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MARKET REPORT 13- Global Knit Fabric Report by Fact HR 16- Yarn Report by Textile Beacon 17- Surat Report by TVC Reporter

ARTICLES 18- Applications of Big Data in Textile industry by Mr. Barhanpurkar, SVVV

42- SHOW CALENDAR INTERVIEW 43- Mr. Demeke Atnafu Ambulo, Consul General of Ethiopia 45- Mr. Anil Chowta , Founder & CEO, ECOSAC

21- Pigment Printing in Non Woven Fabric by Mrs. Swati Chavan, DKTE 25- Opportunity for new entrepreneurs in medical textiles : A Sunrise industry and Role of COE SITRA by Educationist of SITRA

POST EVENT REPORT 33- MSME’S 100 days summing up Program 34- VJTI’s VASTRA 2019 35- DTG 2019 37- SRTEPC Award , Chairman Speech 39- PRODUCT FOCUS: FONGS

NEWS 40- Messe Frankfurt India and MEX Exhibitions enter into Strategic Alliance

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RETHINK AND RE STRATEGIZE BUSINESS MODEL FOR INCREMENTAL GROWTH…!

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Recently during CEO Conclave in Hydrabad, topic for discussion was as per title line. Perception of the industry contributors is “our industry is not very lucrative to invest with less profit margins”. We need to revive, rejuvenate with rethinking and re strategize on current industry strategies. Few key points discussed: Market; whether to Focus on Domestic or Exports, what is more lucrative in profit, which state providing more incentives, which market gives more freedom and creativity etc. So many questions which confuses the industrialist and start-up companies, where to head on? Solution is within the company and within self.

Production ; whether to Outsource, Scale- up or import, which state policy giving more ease of doing business with responsible and committed business plan. Is Scale the only solution when current manufacturing is over capacity in few segments, few clusters are crying and shutting down their units? Why not Clusters can be optimum utilized with effective cluster development strategies. Need of the hour is current industry to prosper to motivate new investor to enter.

For marketing, logistics, skilling many units using Hub and Spoke Model which is benefiting to industry, as it reduces production cost and reduces attrition rate. Every state having Textile policy, Investor needs to take maximum opportunity/ advantage to make a right choice and invest in the right state as per their customers and work culture of the business.

Research and Innovation is the only key to mark our remarkable presence in globe. Our industry is comprises of 90% SME’s which don’t have enough financial capacity to invest in research. Few organized sector players only investing in research and innovative thinking. For Disruptive innovation, we need introspective approach with less attachment to business, which opens the doors of creative vision and unlimited opportunities.

Human Resource ; need to be trained, skilled and make them aware about the quality requirement and importance of their presence in the company’s profitability and get motivated to create value to the organization.

We wish industry to renovate their business with re-strategies for positive incremental growth.

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FABRIC REPORT

NEARLY 50% MARKET SHARES HELD BY EMERGING PLAYERS With burgeoning demand for knitted fabrics in the global clothing and textile industry, a mounting number of manufacturers are entering the market to capitalize on lucrative business opportunities. These new market entrants and emerging players collectively account for 45-50% share of the knitted fabrics market. On the other hand, knitted fabrics market leaders are aiming to gain momentum in the clothing and textile industry by enhancing their value chains on two fronts – automation and nearshoring. Stagnation in Western markets has consequentially resulted in new players entering the developing markets for knitted fabrics. A mounting number of start-ups in the knitted fabrics market are adopting advanced technologies to introduce innovative fabrics and gain an edge in the knitted fabrics market. In addition, small scale producers in the knitted fabrics market in developing countries are also benefitting from favorable regulations and low labor costs, making their way through the highly-competitive knitted fabrics market.

Notable developments in the knitted fabrics market: • A leading Italy-based manufacturer of high-quality knitted fabrics, Luxury Jersey recently announced the launch of two new fabrics for the luxury segment, in partnership with partner Fulgar – an Italian producer of manmade fibers. The company used Evo by Fulgar, which is a yarn made from castor oil, in combination with GOTS-certified organic cotton to manufacture these new fabrics.

The company also announced that the two new fabrics offer a strong sustainable component in the knitted fabrics market, and can be ideal for women’s outwear and sportswear.

• In February 2018, scientists at Texinov Medical Textiles – a French manufacturer of warp-knitted textiles, developed a knitted fabric using laser technology that can be used in treatments for skin diseases such as actinic keratosis, psoriasis, and acne with light.

• Zaha Hadid Architects and researchers from ETH Zurich – a science, technology, engineering, and mathematics University based in Zürich, Switzerland – developed double-curved concrete shelled pavilion was made with the help of KnitCrete – a 3D-knitted formwork. This framework is claimed to have helped in saving material, waste, and labor for construction by simplifying the construction process for complex shapes.

The report provides information about knitted fabrics market structure, key financials, recent competitive developments, and financial share analysis of leading stakeholders in the knitted fabrics market. The companies featured in the report include Guilford Mills, Gehring Tricot

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Corporation, Rebtex Inc., Macra Lace Company, Clover Knits, SAS Textiles, Damodar Menon International Pvt Ltd., Krishna Overseas, Jason Mills LLC, and William J Dixon Inc.

State-of-the-Art Technologies Sought-after among Digitization-driven Knitted Fabrics Manufacturers Increasing growth of the textile industry has resulted in creating more lucrative opportunities, thereby attracting new players to enter the industry. This is leading to intensifying the competition in the knitted fabrics market.

Leading manufacturers are launching more innovative and high-quality products using next-generation manufacturing technologies to bring a new dynamic to the knitted fabrics market. Increasing adoption of state-ofthe-art technologies to bolster manufacturing of custom seamless knitwear apparels is becoming increasingly palpable in the knitted fabrics market. Market leaders are completely digitizing their entire production processes to further enhance their business productivity and efficiency. Technological assets, such as physical simulation software, 3D printing technology, and 3D design software, are likely to prevail over traditional manufacturing processes soon in the knitted fabrics market.

Vulnerability to Damages – Prevailing Cost-intensive Concern for Knitted Fabrics Market Players Knitted fabrics have been deemed more prone to damage than their woven alternatives, thereby compromising the utilization efficiency of of the fabric in various applications. Needle malfunction, mismanagement of machinery, or improper care during the fabric dyeing processes, are some of the aspects that increase the risk of damage during knitted fabrics construction In addition, improper manual handling of knitted fabrics and inspection cuts

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FABRIC REPORT lead to forcing manufacturers to keep an extra buffer for such damages. This is one of the leading causes behind high overall fabric costs, which is ultimately creating challenges for stakeholders to mitigate production costs.

Thereby, unavoidable spending on knitted fabric management and machine maintenance prove to be costly challenges for knitted fabrics market players to tackle with.

Medical Textiles – A Lucrative Application Area for Knitted Fabrics Manufacturers Both, woven fabrics and knitted fabrics are commonly used in the healthcare industry as medical textile. However, textile engineers discovered that knitted fabrics are more flexible, highly porous than woven fabrics, and have loose and changeable structural design, thereby can be used in versatile medical applications. The structure of knitted fabric can be altered and modified easily to suit variable requirements of several medical applications, which is boosting demand for knitted fabrics in the healthcare industry.

