Technical textiles

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2. Consumption of Technical
Textiles
 Technical Textiles consumes 22% of total
fibre consumption globally.
 Consumption of technical textiles more in
developed countries
 USA : 23%
 Europe : 22%
 China : 13%
 India : 04%

3. Technical Textiles in India
 Total domestic production worth Rs. 35327
crores (2007-08), likely to grow to Rs. 62438
crores (2012-13)
 Total market size including exports worth Rs.
37118 crores, likely to become Rs. 66634
crores by 2012-13
 Total employment - 8.8 lakh persons
 Total Exports - Rs. 2759 crores (2007-08)
 Total Imports - Rs. 3897 crores (20007-08)

4. Why Technotex ?
 New Initiative by Ministry to realize the
untapped potential of the sector
 Creating awareness for a better, secure and
sustainable life
 Creating synergy between the Government,
Industry and the consumers (public &
private)
 Attempting to raise the Indian man fibre
consumption at par with world trend of 60:40
in favor of manmade fibres
 Technology Mission on Technical Textiles

6. Initiatives by Ministry of Textiles to
promote technical textiles
 Scheme for promotion of technical textiles in
Xith Plan (48 crores)
 Concessional rate of 5 percent customs duty on
most of the technical textile machinery
 Reduction in excise duty on man-made fibre and
filament yarns : major raw material for technical
textiles.
 Coverage of technical textile machinery under
TUFS.

7. Government Initiatives
 Under TUFS, 10% capital subsidy on identified
technical textile machinery has been provided in
line with processing machinery.
• Withdrawal of excise duty exemption on sanitary
napkins / baby diapers / incontinence diapers.
• Anomaly in customs duty has been removed on
finished goods vis-à-vis raw material, i.e., Aramid
fabrics vis-à-vis aramid yarn.
• Inclusion of technical textiles in Focus Product
Scheme 7

8. Centres of Excellence (CE)
 In line with U.K. System, Centers of Excellence for
four segments have been launched by the Govt.
8
Agencies Segment
BTRA and ATIRA (Mumbai, Ahmadabad) Geotech
SITRA with A.C. College of Technology ( Coimbatore) Meditech
NITRA & IIT, Delhi (Ghaziabad) Protech
SASMIRA & MANTRA & Navsari Agricultural University
& IIT, Delhi ( Mumbai)
Agrotech

9. Geotech

10. Major Applications of Geotech
 Railways
 Roads
 Landfill Engineering
 Coastal Protection, River Training and Water
Resources Management
 Ground Improvement
 Hydraulic Engineering Applications
 Waterproofing of dams, canals, tunnels, pipes etc.
 Sport fields, golf courses, airfields, agriculture,
aquaculture, liquid transportation,
 Dwellings, Industrial buildings, storage/staging
areas, tank farms, parks and playgrounds, pools
and lakes

11. Scope for Geotech
 Total market size of technical textiles in 2007-
08, Rs.37118 crores out of which Geotech
only Rs. 185 crores (0.5%)
 Indian Road Network, second largest in the
world, 33 lakh kilometers (Approx)
 Expressways - 200km
 National Highways - 70,548 kms
 State highways – 1,31,899 Kms
 Major District Roads – 4,67,763 Kms
 Rural & Other Roads – 26,50,000 Kms

12.  Total Roads under NHDP – 33,455 Kms
 Total Roads under NHAI – 34,797 Kms
 Projects under implementation and yet to be taken – 21,000
Kms
 Total future requirements of Geotextiles for 21,000 Km
roads under NHAI, would be worth Rs.1260 crores, that is
seven times of the present market size of geotech in India
 Under Bharat Nirman (PMGSY) total target for 2009-10 is
new connectivity of 24000 Kms which will require jute
geotextiles worth Rs. 768 crores
 Rural Roads Development Plan- Vision 2025 – sky may be
the limit for geotextiles

13. The Roadblocks
 Lack of awareness about geotextiles and its
benefits
 Lack of Standards & specifications
 Lack of spread of application technology
 Long test trial approach delaying adoption
 More emphasis on physical targets i.e, ‘Kms’
and ‘population benefited’ rather sustainability
 Lack of sizable productions- production
against firm orders- lack of investment
 Lack of regulations/ inclusion in schedule of
rates/ specific adoption in Govt. schemes

14. Projections for Eleventh Five Year
Plan
 During the Eleventh Plan with regulatory
framework, technical textile industry is
expected to register a growth of 24.57%.
 Without regulatory framework growth rate
is likely to be about 11%.

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