended, but we can already say that
the critical issues regarding the pandemic, as well as
the subsequent Ukraine/Russia conflict (higher energy
costs, scarcity of raw materials, etc.) will have negative
effects on production for the textile machinery sector
as a whole, and not just here in Italy.
Which segments have been most affected by these
critical issues?
The textile machinery sector is a high energy
consuming industry, therefore all areas have been
negatively affected by increased energy costs.
Specifically, how has trade fared with India?
India is a primary trading partner for Italian textile
machinery producers, with sales for the year 2021
amounting to 104 million euros - a sharp rise compared
to the previous year. For 2022 as well, our exports to
India were up significantly (+73%), amounting to 80
million euros, and confirming India’s position among
the top five foreign markets for Italy’s textile machinery
sector.
Can you let us in your various plans for this year
next - considering that India-ITME is now just
around the corner?
ACIMIT’s promotional initiatives for 2022 and 2023
are highly focused on promoting Italy’s strong
contingent taking part in ITMA 2023. From now
until June 2023, we’re planning a series of delegations
for foreign textile business partners visiting Italy to
meet with Italian machinery and technology
manufacturers. Among them recently a delegation
included twenty or so textile manufacturing
entrepreneurs from India came to Italy. As for
previous editions of ITME, numerous Italian
companies will be in attendance at the exhibit.
Which countries are expected to contribute most to
Italian technology machinery on a global scale?
For the coming two-year period, we expect demand
to grow both on global textile machinery markets, i.e.
China, Turkey, the United States and India, as well as in
other emerging markets. Among the latter, Uzbekistan
and Vietnam appear as potentially the most interesting.
Mr. Alessandro Zucchi
President of ACIMIT
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Dilo Group To Focus On Needlefelts
In India-ITME 2022
India ITME 2022 is an important exhibition for the
textile industry and thus offers a central forum for
dialogue within the textile production sector with
the relevant supply chain comprising textile machine
building, fibre production, ancillaries and accessories.
For DiloGroup this event is a good opportunity to
inform customers and interested parties about new
developments aimed at improving production
technologies with a focus on needlefelts. DiloGroup
will be participating in Hall 12 at Booth H12B23 at
India-ITME.
It becomes more evident that the textile industry comes
into the focus of regulatory authorities who push
respecting sustainability principles and who initiate a
new body of laws. Hence all industrial sectors are
requested to achieve savings in material and energy.
The textile machine building, of course, plays an
important role by seizing this initiative and offering
solutions for fibre pulp recycling and reduction of
energy, water and ancillaries. DiloGroup has made big
efforts to meet these challenges together with a circle
of partner companies. In this regard focal points of the
development work are:
1. Intense Needling
Needling per se is a mechanical production method
with a high energy efficiency. For this reason, the
development efforts of DiloGroup aim at producing
nonwovens by “intense needling” instead of water
entangling, even for light nonwovens made of fine
fibres for the medical and hygiene sector with an area
weight of 30 – 100 g/m². This would result in a
reduction of the environmentally relevant production
costs; per annum to about 1/3 to 1/5 of current.
Despite the prospective advantages of the mechanical
intense needling method over the hydrodynamical,
water entanglement is at the moment the most
important production method for low area weights and
highest production capacity and is also offered by the
DiloGroup as general contractor in cooperation with
partner companies.
2. “Fibre Pulp Recycling”
Fibrous material in nonwovens and particularly used
clothes can be successfully recycled, if staple length
can be conserved in the tearing process. In the classical
tearing process, staple lengths are dramatically reduced
and therefore these fibres can only be used as base
material for inferior uses in thermal or acoustic
insulation or in protective textiles, transportation or
protective covers etc.
When recycling textile waste in the context of the
collection of used clothes, the so called “filament-
saving” tearing using special tearing machines and
methods must be used to produce fibres with longer
staple lengths which can be fed to a nonwoven
installation. Hence product characteristics can be
better specified and controlled.
3. Additive nonwoven production
The additive production method of the “3D-Lofter” is
especially suited for automotive parts with differently
distributed masses; but there may also be potential for
increasing uses in the sector of apparel and shoe
production.
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4. “IsoFeed”-card feeding
In the field of card feeding, the “IsoFeed” method offers
great potential for a more homogeneous card feeding at
the same time reducing the variation in cross-machine
fibre mass distribution and thus the fibre consumption
while conserving the end product quality.
DiloGroup would like to discuss the above mentioned
developments of needling technology as well as
modules of Industry 4.0 applications for further
digitalization during the Techtextil exhibition. We will,
of course, also inform about the numerous universal
and special applications of the complete nonwovens
technology.