With growing awareness about unique benefits of knitted fabrics, when they are used as medical textiles, knitting technologies have emerged to be an integral part of the healthcare industry. For example, warp knitting technology is becoming popular as one of the most economic technologies used to manufacture thermostatic textiles used in surgery to maintain patients’ body temperature.

Increasing use of high-tech medical textiles in healthcare applications is creating numerous lucrative opportunities for manufacturers in the knitted fabrics market. Leading market players are likely to adopt next-generation manufacturing technologies to offer knitted medical textiles that can suit various requirements of medical applications in the upcoming years.

Knitted Fabric Sales Spur as Manufacturers Emphasize Technical Performance Owing to their soft hand-feel and characteristics to offer a perfect fit to the clothing, knitted fabrics find more

market are adopting advanced printing technologies to further enhance the texture and flexibility of knitted fabrics to suit the modern requirements in the nightwear clothing segment. Apart from the offering knitted fabrics with rich feel, leading players in the knitted fabrics market are concentrating on improving performance characteristics of knitted fabrics. Manufacturers are likely to alter their manufacturing processes to offer better performance characteristics of knitted fabrics, such as resistance to washing and rubbing, functional comfort, and significant saving on energy and greenhouse emissions, to expand the scope of knitted fabric applications beyond lingerie and nightwear segment.

Definition Knitted fabrics is a type of elastic textiles that are manufactured by interlocking yarns with the help of a pair of needles. Knitted fabrics can be manufactured by two principal methods – weft knitting and warp knitting. Knitted fabrics are generally comfortable, lightweight, and can be made more easily and quickly that woven fabrics, with which they are often used interchangeably.

About the Report The Fact.MR study is a seamless presentation of unique insights on how the knitted fabrics market will expand across the globe during 2018-2027. The utmost objective of Fact.MR report on knitted fabrics market is to provide compelling insights on the demand generating factors, dynamic aspects, key product developments in the market, and overall market scenario of the knitted fabrics market. The report includes the ultimate predictions about growth of the knitted fabrics market in terms of market size (US$ million) and market volume (tons) during the assessment period.

Market Structure The Fact.MR report divides the knitted fabrics market into its four broad sub-segments – construction type, fabrics type, applications, and regions.

Based on the construction types of knitted fabrics, the knitted fabrics market is segmented into two main categories – weft knitted fabrics, and wrap knitted fabrics.

Based on the fabric types, the knitted fabrics market is segmented into flat/jersey, purl fabric, rib stitch, and interlock.

According to the applications of knitted fabrics, the knitted fabrics market is segmented into Agrotech, Buildtech, Indutech, Sportech, Packtech, Meditech, Clothtech, and Geotech. Based on geographical regions, the knitted fabrics market is segmented into North America, Latin America, Europe, Japan, Asia Pacific region excluding Japan (APEJ), and the Middle East & Africa (MEA).

demand and maximum applications in nightwear and lingerie collections. Manufacturers in the knitted fabrics

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• Which technologies are being used by most manufacturers in the knitted fabrics market?

• Which factors are driving market players to invest heavily in the knitted fabrics market in the Asia Pacific region?

• What are the challenges and restraints that are influencing growth prospects of the knitted fabrics market?

Research Methodology

knitted fabrics market, which can help market players to get the hang of prominent growth prospects of the market. The information compiled in the knitted fabrics market report can serve as a highly credible source for the readers, which can help them to understand historical and forecast data of the knitted fabrics market.

The report on knitted fabrics market also addresses some additional market-related questions about the growth trajectory of knitted fabrics market, which can help readers to make value-based decisions and gain a competitive edge in the knitted fabrics market space.

The report also helps reading by answering queries about growth prospects of the knitted fabrics market, which can help them to plan appropriate strategies for future while entering the knitted fabrics market. Some of the important questions about the knitted fabrics market that are focused on in the report include • What are the most common strategies adopted by leading manufacturers in the knitted fabrics market in developed regions?

NEWS

• What is the impact of statistics of the global textile in-

WTO warns of global trade slowdown as indicator hits 9-year low.

The index for container port throughput remained relatively buoyant at 100.3, but that may have been influenced by a front-loading of shipments before an anticipated hike in U.S.-China tariffs, the WTO said.

Trade tensions, political risks and financial volatility will continue to pressure global trade, and trade weakness is likely to extend into the first quarter of 2019, the World Trade Organization (WTO) cautioned on Tuesday. The global trade watchdog’s latest World Trade Outlook Indicator (WTOI) was 96.3, the weakest since March 2010 and below the baseline value of 100 for the index, signalling below-trend trade expansion into the first quar-

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The Fact.MR report provides readers with exclusive predictions about the historic and recent development in the knitted fabrics market for the period 2018-2027. A unique methodology is followed while conducting a thorough research about the knitted fabrics market to conclude the growth prospects of the market.

The information featured in the Fact.MR report is acquired by following a unique and in-depth secondary and primary market research on growth parameters of the knitted fabrics market. Secondary research on the knitted fabrics elucidates the historical industry-validated data, facts and information about the knitted fabrics market.

Primary research is carried out to assess growth prospects of the knitted fabrics market, where market players, including manufacturers, industry experts, distributors, suppliers, and investors, in the knitted fabrics market are interviewed. The insights on knitted fabrics market included in the research study have been subjected to authentication and validation of data by seasonal experts and industry giants.

The unique research methodology followed in the knitted fabrics market report represents a robust approach to gauge the parameters portraying growth aspects of knitted fabrics market over the forecast time period.

BY- FACT.MR ter. Readings of 100 indicate growth in line with mediumterm trends; those greater than 100 suggest above-trend growth, while those below this level show below-trend growth. “The simultaneous decline of several trade-related indicators should put policy makers on guard for a sharper slowdown should the current trade tensions remain unresolved,” the organisation said. The WTOI combines several component indices of trade-related data into a single composite index that anticipates turning points in world merchandise trade volume. These are export orders from major economies, air freight, container throughput, automobile production, electronic components and agricultural raw materials. As per the indicator, weakness in the overall index was driven by steep declines in the component indices, which appear to be under pressure from heightened trade tensions.

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YARN REPORT COTTON YARN EXPORT DECLINES IN DECEMBER other countries which imported yarn worth US$0.4 million.

Russia, Algeria, Ghana, Indonesia and Ecuador were among top five fastest importers of cotton yarn in December while Argentina, Honduras, Slovenia, North Korea and Czech Republic significantly reduced their imports compared to last year.

Cotton export down in December Cotton exports shipment were down 13% to 12.19 lakh bales (170 kg each) in December as against 14 lakh bales exported in the same month of previous marketing year (2017-18). In December, cotton shipment inched up 5% YoY in terms of realisation. This implies significant jump in unit prices realisation of 11% to average INR128.50 per kg or US cents 83.84 per pound.

