The textile industry in Ethiopia produces cotton textiles like yarn, fabrics, bed sheets, and blankets. There are 35 textile enterprises in Ethiopia, both public and private. The largest textile factories are located in Addis Ababa, Amhara, and Southern regions. Kombolcha Textile Share Company has a spinning capacity of 7,000 tons of cotton per year and a weaving capacity of 22 million square meters of fabric annually. Issues facing the industry include over-reliance on cotton and poor production and material handling systems. Infrastructure challenges also limit private enterprises from operating in regional towns.

1. BAHIR – DAR UNIVERSITY
Ethiopian Institute of Textile & Fashion Technology
Course Title:- Product Engineering.
Course Manager:- Pro.Dr.S.Kathirrvelu
Seminar Title:- Profile of the Textile Industry in Ethiopia
Prepared by:- Bantider Demelash
ID.No MTT/002/07
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2. Content
 Major features of the textile sector
 Same of the main textile industry found in Ethiopia
 konbolcha textile share company production capacity
 Recommendation
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3. Major features of the textile sector
Output and Products
 Ethiopia's textile manufacturing industry hold both medium and
large public and private enterprises. Their main activities include
spinning, fabric formulation, dyeing, finishing and sewing.
 The Ethiopian textile industry is the third largest manufacturing
industry, only second to the food processing, beverage and leather
industry.
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4. Con…
 Ethiopian textile sector mainly produces 100% cotton textiles.
Each enterprise produces one product range, such as cotton yarn,
cotton fabrics, bed sheets, blanket, knitwear etc
 All the cotton yarn in the Ethiopian market is supplied to the local
handlooms. It is estimated that the annual hand-loomed fabric is
around 95 million square meters. The outputs of major items in the
textile sector are shown in the following table.
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5. Con…
S.No. Product Item Unit Output
1 Cotton fabric 1000m2 49,925
2 Nylon fabric 1000 m2 1,310
3 Acrylic fiber yarn ton 411
4 Cotton Yarn ton 5,726
5 Blanket (wool) 1000 m2 3, 095
6 Blanket (cotton waste) piece 90, 311
7 Bed Sheet Piece 1,778
8 Carpet m2 4,779
9 Gunny Sack ton 5, 981
10 Sewing thread Ton 7
11 Embroider thread Ton 50
12 Jano thread Ton 7
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6. Con…
Supply of raw material and accessories
 Out of the raw materials used by textile enterprises, cotton is widely
grown in Ethiopia and it is easily available from local suppliers.
 Other materials including chemical fiber, wool, dyestuffs and chemicals
as well as a small share of lint depend on imports.
Export Market
 Ethiopia's textile export is mainly targeted at European and
African markets. In Europe, the export destinations for Ethiopian
textiles are Italy, Sweden, and Belgium etc. African major export
destinations are Djibouti, Kenya, and Swaziland etc
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7. con…
 Variety increased from 6 kinds, mainly cotton yarn and bleach
cloth made from pure cotton, to over 20 kinds including gray cloth
pure cotton, bleach cloth, knitwear, bedding products etc.
 Among them, gray cloth made from pure cotton is the major
export item, roughly contributing to 2/3 of the total export quantity
Ownership and geographical distribution of textile enterprises
 There are various type of ownership, such as public enterprises,
privately owned enterprises, shareholding corporation, partnership
enterprise and individual enterprises etc
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8. Con..
 Broadly classifying the enterprises into public and private, there
are currently 19 public and 16 private enterprises which make a
total of 35 enterprises.
 Out of the total 35 textile enterprises in Ethiopia, 18 are in Addis
Ababa and others located in Amhara regions 6 and Southern 5.
 Most public enterprises are large scale, playing leading roles, as
evidenced by the number of enterprises and employees, total
output values, income from sales etc.
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9. Con…
Marketing System of textile products
 Products such as yarn, fabric and blanket made by Ethiopian
textile enterprises are usually distributed by private trading
companies to the local market. The export of the product is mainly
handled by the enterprises themselves.
 Imported textile hold a large market share in Ethiopian market and
nearly one thousand small-scale family-owned trading firms and a
small number of large trading companies are engaged in the
import business of textile
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10. Same of the main textile industry found in Ethiopia
 Ethio-Japanese Synthetic Textile Share Co.
 Bahir Dar Textile Share Co.
 Kombolcha Textile Share Co.
 Awassa Textile Factory
 Arbaminch Textile Share Co.
 Dire Dawa Textile Factory
 DebreBerhan Blanket Factory
 Ediget Yarn and Sewing Thread Factory
 Adei Ababa Yarn Share Co.
 Akaki Garment Share Co.
 Addis Garment Share Co
 Gulele Garment Factory
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11. konbolcha textile share company production capacity
Spinning
 Spinning has 41600 spindles at ring frame and its attainable
capacity is processing 7000 tons of cotton to yield 6000 tons of
yarn, for weaving consumption and market, per year working in 3
shifts.
 The spinning section includes also the pre-spinning machineries
such as combers and roving frames, the post spinning machineries
such as the winding auto Conner, reeling and twisting machines
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12. Con…
Weaving
 Weaving department has total of 419 looms conversional & fully
automated type. This includes Versa mat, Sulzer & Dornier. It has
annual designed capacity of 22 million square meters of fabrics
working in 3 shifts.
Processing
 This unit consists of continuous processing machineries which can
wash, dry, dye and/or print. The annual attainable capacity of
processing unit is 30 million square meters of fabrics & terry towel.
The garment division produces Bed sheet, Terry Towel & Pillow case.
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13. Recommendation
 The Ethiopian textile industry mainly produces fabrics from cotton
because cotton can grow easily in Ethiopia due to his reason all
the industry they depends on cotton product.
 we know that cotton fabric is very important or comfortable for
our body. The other thing is cotton is cheaper as compare to
synthetic fiber not only their production system but also their
material handling extremely poor.
 I would like to advice them, before they start to produce any type
of product, they have to know abut the kaizen next this, they have
to identify the customer needs and the raw material resources.
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14. con…
 From the 35 industry only 11 industry found in the region town
the reason why, the problem of infrastructure like transportation,
ambulance, electric, health facility for the industry worker.
 Due to this reason the privet enterprise can not build industry in
the region town. If the facility is feel full in the region town the
investor can build industry and make job opportunity for the
region town yang people.
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15. Thank You
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