“B-Tex” Auto-Cut-Pack is the future of Inspection
Packing Department. Automation is the need of the
hour in all processes to reduce manpower, increase
production with reports generation and Nirvana helps
you to B achieve this with Italian Know-how and
Software.
“B-Tex” has created a niche for itself by designing
specialised hi-tech machines for quality fabric
manufacturers like M/s. Ramco Group, Premier Mills,
Tesssitura Monti, Premier Mills, Raymond
Zambaiti, Soktas, Alok Industries, NSL Textiles, GM
Fabrics, Himatsinghka, Morarjee Mills, Jindal
Denim, SRF Ltd, D’decor, etc. and exported to
many countries. They have also manufactured special
Tailor-Made machines for Technical Textiles
and Tensionless Inspection cum Winding machines
for Knits, Lycra Elastic fabrics with Italian
technology.
The all new 4 - Point concept of Mapping Auto-
Cut-Pack has provided the textile industry the much
needed fillip that helps them increase production by
30% and saves lots of potential time, space
manpower. “B-Tex” is collaborated with REALTIME
Srl for 4-point Defect logging and Auto-Cut Software.
Benefits of Auto-Cut-Pack System with 4 Point Ital-
ian Software :
• 2-3% A-Grade sound fabric saved
• Reduces manpower by 40% in the Inspection
Packing Dept.
• Increases production by 30%
• ROI 6 months
• Space reduction by 40%
• It delivers 80,000 mtr/day
• Rejection reduces by 4-5%
• Touch Screen defect entry. No manual entry issues.
• Online reports : Daily, Production, Shift wise,
Operator wise, Defect wise etc..
• Auto-Sample for Grouping Shading
• Auto-Barcode labelling
• Saves extra cost on Contractor per meter per roll
• 5 Years Software and Hardware warranty.
B - Tex Introduces NirvanaTM

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India ITME 2022: Rieter
Strengthens Success
of Spinning Mills
Rieter is presenting the latest innovations in its
systems, components and services at the upcoming
India ITME 2022 in Uttar Pradesh (India), taking
place from December 8 – 13, 2022. The company’s
technology portfolio is designed to help customers
succeed in markets shaped by rising energy and raw
material costs. Visit Rieter at INDIA ITME 2022 : Hall
10 at booth H10C11.
Autoconer X6 – Key Machine for Highest Efficiency
The automatic winding machine Autoconer X6
perfectly completes the Rieter ring and compact-
spinning systems. The machine serves as the final
quality assurance in the ring and compact-spinning
process and is key to the performance of the
subsequent process stages. The Multilink system with
Multilot offers maximum flexibility to handle a
different type of yarn.
The latest splicer generation OZ1 and OZ2 provides an
optimum splice quality based on an open prism. With
only two prisms spinning mills can splice the entire
spectrum of cotton yarns as well as blends. They are
also used for the splicing of cotton-based elastic core
yarns in combination with the Elastosplicer. The splice
zone exhibits an impressive elasticity in the fabric.
Autoconer X6 – Key Machine For
Highest Efficiency
Full Flexibility with Compacting Solutions
The Rieter compacting devices – COMPACTapron,
COMPACTeasy and COMPACTdrum – are the right
solution for every application. Spinning mills can
change quickly between ring and compact yarn and
offer customers a broader product range. This gives
them an edge in the market.
Spin it Again: Recycling Expertise from Rotor to
Ring
Rieter offers solutions for the integration of recycled
raw material into yarn production to help close the
textile loop and make fashion more circular. Both
rotor and ring yarns can be produced with a
considerable amount of mechanically recycled fibers.
The result is promising : Garments made of
challenging post-consumer material can be attractive
for both consumers and the environment.
Full Flexibility With Compacting Solutions
Spin It Again – Recycling Expertise From
Rotor And Ring Yarns
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ESSENTIALorder – Purchasing Parts with a few
Clicks
Based on existing customer information, the webshop
ESSENTIALorder visualises which Rieter machines
and systems are available inside each spinning mill. It
therefore offers a personalized shopping experience
and facilitates order management, enabling spinning
mills to optimize their internal stock levels.
ESSENTIALorder is available 24 hours a day, seven
days a week.
ROBOspin – the Solution for Personnel Shortages
The piecing robot ROBOspin reduces personnel
requirements in the ring spinning section by 50%.
The robot also attains productivity increases thanks to
higher spindle speeds at equal or higher efficiency.
ESSENTIALorder – Purchasing Parts
With A Few Clicks
SSM NEO-FD for Efficient Twisting Production
SSM is presenting NEO-FD, the assembly-winding
machine for precision wound packages for twisting.
It meets all requirements for efficient production.