100% man-made fibre yarns exports declined 16% in December, comprising 3.2 million kg of polyester yarn, 1.8 million kg of viscose yarn and 1.4 million kg of acrylic yarn.

Polyester yarn exports declined 27% in value while viscose yarn exports value increased 9% during the month.

Acrylic yarn exports were down 19% during the month.

Polyester spun yarns worth US$8.2 million were exported to 49 countries at average unit price of US$2.56 a kg. Turkey was the largest importer of polyester yarn, followed by

Domestic spot prices of benchmark Gujarat Shankar-6 averaged US cents 79.32 per pound while global spot benchmark, the Cotlook ‘A’ index for December averaged US cents 84.74 per pound. Bangladesh was the largest importer of Indian cotton in December, followed by China and Pakistan. Vietnam was the fourth largest importer of Indian cotton during the month.

Cotton yarn export up 8% in November but at lower prices Spun yarns shipment totaled 115 million kg (down 9%) worth US$345 million (down 8%) implying an aver-age unit value realization of US$2.88 per kg, up US cents 2 compared to previous month. Meanwhile, the INR against the US$ weakened to INR69 this December, which had augured well for exports. China was the largest buyer of spun yarns, topping both in terms of volume and value.

Cotton yarn export was at 96 million kg worth US$290 million (INR2,010 crore), 7% down from previous year’s level in US$ terms. 79 countries imported cotton yarn from India at an average price of US$3.02 a kg, up US cent 1 from previous month and from a year ago.

China continued to cut cotton yarn import from India in volume and value terms. In December, the decline was 35% year on year. China was followed by Bangladesh with volume and value rising more than 12% over the year.

Egypt and Vietnam were the other major importers, with former recording 10% increase and latter 47%. Seven countries did not import any cotton yarn from India this December as they had imported yarn worth US$3 million same month last year. However, they were replaced by 9

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USA and Morocco. Unit price realization was up US cents 7 compared to last month and up US cents 16 from last year. Viscose yarn worth US$6.2 million or INR44 crore was exported in December at an average price of US$3.50 per kg. Belgium was the top importer worth US$8.96 million, followed by Bangladesh and Egypt. Turkey was the fourth largest importer of viscose yarn during the month.

Blended spun yarns worth US$39 million were exported in December, down 10% YoY in value terms. During the month, 6.9 million kg of PC yarns was exported worth US$19 million while 4 million kg of PV yarns were exported worth US$14 million. Egypt, Bangladesh and Morocco, were the largest importers of PC yarn from India while Turkey was the single largest importer of PV yarns from India followed distantly by South Africa.

Shipment of all kinds of filament yarns totaled 60 million kg, down 3% YoY valued at US$108 million.

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SURAT REPORT UPSET FOR WEAVERS AS FUND ALLOCATION UNDER ATUFS REDUCED TO 700 CR. In the recently announced interim budget, the Finance Minister has reduced allocation under Amended Technology Upgradation Funds Scheme (ATUFS) to Rs700 crore.

The weavers of the city are upset and belief that modernisation in the power loom industry will come to a grinding halt as the fund allocation for the scheme has cut by 70%.

The ATUF scheme and Rebate on State Levies (ROSL) have been reduced from Rs2,300 crore to Rs700 crore and Rs2,164 crore to Rs1,000 crore, respectively.

The Power Loom ndustry sources said, TUF scheme allways remain attractive in the textile sector. With just Rs700 crore for the ATUFS, modernization in the textile industry will be affected. The power loom weavers who have to repay loan instalment will face a difficult situation. Backlog in the ATUFS would be over Rs2,000 crore as over 3,000 projects that got implemented are yet to receive subsidy due to complicated guidelines of ATUFS. The government had earlier allocated Rs17,822 crore, including Rs5,151 crore for ATUFS for the 13th Five Year Plan in order to clear long-pending committed liability.

Surat based Federation of Gujarat Weavers’ Association (FOGWA) has given a representation to Textile Minister to clear the backlog of TUF subsidy. Power loom weavers stated that 1,500 files from Surat are pending for subsidy approval at the textile commissioner’s office under the ATUFS for 10% subsidy. The weavers had ordered machinery from foreign countries for taking benefit of the subsidy. The complicated guidelines of ATUFS have resulted in non-reimbursement of the subsidy amount to the weavers. They have demanded a joint inspection team consisting of textile association, MANTRA and textile commissioner’s office be formed to hold an open house with the weavers who are yet to get the subsidy amount. _____________________________________________________________

RAPIER AND WATERJET LOOMS OWNER WAITING FOR POWER TARIFF SUBSIDY The weavers, who have insttaled latest Rapier and Waterjet Power looms are eagerly waiting for power tariff subsidy. Last month, the state govt. has declared power tariff subsidy in the New textile policy(Sept.-18 to Sept.-23). It has implemented subsidy in power tariff, which allows up to Rs3 per unit for weaving and Rs2 per unit for other eligible segments, including textile mills etc. The weavers are still paying electricity tariff at old rates as the electrisity distribution companies have refused to give power subsidy stating that they are yet to get government notification about it.

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Mayurbhai Golwala, secretary of Federation of Gujarat Weavers Welfare Association (FOGWA) said, The power tariff subsidy is for new machines installed in the textile sector. In the last one year, power loom weavers have invested Rs1,000 crore in installing Rapier and Waterjet looms, but they are not getting power subsidy which was announced by the state government. Despite Gujarat Government announcing subsidy in power tariff for weaving and textile mills in the new textile policy, the power distribution companies are not passing on the benefit stating they are yet to receive any circular or notification in this regard from the authorities. The weaving units and textile mills are paying bills at the old rates.

The weavers of the city are demanding same power tariff subsidy for existing units. More than 25,000 units are running in the industrial area near the city. The weavers are arguing that to avoid unhealthy competition, the government should have to consider old and new machines in the same category. _____________________________________________________________

Election campaign : Textile traders Printing Modi, Priyanka’s images on sarees and bill-books Before Lok Sabha elections, the textile traders of the city have already started campaigning for their favourite leaders. Colourful sarees with the faces of Narendra Modi, Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi are the new creations this election season at this popular saree market.

BJP supporters traders here are bating for Prime Minister Narendra Modi and have already started campaigning.

The Modi sarees were printed and distributed across the country in 2014. Now, before general election of 2019, the BJP supporters textile traders are printing digital photos of PM Narendra Modi on saree.

Congress supporters are also trying to take the same route. They are printing Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi’s images on sarees.

Surat is one of the largest saree markets in Asia and sarees from here are distributed across the country. The Surat saree market sends its sarees across the country, which is why political parties flock the shops as a means to reach out to people and campaign for the elections.

Besides saree, Many textile traders have printed bill-books and challans with pictures of PM with slogans ‘Namo Lao Desh Bachao’ ‘Namo Again’, ‘Vote for BJP’ etc. These traders are issuing bills to their counterparts across the country appealing them to bring Modi back to power in 2019.