The machine features the auto-doffing option and the
online back-pressure system for low and high package
densities. With ergonomic design and proven
technology, the machine cuts maintenance and service
costs to a minimum.
Temco CoolFlow Disc with Longer Lifetime
Temco’s CoolFlow texturing discs offer longer lifetime
thanks to a brand-new geometry and the latest
polyurethane technology. The texturing discs now
generate a disc surface that operates at a lower
temperature, resulting in slower ageing and abrasion.
Further benefits are more stable yarn quality, higher
productivity, and an overall process cost reduction.
Rieter is the world’s leading supplier of systems for
manufacturing yarn from staple fibers in spinning mills. Based in
Winterthur (Switzerland), the company develops and
manufactures machinery, systems and components used to
convert natural and man-made fibers and their blends into
yarns in the most cost-efficient manner. Cutting-edge spinning
technology from Rieter contributes to sustainability in the textile
value chain by minimizing the use of resources. Rieter has been
in business for more than 225 years, has 18 production locations
in ten countries and employs a global workforce of around 5 590,
about 16.4% of whom are based in Switzerland.
SSM NEO-FD For Efficient Twisting Production
Temco CoolFlow Disc With Longer Lifetime
ROBOspin – The Solution For Personnel Shortages

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Rabatex, Ahmedabad-based pioneer in sectional
warping since 1962, has made rapid strides in
technology and today has emerged as a leader in warp
preparation machinery and sectional warping
machines. Its machinery are highly advanced
technological wonders, surpassing the advancements
made by imported machinery. Rabatex Industry is the
largest supplier of premium sectional warping
machines in India, having already installed about 3200
Sectional Warpers and about 5600 Trollies installed
across the countries gloablly.
RABATEX have now come out with a different types
of sectional warping machine-like High-Speed
Sectional Warping with 3 axis servo, single axis servo
machine, and manual machine to cater to different
tiers of clientele. Whether it is a small weaving unit or
latest high speed weaving set-up in corporate sector,
Rabatex has solutions for any kind of warping
requirements. When the warping is done finely the
weaver seldom worry about the final product at the
weaving stage. Good warping is considered as half
weaving done.
Rabatex experts have been constantly in touch with
technical experts in textile industry across the world
over about their actual requirement with respect to
value for investment as well as product output
expectation. With patience and creativity, Rabatex
Team has made analysis need of future demand and
customer expectation as well as global opportunity
of Indian Textile Fabric Manufacturing Industry. It is
continuously exploring highest opportunity for textile
industry to display their capability, creativity, and
value addition.
Rabatex has made rapid advancements in exports.
It has been widening its presence in global markets
and constantly increasing its market share. The
exports now have nearly doubled as compared
to the FY 2021-22. This shows the wide acceptance for
Rabatex’s products in the international market. Key
markets in which Rabatex witnessed higher growth
include USA, Canada, Turkey, Russia, South Africa,
Indonesia, Bangladesh, etc.
Merits of Rabatex Sectional Warping Machine
With the Rabatex Sectional Warping Machines
multi-coloured warp with complicated pattern can be
successfully prepared. The advantages is that only one
beam is in one set, and so, leading to less inventory
handling of beam. Other advantages are:
• A sectional warping machine consists of three
basic units, which are the creel, winding drum,
and beaming unit.
• In section warping, warp yarns are organized into
yarn bands (sections), each having the same warp
density as per the weaver’s beam.
• Where there is no need for any application of
starch, such as two-fold cotton or woollen/worsted
warps.
• Less yarn waste at warping.
• Short length warp can be easily possible with this
warping
• Less numbers of packages are required for
warping. So, less inventory of packages.
Rabatex Makes Strides In Premium
Sectional Warping Machinery
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The final beam prepared from the sectional warping
machine must have following characteristics: Equal
density throughout the width; equal tension
throughout the width from starting to the end
of the beam; no missing threads i.e., having required
total number of threads from beginning to the end of
the beam; and insertion of leases for the next process.
Indirect Warping / Sectional Warping Machine is one
of the important processes of textile weaving where
equal length of yarn is wound first in small sheets or
sections on a drum. After that, it is transferred to the
beam from the drum in the form of a sheet. This type
of warping is a two-stage process which is used to
produce fancy fabrics by using colour and weave
effect. Sectional warping is also known as pattern
warping, indirect warping, drum warping and band
warping.
Why is Sectional Warping Machine required or
considered heart of weaving?
On the weaving machine, the threads (ends) lie
parallel to each other from the warp beam, guarantees
the separation of the warp ends at the drop wires in
the reed without difficulties, facilitating clear shed
formation and effective weft insertion resulting
in higher productivity. Cross ends or snarled ends
are avoided as these will increase the friction
tension, which leads to fabric quality problems
or thread breaks. Also, sectional warping reduces the
yarn inventory so ultimately reduces the yarn waste.