There are over 165 textile markets in the city housing over 65,000 textile shops. The daily turnover of the saris and dress material is pegged at Rs 110 crore.

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“BIG DATA” CONCEPT APPLICATIONS OF BIG DATA IN TEXTILE INDUSTRY Abstract The concept of big data includes analyzing capacious data to extract valuable information. In the textile world, big data is increasingly playing a part in trend estimating, analyzing consumer performance, preference. The purpose of this paper is to introduce the term textile data and why it can be considered as big data. It also gives a broad classification of the types of textile data and briefly defines them. Also, the methodology and working of a system that will use this data is briefly described. Big data refers to a process that is used when traditional data mining and handling techniques cannot uncover the insights and meaning of the underlying data. Data that is unstructured or time sensitive or simply very large cannot be processed by relational database engines. This type of data requires a different processing approach called big data. This approach can be utilized for analyzing the information relating to spinning, weaving, chemical processing and in garment sector. This segment will definitely enhance the value addition in technological development and interpretate to solve the problems of the process.

Even than very negligent researches are available in this field but it’s a lastly growing field and smartly ulilzed in the textile sector. In this research paper some information have been reviewed and tried to described for researchers and technologists.

Keywords: Big Data, Cyber Physical Systems(CPS), Digital Textile, Textile Data.

1.Introduction Modern manufacturing facilities are data-rich environments that support the transmission, sharing and analysis of information across ubiquitous networks to produce manufacturing intelligence. The potential benefits of manufacturing intelligence include improvements in operational efficiency, process innovation, and environmental impact, to name a few. However, similar to other industries and domains, the current information systems that support business and manufacturing intelligence are being tasked with the responsibility of storing increasingly large data sets (i.e. Big Data), as well as associate the real-time processing of this ‘Big Data’ using advanced analytics. The predicted exponential growth in data production will be a result of an increase in the number of instruments that record measurements from physical environments and processes, as well as an increase in the frequency at which these devices record and persists measurements. The technologies that transmit this raw data will include legacy automation and sensor networks, in addition to new and emerging paradigms, such as the Internet of Things (IoT) and Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) and Artificial Intelligence(AI). The low-level granular data

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captured by these technologies can be consumed by analytics and modelling applications to enable manufacturers to develop a better understanding of their activities and processes to derive insights that can improve existing operations. Big data, as the name suggests, is an enormous amount of data. It can be defined by the 4V’s – Volume, Velocity, Variety, and Veracity. This 4V’s are responsible for complete functioning and analysis of data to obtain required output. The ability to analyze this enormous amount of data is known as big data analytics. The analysis of big data makes valuable conclusions by converting the data into statistics, that otherwise could not be exposed using less data and old-style methods.

Figure 1. The four V’s of big data To deal with this, the industry has experienced a shift from mass production to mass customization, which is simply customization at mass production efficiency. There are many technologies that help the industry in creating new ways for satisfying the ever-growing and ever-changing needs of the customer. There are, however, many challenges when it comes to adapting the production process as complexity increases with the level of customization.

Another problem with mass customization is that, the customer is unaware of her/his needs and mostly lack professional design knowledge. Due to this, most mass customized products are not as desired, and hence, the customer is rendered dissatisfied. Thus, the requirement of a personal style advisor arises; to help the customer in finding a garment that satisfies her/his needs. Since, everything is going on the web, so there are virtual style advisors available. Most of them are not affordable by every customer. For this, the recommendation systems were introduced. These systems offer the customer recommendations during the process of designing. They can be based on collaborative filtering, wherein the system recommends on the basis of the preferences of a group of users; content based filtering, wherein the system uses user profile to match an item. This requires ratings given to a product directly by the user. www.textilevaluechain.com

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“BIG DATA” CONCEPT 2.Importance of Big Data The importance of big data does not revolve around how much data a company has but how a company utilises the collected data. Every company uses data in its own way; the more efficiently a company uses its data, the more potential it has to grow. The company can take data from any source and analyse it to find answers which will enable: i. Cost Savings: Some tools of Big Data like Hadoop and Cloud-Based Analytics can bring cost advantages to business when large amounts of data are to be stored and these tools also help in identifying more efficient ways of doing business. ii. Time Reductions: The high speed of tools like Hadoop and in-memory analytics can easily identify new sources of data which helps businesses analyzing data immediately and make quick decisions based on the learnings. iii. New Product Development: By knowing the trends of customer needs and satisfaction through analytics you can create products according to the wants of customers. iv. Understand the market conditions: By analyzing big data you can get a better understanding of current market conditions. For example, by analyzing customers’ purchasing behaviors, a company can find out the products that are sold the most and produce products according to this trend. By this, it can get ahead of its competitors. v. Control online reputation: Big data tools can do sentiment analysis. Therefore, you can get feedback about who is saying what about your company. If you want to monitor and improve the online presence of your business, then, big data tools can help in all this.

is mostly influenced by human emotions, textile themes, occasion of wear etc. iii. Body Data: The body data can be in the form 2D or 3D data. For 2D, it is collected using the conventional method of body measurement. For 3D, it is collected 3D body scanners. These data can provide information like body measurement & body type. iv. Color: Color preference is an important aspect that influences a gamut of human behavior. Kobayashi’s color image scale states that color can have three attributes – warm or cool, soft or hard, clear or grayish, which associate with hue, chroma & value. These attributes can be linked with the emotion v. Technical/Production design: The technical design allows the producer to understand that how the product will be made. This makes the design of a product production friendly. It includes knowledge of pattern making, sewing etc. To extract knowledge from these data, they have to be linked together. The next section describes the proposed system that will use this data.

3. Textile big data All the data associated with a textile product is hence called as textile data. This data can have used for trend analysis, customer behavior analysis, forecasting etc.

Textile industry generates and creates various sources of data. All these data come in various forms like words, images etc. Since it is the era of fast textile, the data is rapidly growing and changing. Hence, this data can be termed as fabric big it portrays all the features of big data. Following is a broad classification of the textile data i. Material: This includes the fabric that is used to make a textile product. The fabric has various characteristics like yarn type, yarn count, yarn twist, weft & warp density, weave structure etc. To achieve different types of fabric, one or more of these are changed. This enormously changes the appearance and had of the fabric, which correlate to emotions, textile themes, colors etc. ii. Textile Design: It is the knowledge about the elements & principles of design, which combined together, gives the design of a textile product. The design of a product

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Figure 2. Data in Textile

4.Proposed System The proposed system (figure 3) is a combination of the knowledge based recommender system and a search engine. It takes from engine the ability to provide the customer with an option to write her/his query and with the help of the recommender system, offer a product to the customer. The system will have the knowledge bases mentioned in section 3. These bases will help in removing the cold start problem. The working of the system will be such that the customer can select a garment silhouette and provide his measurements, now the system will recommend a material, color, design which matches best the garment type selected as well as that looks best on the body type (to be identified using the measurements provided by the customer). If the customer likes the recommendations she/he can choose to order the garment, or else the system will improve its suggestions. The methodology to be followed to build the system is also presented

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“BIG DATA” CONCEPT in figure 3. In this methodology an algorithm has been designed in such a way that on inputting the customer requirements such as garment type and 2D body image about the preferred product on which provides recommendation about color range, fabric and style format. Afterwards, a virtual designer on basis on big data applications it will show other functionalities which are related to body scan, design knowledge etc. If the conditions are fulfilled the new design will create successfully. In this way methodology will work.