With the help of sectional warping machine, one can
get the maximum production even with short length
warp.
Customer satisfaction is the core and Rabatex
has built the machines and services around this core.
Like today, the company is always looking forward
to staying abreast of technology by delivering quality
products to its customers. Maintaining the leadership
position in domestic market is the key focus, Rabatex
expects to emerge a global player of greater volume in
the years to come and capture - a considerable share
of the global market too.

Unleash your creativity
in Jacquard weaving
Jacquard fabric variations are endless, and Stäubli Jacquard machines set
no limits to your creativity. From simple flat weaves to elaborately ornamented
silk, from unique ribbons to full-width carpeting, let your imagination fly.
Hundreds of weaving mills around the world count on the versatility, quality,
and precision of Stäubli machines for optimum flexibility, robustness, and
maximum productivity.
www.staubli.com
Visit Stäubli
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Stäubli At India ITME 2022 With
Latest Jacquard Technology
PREVIEW : ITME 2022
Taking place in its 11 th edition from December
8-13, 2022, the India ITME trade fair has over the
decades become an institutional place to be for any
technology provider to the Indian textile producing
industry.India is among the world leading sourcing
countries for textiles and has a great hub of versatile
actors covering the whole textile processing chain.
India ITME 2022 gives the Indian actors an occasion
to come together, discover latest solutions for
processing textiles and meet with their machinery
suppliers. Stäubli will be presenting its latest
high-end technologies, machinery, and solutions
that offer greater benefits to the weaving mills at
booth n° C1/ H15, including novelties in Jacquard
weaving.
When it comes to weaving Jacquard fabrics, from
narrow to large format and for applications reaching
from technical fabrics to apparel fabic, such as Saari, or
home textiles, Stäubli is a renowned leading supplier to
the weaving mills worldwide, and as well in India.
Fairly difficult to imagine a Jacquard weaving mill
without a solution from Stäubli. higher power
efficiency, Highest production speeds, minimum
vibration thanks to optimum balanced kinematics, the
NOEMI electronic architecture that stands for utmost
reliable data transmission, and the lately launched MX
PRO modules providing energy savings and
reliable hook selection for all kinds of woven fabric,
make Stäubli Jacquard machines a vital element in
weaving mills searching for productivity and quality.
Visitors to the Stäubli booth may look forward to
discovering latest Jacquard technology and learn
detailed information on solutions that will make them
step further towards increasingly sustainable
production.
High - speed frame weaving solutions with low
maintenance transmissions
The transmission is a vital link in the frame-weaving
installation, more precisely between the shed forming
solution and the weaving machine. These
transmissions handle a great many loads and forces.
Dedicated to continuous improvement, Stäubli has
further developed its range of transmissions and now
offers the e32/33 for low-mounted dobbies and cam
motions, and the de82/83 for top-mounted dobbies.
With sealed and patterned bearings, these new
transmissions reduce the need for maintenance and
enhance the performance of the overall installation,
was it weaving machines operating with electronic
rotary dobbies, such as the S3000 / S3200 electronic
rotary dobby series or with cam motions such as the
S1792 model. At the booth visitors can see latest frame
weaving solutions and make themselves a picture of the
operational behaviour and running speeds.
Stäubli warp tying solutions for any kind of yarn,
from silk to wool and pp tapes
A crucial process in many weaving mills is warp tying.
Stäubli is presenting the TOPMATIC model for very
fine yarns, and its latest warp tying solution, the
TIEPRO model. This machine has, since its
introduction in 2019, convinced many knotting
specialists with its ease in use and the fact that it does
not require any oilbath, maintenance nor spare parts.
Thus the machine ensures continued availability in
the mill and continued production thanks to perfectly
knotted warps without deflected yarns. In addition to
an easy start up and processing of the warp to be tied,
wew staff can easily learn how to run the machine as
the screen guides the operator. A standalone advantage
of the TIEPRO tying machine is that if a double end
is detected, the machine with its exclusive auto-reverse
function automatically reverses and redoes that yarn
separation step. This process takes place before the yarn
is cut, a unique outstanding feature that supports
quality fabric weaving.

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BD rotor-spinning
technology
Spinning recycled yarns
Saurer is in an excellent position to process recycled
fibres with the market leader Autocoro in the fully
automated market segment and the BD product series
in the semi-automated market segment.
With a large number of customers worldwide already
spinning recycled fibres with Autocoro and BD, Saurer
is your competent partner for extending your portfolio
into recycled yarns.
saurer.com

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MOHLER’S MANTRA
CUSTOMER FIRST
MOHLER MACHINE WORKS PVT. LTD (MMW).,
Coimbatore is one of the leading manufacturers and
the largest exporter of Overhead Travelling
Cleaners, Yarn Conditioning Plant and Bobbin
Transport System in INDIA. Launched in the year
2008, BRAND MOHLER, is very popular in
countries Turkey and Bangladesh, Thalland, Indonesia
and many more. Mohler is also day by day increasing
their market share in India. Slowly it is turning to
be the preferred choice of machinery by most of the
textile mills in India.
The technical knowledge of founding member Mr.V.
Balasubramanian, Textile Technologist, along with the
experience of Mr. V.Benny Jerald, Mechanical
Engineer, for more than 20 years, is the main cause for
the development of “MOHLER” products which are
best in its class.
“MOHLER” products are at par with any European
make since they are produced from quality inputs
like Tata Steel, Lapp Cable, FAG Bearings, Siemens /
Beckhoff PLC Control Systems, Siemens / Schneider
make Switch Gears, WHICH SPEAK THE QUALITY
and processed / fabricated by using the Laser cutting
machine, CNC Turret Punch, NC Bending Machine,
State of Art Nine Tank Powder Coating process, MIG
Welding.
Mohler has been strongly growing their presence in
the Indian market as the products are installed in
all the leading names in spinning and weaving units
in India and abroad. Mohler products are not only
preferred choice of most textile customers but also of
leading OEMs.
Over the years the Mohler has been growing steadily
due to the quality product and the unmatched services
extended by them. More than 50% of the total
turnover is from exports which speaks about the
quality and performance of the product line. Today
Mohler
The present infrastructure, with its 15,000 square feet
sprawling and most modern facilitiy, is located in
Coimbatore. With a systematic approach to research
and development, the team of highly experienced staff
members thrive to bring new and innovative features
with unmatched dedication.
MOHLER MANAGEMENT has one MANTRA – Be
Customer Centric by delivering quality products,
on time delivery and with prompt after sales and
service.
With the immense success in overseas market, Mohler
now will give a focused attention to cater to the
needs of the domestic market in India.
MMW will be proudly launching new products at Hall
no 11 Stall no 22 in the forthcoming INDIA ITME
2022 exhibition which is to be held from 8 to 13
December 2022 at IEML, Greater Noida.
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INNOVATION:
IT’S IN
OUR DNA
www.swisstextilemachinery.ch
Invented in Switzerland.
Where the same innovative spirit drives textile progress today.
Vevey, Switzerland, 1819:
François-Louis Cailler invents the
now-familiar tablet format for
chocolate. His simple idea makes
chocolate available and affordable
worldwide. Today, one billion Swiss-
made chocolate bars are produced
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Traditionally, India is known for its rich legacy in textiles.
Cotton textiles is one of the key traded commodities.
Also, the silk industry propelled India into the international
trade market. It was one of the driving forces that has etched
the country’s name in the global clothing and apparel map.
According to IBEF, the Indian textile and apparel industry
is expected to grow at 10% CAGR from
2019-20 to reach $ 190 billion by 2025-26. India has a 4%
share of the global trade in textiles and apparel. A sizable
segment of the textile industry concentrates on exports. The
numbers back their claim. In FY22, India’s textile
and apparel exports (including handicrafts) stood at
$ 44.4 billion—an impressive 41% YoY increase.
This energy-intensive
industry has deep
roots and is spread
across the length and
breadth of the coun-
try. It is estimated
that the textile seg-
ment employs over
4.5 crore people, the
second largest em-
ployment provider in
the country. It con-
tributes about 2% to
India’s GDP.
A clean energy powered industry
The textile industry has been one of the early adopters of
renewable energy in India. It has contributed significantly
to the growth of renewable energy (mostly wind
installations). However, with the growth of the solar
ecosystem, the segment is seeing increased adoption of solar
power as well.
Many factors propel the adoption of solar energy in textile
manufacturing, majorly the policies and initiatives
announced by the Ministry of Power and Ministry of New
and Renewable Energy.
For one, the Ministry of Textiles has proposed a solar
energy scheme for the development and up-gradation of the
power-loom sector in the country. Under this scheme, the
Government will assist in installing solar power plants to
address power shortage issues.
Secondly, decentralized power looms and knitting segments
are the key pillars of the industry. The top textile producing
states of the country include Maharashtra, Gujarat, Tamil
Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan,
and West Bengal. These states have abundant access to natural
sunlight. Little doubt then that these states are pioneering
the use of solar energy in the textile segment.
A labor - intensive industry driven by volumes, textile
consumes a large quantity of natural resources
including power. That makes it all the more important for
the industry to shift towards renewable energy.
Key Challenges
Being dominated by
unorganized players,
a lack of awareness is
the major challenge.