The future work involves the collection of the textile data, creating knowledge bases, establishing a link between those knowledge bases and connection it to the search engine.

7. Future Scope Besides textile industry people, technology vendors are playing significant role in transforming the digital textile industry. Leaving behind popular social media forums, firms like SAP offer high-speed analytical tools which allow you to turn good volume of data into real business value, in just a blink of an eye. Big Data Analytics of textile product suppliers can also be leveraged to have good understanding on trends and ideas, which are persisting among audience, and those which are on the verge of being forgotten. Using such insights, designers make necessary adjustments in their products, change their marketing strategies, and then launch their fine collections in the market. Thus, Big Data influences key decisions related to manufacturing textile products, and helps both the industry leaders and their targets to know each other, and jointly cooperate in taking the digital textile industry accelerative.

8. References Fig 3. An overview of the proposed system for textile data

5.Goal of Big Data Tools: Big Data tools are used for the analysis of the huge and complex data. Many organizations have now taken Big Data not just a buzz-word but a new technique for improving business. Organizations have to analyze mixed structured, semi structured or unstructured data. This is dons in search of useful business and market information and insights. Big data analytics helps organize this data for the organizations. Organizations have to analyze mixed structured, semi structured or unstructured data.

This is dons in search of useful business and market information and insights. Big data analytics helps organize this data for the organizations. Big data analytics is the process of examining large data sets containing a variety of data types -- i.e., big data to uncover hidden patterns, unknown correlations, market trends, customer preferences and other useful business information. The analytical findings can lead to more effective marketing, new revenue opportunities, better customer service, improved operational efficiency, competitive advantages over rival organizations and other business benefits.

6. Conclusion

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The study introduces the term textile data and why it can be termed as big data. It also presents the classification of the data and briefly defines each one of them. In addition to this, a system is KANISHK BARHANPURKAR Department of Computer proposed that will use this data to provide Science, SAIT, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India the customer with a mass customization SHYAM BARHANPURKAR Department of Textile service. This methodology and working of Technology, SVVV, Indore, MP state, India the proposed system is briefly described.

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PIGMENT PRINTING ON NONWOVEN FABRIC Abstract: Nonwoven fabrics are the simplest textile fabrics. Considering the environmental aspect now a days nonwoven fabrics are getting preferred in the packaging industry as well for variety of applications instead of polyethylene material. This study consists of printing of needle punched non-woven viscose rayon fabrics considering the ease of application of pigments for coloration of textile substrates. The viscose non-woven fabrics were printed with pigment using binder by varying the pigment to binder ratio and polymerizing was carried out at two different temperatures. The prints were tested for colour yield and rubbing fastness properties (dry & wet). It was observed that with increasing the concentration of binders the depth of the pigment prints gets increased also the fastness properties get improved.

Key words: Nonwoven fabric, Packaging, Viscose Rayon, Pigment, Binder, Rubbing fastness

1.Introduction: Nonwoven fabrics are the simplest textile fabrics. Its classic example is felt. The first well documented discovery of felt dates back 3500-3000 BC. It was made from hairs of various animals. The term “Nonwoven fabrics” was applied to new modern techniques, which were totally based on new principles, by U.S.A. in 1965. “Non-woven fabrics” is being defined into different ways by different literatures; the term defined by “Textile oregano” in 1965 is as follows: “Nonwoven fabrics are products made of parallel laid, cross laid or randomly laid webs bonded with application of adhesive or thermoplastic fibre under application of heat and pressure.”

Pigments are substance in particular forms. They are essentially, insoluble in the media into which they are incorporated, and are mechanically dispersing there in order to modify the colour and light scattering properties of such media.

In other words nonwoven fabric can be simply defined as a fabric those can be produced by a variety of processes other than weaving and knitting.

The nonwoven fabric properties depends on following particulars to an great extent, 1. The choice of fibers.

2. Technology which determines how the fibers are to be arranged.

3. The bonding process and the bonding agent.

Fabric properties of nonwovens range from crisp to that soft-to-the –touch to harsh, impossible-to-tear to ex-

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tremely weak. This leads to a wide range of end products such as nappies, filters, teabags, geotextiles, etc. some of which are durable and others are disposable.

The first stage in the manufacturing process of nonwoven fabrics is “production of web” and another is “bonding of web by using several methods”. Some of those (binding methods) are felting, adhesive bonding, thermal bonding, stitch bonding, needle punching, hydro-entanglement and spin laying.

1.1 Rayon: In the man-made fiber, rayon (viscose) has been the leader in bringing about changes in the industry and today finds practical use in a wide variety of fabrics.

Nonwoven viscose rayon fabric can be used as an alternative to polyethylene based packaging materials, bags since it can be processed easily and available in variety of descriptions.

1.2 Printing: Printing improves the appearance and aesthetic value of the substrate. Dyes and pigments are generally used for printing textile substrate. Pigments are substance in particular forms. They are essentially, insoluble in the media into which they are incorporated, and are mechanically dispersed there in order to modify the color and light scattering properties of such media. Pigment printing on textile substrate offers prints with good economy and easy application conditions.

1.2.1 Pigment printing on Viscose Nonwoven fabric: Pigments are insoluble in water and do no affinity for the textile substrate. Pigment printing is most economical printing process which allows maximum output of goods because of the elimination of washing off and thereby reduces the effluent generation. It is popular due to quick sampling and high printing speeds.

1.3 BINDER • Since pigments do not have affinity for textile substrate those are bound with textile substrate with the help of binder. Binder actually holds the pigment particles and sandwich it between fabric surface and its transparent three dimensional polymeric elastic film which is formed during polymerization at elevated temperature.

• In addition to binder another component is also added to the textile pigment printing paste and that is called fixer. Fixers are mostly urea formaldehyde pre-condensates which help in improving rubbing fastness of pigment by strengthening of binder cross links to hold pigment on the textile substrate.

2.Plan of work: 2.1 Material:- Viscose needle punched nonwoven fabric 80 gsm

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TECHNICAL ARTICLE 2.2 Chemical:-Commercially available Red and Blue Pigment, Acrylic based Binder and synthetic thickener, Diammonium phosphate, Urea of L.R grade 2.3 Equipments:- Printing table, Wooden baby Screen 12�x12�, Mechanical stirrer of 3000 rpm, Laboratory stenter machine, Drier, Computer Colour matching system Macbeth Colour Eye-3000, Crock Meter 2.4 Print Recipe:- The pigment pastes were prepared by using following formulations.