Also, lack of rooftops
where solar panels can
be mounted is anoth-
er major roadblock. It
is critical to create the
right kind of awareness
among stakeholders and
explain the cost effec-
tiveness of going solar as
most of the investments
are covered under various subsidy schemes offered by both
central and state governments.
Like any other manufacturing segment, textile should also
adopt sustainable routes. As they say, energy saved is equal
to power generated. Efficiency improvement is also
imperative. This translates to effective use of technology
for optimal energy consumption and increased usage
of renewable energy.
This where the platforms like The smarter E India /
Intersolar India 2022 show comes into the picture.
Scheduled from 7 - 9 December 2022 at Gandhinagar,
Gujarat, this is one of the best opportunities for all the
textile stakeholders to visit and discuss various avenues
to adopt solar power.
Sustainability and Solar…
50 Percent Renewable Energy Across Own Operations
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ABFRL adopts sustainability 2.0 through solar
Aditya Birla Fashion and Retail Ltd (ABFRL), a part of the
global conglomerate Aditya Birla Group, in the league of
Fortune 500 corporates, has instituted a Sustainability
2.0 agenda.
One of the pioneers in the apparel retail segment to draw and
augment a material circularity roadmap, ABFRL has placed
equal focus on renewable energy—largely solar power.
Mr Naresh Tyagi, Chief Sustainability Officer, AFBRL,
elucidates, “Over the years, we have adopted a
pragmatic approach to increase our share of renewable
energy through solar rooftops and biomass-based
briquettes. Along with the SRT PV system, we have
leveraged biomass and wood as fuel across our boilers.”
What started as a task for resource efficiency, has
culminated into a full-scale project to optimize natural
resources. As the company pursues the pathway toward
Sustainability 2.0, the focus will increase on recycling,
circularity, and the agenda to meet Net Zero targets.
For instance, for energy efficiency, ABFRL has
implemented initiatives like optimum internal and
external lighting, installation of LED lights, VFDs and
efficient equipment. “We have designed new facilities and
stores embracing green concepts. These initiatives yielded
a year-on-year reduction of 4% in energy intensity at a
garment manufacturing level,” Mr Tyagi informs.
In addition to the ongoing efforts, in FY22, ABFRL signed a
Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) of around 1 MW of
additional solar rooftop systems across 4 more facilities
which are currently heading towards the installation
and commissioning phase. With this increase of solar
energy, the company’s portfolio of SRT PV systems will
reach 3 MW, enhancing its renewable energy share.
Besides, ABFRL conducted a third-party assessment to
identify hotspots and potential areas of intervention to
reduce energy consumption and enhance the share of clean
energy in the fiscal year.
The company’s IGBC certified facilities (LBRD
Warehouse, Attibele) participated in a performance
challenge under ‘Warehouse Building’ category.
“Presently, the warehouse contributes to more than 2.3 lakh
kWh of electricity generated from the Solar PV system in
our annual energy consumption, thus avoiding more
than 185 tonnes of CO2 every year.”
“Going forward, we envisage progress in this area by
striving towards Net Zero Building rating systems i.e., both
Net Zero Water Building (NZWB) and Net Zero Energy
Building (NZEB) across the built environment. What is
unique is that the NZEB and NZWB concepts align with
IGBC and USGBC rating systems to achieve the goal of
Net-Zero operations,” states Mr Tyagi.
Salient features of Net Zero Energy Buildings:
1. Improvement in energy efficiency and reduction in
annual energy consumption by about 25-30% with respect
to the baseline.
2. Overall reduction in energy cost of at least about 30%.
3. Reliable source of power supply if combined with energy
storage devices.
4. Compliance to national codes and standards on energy
efficiency, increased daylighting, and enhanced thermal
comfort for the workforce
· 2 MW solar rooftop PV system across six facilities has generated 8,197 MWh of power since FY19.
· Generated ~2,179 MWh of solar electricity in FY22.
Impact of Sustainability 2.0:
1. 6.6% reduction in Scope 1 2 emissions across ABFRL
operations due to renewable energy and energy efficiency
measures.
2. Our initiatives across energy efficiency and renewable
energy aspects led to an emission reduction of 1,810
t CO2 e which included 1,721 t CO2 e from solar PV
systems, 35 t CO2 e by switching boiler fuel from diesel to
biomass boilers, and 54 t CO2 e from energy-efficient
lights and solar street lights.
3. More than 80 solar street lights across warehousing
facilities will reduce energy consumption by 20,000 units,
eliminating at least 17 tonnes of carbon emissions.