Formulation -1

Formulation -2

Formulation -3

Pigment

1g

2g

4g

Binder

X1 /X2/ X3 g

X1 /X2/ X3 g

X1 /X2/ X3 g

DAP

5g

5g

5g

Urea

3g

3g

3g

Fixer CCL

1g

1g

1g

Water

5 ml (if required)

5 ml (if required)

5 ml (if required)

Synthetic thickener

Remaining

Remaining

Remaining

Total

100 gm

100 g

100 g

X1 /X2/ X3 stands for varied Pigment to binder ratio as1:2, 1:3 and 1:5respectively.

2.5 Process Sequence : Printing 4 min)

Drying

olymerization (at 140 and 1500C for

2.6 Testing : The colour strength (K/S values) of pigment prints was measured on Macbeth computer colour matching system and Rubbing fastness (dry and wet) of the prints was assessed on Crock meter.

3. Results and Discussion 3.1 Effect of binder to pigment ratio and temperature on colour strength of Red pigment: Table number 1 indicates the effect of binder to pigment ratio and temperature on colour strength of Red pigment.

4%

1:5

8.84

9.03

1:2

11.21

11.42

1:3

11.34

11.59

1:5

11.62

11.74

Table no.1 The results from table no 1 and Graph No. 1 indicate the effect of pigment to binder ratio and polymerization temperature on the colour yield of red pigment. The K/S value of 1% concentration of pigment for the pigment to binder ratio 1:2 is 7.52 and that of for 1:3 and 1:5 ratio are 7.81 and 7.97 at 1400C polymerization temperature. For the

same concentration the K.S values at 1500C are 8.05, 8.62 and 8.77 respectively. Thus there is significant increase in the colour strength of red pigment with increasing binder concentration and polymerization temperature. This can be attributed to the fact that 1:5 ratio of pigment to binder shows higher colour yield where good cross linking of binder is achieved and prints are brighter.

3.2 Effect of binder to pigment ratio and temperature on colour strength of Blue pigment: Table number 2 indicates the effect of binder to pigment ratio and temperature on colour strength of Blue pigment.

% Colour

Pigment to binder ratio

1%

2%

Pigment to Colour strength binder ratio Curing Temperature

1:2

1%

2%

Curing Temperature 1400C

1500C

1:2

12.53

12.81

1:3

12.86

13.09

1:5

13.02

13.14

1:2

14.01

14.08

% Colour

Colour strength

1400C

1500C

7.52

7.66

1:3

14.18

14.29

1:5

14.32

14.54

1:2

15.03

15.21

1:3

7.81

7.89

1:5

7.97

8.05

1:2

8.51

8.62

1:3

15.19

15.37

1:3

8.63

8.77

1:5

15.23

15.49

4%

The results from table no 2 and Graph no.2 indicate

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TECHNICAL ARTICLE the effect of pigment to binder ratio and polymerization temperature on the colour yield of blue pigment. The K.S value of 1% concentration of pigment for the pigment to binder ratio 1:2 is 12.53 and that of for 1:3 and 1:5 ratio are 12.86 and 13.02 at 1400C polymerization temperature. For the same concentration the K.S values at 1500C

Results from table no.3 show that the dry rubbing fastness properties of red pigment at 1% concentration with pigment to binder ratio 1:2 is 3-4 when polymerization is carried out at 1400 C and that of 1:3 and 1: 5 ratio are 3-4 and 4 respectively. This indicates that with increasing pigment to binder ratio, dry and wet rubbing fastness properties of pigment get improved which can be attributed to the fact that the increased ratio ensures better cross linking of binder polymeric film because of increased cross linking sites and there by enhance the rubbing fastness properties. Similar trend was observed in the case of wet rubbing fastness at all pigment concentration levels.

3.4 Effect of binder to pigment ratio and temperature on rubbing fastness of Blue Pigment: Table number 4 indicates the effect of binder to pigment ratio and temperature on rubbing fastness properties of Blue pigment % Colour

are 12.81, 13.09 and 13.14 respectively. Thus there is significant increase in the colour strength of blue pigment with increasing binder concentration and polymerization temperature. This can be attributed to the fact that 1:5 ratio of pigment to binder shows higher colour yield where good cross linking of polymeric film of binder is achieved and prints are brighter.

1%

2%

3.3 Effect of binder to pigment ratio and temperature on rubbing fastness of Red Pigment: Table number 3 indicates the effect of binder to pigment ratio and temperature on rubbing fastness properties of Red pigment. % Colour

1%

2%

4%

Pigment to binder ratio

Rubbing Fastness Rubbing Fastness rating (Dry) rating (Wet) Curing Temperature

Curing Temperature

1400C

1500C

1400C

1500C

1:2

3-4

3-4

2

1-2

1:3

3-4

3-4

2-3

2-3

1:5

4

4

3

3

1:2

3

3

2

1-2

1:3

3

3-4

2-3

2-3

1:5

3-4

4

3

2-3

1:2

2-3

3

2

1-2

1:3

3-4

3

2

2

1:5

4

4

3

2-3

1:5

4

4

3

2-3

Table no. 3

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Pigment to binder ratio

1:2

Rubbing Fastness rating (Dry)

Rubbing Fastness rating (Wet)

Curing Temperature

Curing Temperature

1400C

1500C

1400C

1500C

3-4

3-4

2

2

1:3

3-4

3-4

2-3

2-3

1:5

4

4

3

3

1:2

3

3

2

2

1:3

3

3-4

2-3

2-3

1:5

3-4

4

3

3

1:2

2-3

3

2

2

1:3

3-4

3-4

2-3

2-3

1:5

4

4

3

3

Table no 4 Results from table no.4 show that the dry rubbing fastness properties of blue pigment at 1% concentration with pigment to binder ratio 1:2 is 3-4 when polymerization is carried out at 1400 C and that of 1:3 and 1: 5 ratio are 3-4 and 4 respectively. This indicates that with increasing pigment to binder ratio, dry and wet rubbing fastness properties of pigment get improved which can be attributed to the fact that the increased ratio ensures better cross linking of binder polymeric film because of increased cross linking sites and three by enhance the rubbing fastness properties.

Similar trend was observed in the case of wet rubbing fastness at all pigment concentration levels.

4. Conclusion: From the results it can be concluded that,

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TECHNICAL ARTICLE 1. Nonwoven fabric has greater share in market and considering the environmental aspect it is considered as substitute for plastic packaging material.

2. The packaging material made of nonwovens can be made attractive by printing process.

3. Since pigment printing offers prints with better print economy and ease of application, printed nonwovens have more demand in market.

4. Nonwoven fabric printed with pigment exhibited brighter prints with increased colour yield which was measured in terms of K/S value with increasing pigment to binder ratio. 1:5 ratios produce brighter prints of increased colour yield as compared with 1:2 and 1:3 ratios.

4. The dry and wet rubbing fastness properties of pigments were also found improved with increasing pigment to binder ratio.

5. Pigment to binder ratio of 1:3 and 1:5 can be recommended for printing nonwoven fabrics using pigments.

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MEDICAL TEXTILE OPPORTUNITIES FOR NEW ENTREPRENEURS IN MEDICAL TEXTILES - A SUN RISE INDUSTRY AND ROLE OF CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE SITRA IN PROMOTION OF MEDICAL TEXTILES Abstract India is the second largest player in textiles after China.