“Over the years, we have
adopted a pragmatic approach to
increase our share of renewable
energy through solar rooftops and
biomass- based briquettes,”
Case Study Of ABFRL
Naresh Tyagi,
Chief Sustainability Officer, ABFRL

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3rd Floor, Dawer Chambers, Ring Road, Surat- 395 002. Gujarat, India
Phone: +91 261 4190200 / 2635541-42 | e-Mail : info@shahlon.com | Web. : www.shahlon.com
Maintaining world-class quality standards and delivering innovative products have been the foundation of
Shahlon group’s manufacturing philosophy. A system of acute quality control involving multiple tests
throughout each stage of operation is adopted, ensuring quality, efficiency and dependability of every
product.
Our wide range of yarn offerings include
Applications
Textured
We produce all types of NIM,
SIM, HIM textured and crimp
yarn, in all lustres - SD, FD as
well as BRT, using interna-
tional standard manufactur-
ing techniques.
Intermingle
Our carpet yarn offerings are
further expanded through
intermingled yarn.
Carpet
We have been exporting
various types of yarns such
as micro and high bulk to
the carpet manufacturing
industry, for products
ranging from rugs to wall to
wall carpets.
Dyed
With a capacity of producing
750 tons per month,
world-class infrastructure,
we are well-known to meet
the dyeing needs of
international and local
markets.
Space Dyed
Adding further value to
dyed yarn, we also
manufacture and supply
polyester/ viscose
space-dyed yarn.
Weaving Furnishing Laces Tapes
Carpets
Labels
Velvet
Knitting
Government Recognized
Star Export House

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Monforts Montex 8500 Stenter For
French Technical Textile Company
Dickson-Constant has recently opened its second
brand new plant in northern France in response to
growing demand for its range of well-known technical
fabrics.
New technology installed at the plant includes a
highly-customised Monforts Montex 8500 stenter,
with the specific lay-out of the line the result of a long
collaboration between the German machine builder
and the French sun protection and outdoor upholstery
fabrics specialist.
Know-how
The oldest weaving operation in France, with roots
dating back to 1836, Dickson-Constant specialises in
woven acrylic fabrics and has been part of Glen Raven
since 1998. Its Dickson-branded solar protection and
flooring materials and Sunbrella home upholstery and
market-leading marine industry fabrics are renowned
for their quality and durability.
Representing a €40 million investment, the new
Dickson-Constant plant, located in Hordain,
Hauts-de-France, builds on many of the proprietary
practices and the processing know-how established
over many decades at the company’s existing plant less
than an hour’s drive away in Wasquehal, France.
Located along the A2 motorway that links Paris and
Brussels, Hordain has instant connections to Belgium,
Luxembourg, the Netherlands, the UK and Germany,
ensuring very quick deliveries throughout Europe.
Various locations were considered for the plant prior
to Hordain being chosen, and its selection has
provided a significant boost to the region’s textile
industry. In the absence of suitable technical textile
training in the immediate vicinity of Hauts-de-France,
Dickson-Constant has further created a training
centre to fully train up its 75 new employees at the
plant, in addition to other new textile technologists
entering the industry.
With many new weaving machines, the new Hordain
plant increases the company’s overall
manufacturing capacity by 50% while providing the
flexibility to accommodate more medium-sized orders
and meet requests from certain customers for full
exclusivity in respect of specific performance fabric
ranges.
Non-stop
The seven-chamber Montex stenter for drying,
heat-setting and polymerizing applied resins has
a maximum working width of 2.2 metres. It is
installed in line with the washing compartments and
is equipped with special entrance and exit fabric
accumulators to enable non-stop processing during
batch changes, in addition to an integrated vertical
infrared dryer and exhaust air cleaning. Two Mahlo
weft straighteners also ensure maximum regularity of
fabric batches at strategic points in the line.
“The line is very specific to our requirements,
building on the experience of running our highly-
efficient warping and weaving operations and the
Montex stenter for many years in Wasquehal,”
Pictured at the new Hordain plant (left to right)
are : Volker Gingter and Manfred Havenith of
Monforts, and Herculano Pacheco Romuald
Bellengier, Bertrand Clorennec and Louis
Masquelier of the Dickson-Constant team.
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explained Dickson-Constant process manager Louis
Masquelier. “The new plant in Hordain has a similar
lay-out, but is adapted to new market requirements,
since the Wasquehal plant is no t set up to enable
single runs of under 500 metres of fabric.
“The service from Monforts engineers and its local
partner Monel Industrie Services – with many
technical discussions over the years – has been
invaluable, and it has been a pleasure to work with
them on this latest project, which involved many
exploratory talks prior to the design of the line being
decided on, and then throughout installation and
commissioning.”
The stenters at both plants, he added, have the
potential to cause a major bottleneck in operations,
should anything go wrong.