But when it comes to technical textiles where almost 16 different fields have been identified, India is still an infant.

Medical textiles is one of the fastest growing technical textile fields in India and across the globe. Medical textiles is a sunrise industry. Medical textiles comprises of as simple products such as wipes to life saving and more complex products such as vascular grafts. India being second largest populous country in the world, with more baby birth rates and increase in average lifespan, the demand for medical textiles is going to increase year on year. Moreover, capabilities to produce cost effective medical textile products opens up doors of the international market also.

The paper presents an introduction, classification, scope and challenges in the field of medical textiles.

Key Words: Technical Textiles, Medical Textiles, Opportunities, Market

1. INTRODUCTION Medical textiles is one of the fastest growing technical textile fields in India. Technical textiles are the textiles developed and manufactured textiles to meet specific functional properties for specific end use, engineered required by combining properties of different textile structures and materials. Below is the Classification list of technical textiles: yy Medical textiles : hygiene and medical (Healthcare Textiles) yy Agro Tech : agriculture, aquaculture, horticulture and forestry yy Build Tech : building and construction yy Cloth Tech : technical components of footwear and clothing yy Geo Tech : geotextiles and civil engineering yy HomeTech : technical components of furniture, household textiles yy Indu Tech : filtration, conveying, cleaning and other industrial uses yy MobilTech : automobiles, shipping, railways and aerospace yy Oeko Tech : environmental protection yy Pack Tech : packaging components yy Pro Tech : personal and property protection yy Sport Tech : sport and leisure 2. Classification of medical textile products Medical textiles are those technical textiles in day to day life for maintaining hygienic & health conditions as well

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as in assisting / performing medical | surgical procedure including inplantables. yy Corresponding author: coemed@sitra.org.in; lab.bd@ sitra.org.in.

Medical textiles can be divided into: 1) Consumer products – Eg: Sanitary napkins, baby diapers, wipes, adult diapers 2) Hospital products – Eg: Surgical gowns, surgical drapes Medical textiles is classified into 5 categories • Implantable :- inside the patient’s body • Non-Implantable :- on the patient’s body • Extracorporeal device :- Besides the patient’s body • Healthcare textiles :- For the body (Usually hospital products) • Hygiene textiles :- for the body (Usually consumer products)

2.1 List of products in all sectors 3. Features of medical textiles The desired features of medical textiles would be Hygiene and Healthcare Medical Textiles 1. Surgical gown/drapes 2. Surgical facemasks 3. Beddings, blankets, sheets, pillow covers.

4. Feminine hygiene products 5. Wet wipes 6. Adult incontinence diapers 7. Underpads

NonImplantable Medical Textiles

Implantable Medical Textiles

1. Compression stockings 2. Wound dressings 3. Waddings 4. Tubular bandages 5. Gauze 6. Pressure garments

1. Vascular grafts 2. Abdominal wall patches/meshes 3. Sutures 4. Heart patches/valves 5. Stents: pet monofilament 6. Tendon/ligament reinforcements 7. Dura patches (Nonwoven) 8. Artificial veins 9. Artificial joints and bones 10. Artificial skin and artificial cartilage

Extracorporeal Medical Textiles

1. Hemodialysis 2. Artificial liver 3. Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation 4. Artificial heart 5. HME filter 6. Leukodepletion filter

• High levels of breathability/Non breathability/barrier performance • Hydrophilic/ Hydrophobic • Broad spectrum of antimicrobial resistance such as bacteria, viral, fungal, mould resistance etc • Biocompatibility • Cell adhesion/Cell non-adhesion surface • 2 D & 3 D structures • Sterilability

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MEDICAL TEXTILE • Biodegradable/Non biodegradable • Elasticity/non elasticity • Strength

4. Textile structure in Medical textiles Medical textile products can be made from each stage of textile manufacturing. Textiles structuring is broadly divided into 4 categories: - fabric, yarn, fabric and garments.

Product such as surgical cotton, wadding, ear buds, etc., is produced directly from textile fibres. Products such as sutures, heart valve stitching thread, dental floss, dialysis membrane filaments produced gram filament / yarn etc.

In fabric structure there is further classification in terms of woven (vascular graft, reusable bed sheets & pillow covers), non woven (surgical gowns, disposable bed sheets & pillow covers), knitted (vascular graft, hernial mash, heart patch fabric), braded (Anterior cruciate ligament sutures etc), (rotator cuff). All the operational theatre garments come under stitched garment products (surgical gowns, bed sheets, etc), products made up of different textile structure (sanitary napkin/under pad, fibers of non woven, wound dressing – fibers + woven/non woven/knitted structure, etc.

5. Overall opportunities in medical textiles Opportunities lies in technical textile machine manufacturing, specialised raw material manufacturing, setting up laboratories to test these materials /products, manpower training, etc.

• Many medical textile products are imported and not manufactured in India, so there is a huge potential for manufacturing them in India. Many medical textiles products are classified as medical devices. There is no concrete data available for medical textiles, but 80% of medical devices are imported.

• Though India is the second most populous country, the penetration of medical textiles is very less in India due to factors such as less awareness among people, cost of products and non availability of many products to common people. But now the usage of medical\ technical textiles is increasing due to the new generation with a higher disposable income, more education, easy access to media/internet.

balisation has created / helped in creating more awareness about usage of medical textiles in day-to-day life such as wipes, sanitary napkins, diapers to maintain cleanliness & hygiene environment.

• Many medical textiles are used for maintaining an hygienic environment. Young Indians are interested in more comfort and cleanliness.

• Availability of almost all basic raw materials in India.

• Mandating suggestions by GOI in different ministries such as MoD, MoHFW, MoLE, MoR, MoHA. • Government initiatives by creating centres of excellence in different fields of technical textiles. Formation of Centre of excellence for medical textile at SITRA has helped industry in many areas such as R&D, standard formation, testing/ characterisation etc.

• Proactive approach of government towards boosting TT sectors by different government scheme for business community in terms of subsidies, special zones (Meditech zone, Visakhapatnam), ATUF, TMTT, etc as well as promotion of the TT scheme by every state government.

• Government is planning to mandate a few products as per BIS standards; this will help to eliminate usage of substandard products (manufactured or imported).

• Creating awareness such as distribution of free napkins by many NGOs as well as government agencies • Cheap labour and abundance of manpower, cheap power compared to many countries can help manufacturing cheaper medical textile products.

•Mandating purchase from MSMEs • Schemes such as Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, Ayushman Bharat.

• M/C manufacturing for medical textiles such as Sanitary napkin making ,face mask making m/c etc have potential to grow huge.

6. Sector wise opportunities in medical textiles

Concept

• Higher child birthrates - mother and child.

• Medical tourism - Cost of getting treated is cheaper and faster compared to the developed countries.

• More modern hospitals are coming up, so growth of medical textiles is proportional by hiked with growth of medical business.