“We have also made considerable upgrades to the
existing Montex stenter in Wasquehal, including
upgrading the electrical components and inverters, as
well as ensuring we have all spare parts in-house to
ensure all our operations continue to run smoothly.
Monforts and Monel have always provided us with
prompt service when needed.”
Coatings
Dickson-Constant develops all of its specialised
coatings and finishes in-house, and a good example of
its prowess in this field is in the latest development for
advanced dirt-resistant woven flooring fabrics – the
result of over three years of research.
CleanGuard technology adds an invisible varnished
overlay to the woven wear surface, delaying its soiling
while enhancing its stain resistance and ease of
maintenance. The layer of varnish is integrated
directly into the finished product, providing
additional protection.
The woven flooring system is made up of five distinct
layers, each of which provides unique technical
features such as a minimum sound absorption of 18
dB, a dimensional stability of less than 0.1% and an
almost zero risk of fraying thanks to its monofilament
construction, that also ensures a clean cut for quick
and efficient fitting and a neat finish.
“Sustainability is now paramount to our company and
in addition to working towards ISO 50001 standards
at both plants, our RD team is currently focused
on developing an oil repellency coating formulation
that does not rely on flurocarbons, yet is as effective,”
Masquelier said. “We have had a record year in 2022
but the energy situation in Europe is now causing
some turbulence. The latest advanced technology,
including the Montex stenter, have equipped us to
maximise our resource savings and face the current
market challenges with confidence. In addition, we
have also invested in a water treatment plant allowing
the plant to reuse 50% of its exhaust water.
The specially-configured Montex line at the
Hordain plant is equipped with special entrance
and exit fabric accumulators to enable non-stop
processing during batch changes.

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NOVEMBER 2022
58
New Indigo Dyeing Technology
That Saves Water Energy
Thesara specialises in using components of
mechanical and technology products to create the
ultimate ‘Sustainable Functional Coating and Indigo
Dyeing on Fabric’ machine for environmentally
conscious people, says Mr. Prabhakaran Chetti,
Managing Director of Thesara Industrial Technology
Private Limited.
Discussing exclusively with Samuel Joseph, Advisor
(Editorial Marketing), Mr. Chetti conveyed a lot of
information through email about his company the
scope of its technology...
Excerpts:
Overview
Our flagship technology, the ergonomic and user
friendly Sustainable Functional Coating and Indigo
Dyeing on Fabric machine enables users to do
functional coating and dye indigo on fabrics which will
be aesthetically pleasing, more marketable, colouration
and functionally correct and environmentally friendly.
The majority of the textile processing industry now
spends on pollution control. With the ability to
drastically reduce environmental pollutants, water
consumption and effluents, our machine helps the
textile processing industry to be free from pollutants,
chemicals, hazardous wastes and be environmentally
friendly.
Our team has already completed the research, and the
working model is ready. We are now ready to
technology transfer the new product development
(machine).
A promising technology that helps mills and
conventional dye houses make dramatic savings
without the need of extensive investment in new plants.
The innovation uses technology that assists dyes
getting absorbed by textile fibers more rapidly, using
less water and less chemicals during dyeing with zero
effluent generation.
This unique set of features is also a very clean process
that makes sure high quality results at much lower costs
along with improved environmental acceptability and
substantially reduces water and energy consumption.
Achievement Scope
1. Grant from Department of Science and Industrial
Research (DSIR) Government of INDIA.
2. Nominated for Start-up India 500 Award 2022
3. Won Innovative Product on Denim Award by
Indian Textile Fair 2021.
Many of the world’s largest textile-producing nations
such as China, India, Bangladesh and Brazil who face
three-pronged challenges.
One is facing acute water shortage and this salinated
wastewater cannot be safely consumed or used for
irrigation, and is harmful to aquatic life. Two, the
public in all the textile-producing countries is
becoming vocal about deteriorating water quality and
the lack of sufficient clean water for homes and
agriculture. Three, the people in the developed
countries demand that the garments and textile
products are eco-friendly.
This attitude change is putting pressure on brands and
retailers to show that their supply chains are clean and
transparent. Governments too have reacted by
mandating more stringent environment legislation and
by more strictly enforcing their pollution laws.
The prospect will be launching the world’s first ever
industrial dyeing machine that uses reducing
atmosphere (REDOX) to indigo dye fabrics with Wisik
technology. The reducing atmosphere used in this
process is used for the first time in industry and is safe
and does notemit any harmful gases.
On top of that, the technology uses less chemicals and
about half the energy of conventional dyeing
techniques.
The benefits are huge:
• There is no water consumption, no use of chemicals.
• The investment costs are low, the machine produced
lower operational costs and faster processing than
traditional dyeing.
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