• Increased awareness for Medical insurance. Medical insurance companies insist hospitals to maintain a proper environment to reduce risk of HAI.

Commodity

• The shift in Indian culture to western influence and glo-

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8.Initiatives required

Usually not many life saving products are manufactured in India. India is almost fully dependant on imports. Ultimately, very costly products are not affordable to an average Indian. If invented and manufactured by Indian companies, the cost may come down drastically. Lives of many Indians can be saved. Though the demand is low and the regulatory requirements are stringent, the profit margins are high.

Government can incentivize manufacturing in terms of a) Converting and b) Rolled goods manufacturing for development of more customized entrepreneurial activity. An entire ecosystem of R&D, market linkages (treaty), incubation services, easy terms in technology development and manufacturing for global markets can be developed

6.2 Non-implantable These are the products that are used on the skin. Low profit but high demand.

6.3 Extracorporeal devices Same as Implantable life saving and again very costly products dependent highly on imports. Though the demand is low and the regulatory requirements are stringent, the profit margins are high.

6.4 Hygiene textiles Not much dependant on imports but still MNCs of foreign origin have considerable stake compared to the Indian manufacturers. Demand is high and investment required is low.

6.5 Healthcare textiles Not much dependant on imports but still MNCs of foreign origin have considerable stake compared to Indian manufacturers. Demand is high and investment required is low.

7.Challenges for medical textile business • Medical device products may require license to produce or sell products in India (New medical device rule is implemented recently).

• And still classification of medical textiles under different categories as medical devices will take time.

• Still many medical products are needed to be classified as medical devices. It may have impact on the small scale industry.

• Lack of standards - So far, SITRA has identified many medical textile products and have developed standards for those.

• Non availability of expertise for the manufacture of specialised raw materials Kevlar, Nylon66, Aramid, etc., and machinery manufacturing techniques in India.

• Lack of interest, awareness and confidence among big industries to enter into the Medical Textile business.

• Scattered industry.

• Lack of trained skilled manpower with interdisciplinary knowledge.

• Disposal of medical textile wastes.

• Cheap import from neighbouring countries such as Bangladesh, China due to reasons such as lack of BIS standards.

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1.Development of new Infrastructure; more specialized zones such as Medtech Zone in Visakhapatnam.

2. Focus on Indian IPR regime • The Government should strengthen India’s IPR regime through development of highly equipped patent offices and provision of online patent filing facility.

3. More tax incentives & subsidies by government from raw materials to final production, machine imports, machine spares and machine manufacturing 4. Organising or funding to organize more buyers to seller meets at domestic exhibitions as well as international levels.

5. Identifying the potential and existing medical textile manufacturing clusters and help them to produce, test and market their products 6. Incentivise MSMEs who are making medical textiles by offering benefits under schemes such as TUF. 7. For a better entrepreneurial resurgence, incentives should be provided to develop more indigenous machines. Subsidy to develop machines and technology and offering the same at rebated rates for easy paybacks for the startups.

9. Statistics on medical textiles in India The total market size of medical textiles was $600 million in 2014 and reached $780 million by 2017 growing at 8-9% CAGR. In 2014, surgical dressings and surgical sutures alone accounted for more than 50 per cent at $380. Universal health coverage scheme, 100 per cent FDI under automatic route and support to PPP model to improve availability of health care services are among the initiatives which will have an impact on consumption.

The medical textile market in India was at around $600 million in 2014, of which surgical dressings and surgical sutures alone accounted for about more than 50 per cent at $380. Universal health coverage scheme, 100 per cent FDI under automatic route and support to PPP model to improve availability of health care services are among the initiatives which will impact consumption (Medical textiles set to grow at 9% CAGR in India, ITJ, September, 2015).

The market for medical textiles, segment-wise is given in the following table. (R. Alagirusamy and A. Das, 2010, Technical textile yarns-Industrial and medical applica-

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Medical Textiles

Market size

Annual growth rate (%)

Surgical dressings

$154.43 million

5-10

Healthcare textiles

$26.72 million

13-16

Sutures

$98 million

15-20

Sanitary napkin

-

8-10

Diapers

$17.4 million

5-10

Medical implants $154.43 million and devices

10-15

10. Role of SITRA as a Centre of Excellence in Medical Textiles Our national / International clients include textiles covering both conventional textiles, technical as well as nontextile units, manufacturing industries, traders, universities, individuals, defence, government agencies, etc. The basic services offered by CoE – Medical Textiles are as below

fied scientific staff to carry forward R & D in the field of medical / technical textiles. Considering the highly interdisciplinary nature of research, SITRA has well qualified scientists team of Ph.Ds, Masters, Bachelors, Diploma holder’s from various disciplines such as textiles technology / engineering, chemistry, medical textiles, microbiology, bio-technology, biochemistry, polymer chemistry, analytical chemistry. The scientists aim to develop various medical textile / Technical textile products by developing different textile structures, materials, and processes. SITRA has developed many products using in-house funding or by contract-based research with industry partners or by getting funding from public / private agencies.

Few of the products developed at SITRA are listed below: Product Name

Enduse

1

Orthopedic Shoe Insoles

The developed product reduces the risk of foot ulcer in diabetes patients

2

Hernia Mesh

A warp knitted mesh fabric helps to fasten the hernia and enhance the healing process

3

Cut resistant garments

The cut resistant garment protects the wearer against injuries caused by sharp objects

4

3D Spacer fabric Compression bandages

The developed product helps to avoid the complications associated with the conventional compression bandage such as skin necrosis and also reduces the treatment period

5

Nano finished surgical gowns

Nano finished surgical gowns have improved finish durability as compared to conventional finished surgical gown

6

Spunlaced nonwoven wound care dressings

The developed products handle heavy exudates and remove of malodour from the wound site

7

Chitosan Coated Controlled release of the cotton gauzes drug in the coated gauzes ensures availability the drug in the wound site for a longer duration

S.No

10.1 Testing and Evaluation CoE-Medical Textiles has Analytical, Physical, Microbiological and Biotechnology, Material Characterization and tissue culture laboratories with high end equipment such as GCMS, LCMS, HPTLC, FeSEM, etc. The centre provides testing facilities as per national / international standards such as BIS, ISO, ASTM, DIN, Kenyan standards, etc. The laboratories are one of the best of its kind in the world, with NABL Certification as per ISO 17025 with well qualified and experienced staff.

11. Technical consultancy SITRA scientists regularly provide consultancy in different areas of medical textile products/manufacturing/quality process, etc. So far more than 60 technical consultancies have been provided by SITRA CoE.

12. Research and Development

Product Image

SITRA has well-equipped research laboratories with quali-

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Embroidery based wound dressings

Leukodepletion blood filter

The embroidery based woud dressings stimulate angiogensis in the wound site which helps to increase the rate of wound healing The nanotechnology based developed products provide better leukocyte filtraion efficiency without affecting the other blood components

Herbal drug incorporated PCL Nanomembrane

The usage of herbal drugs to treat the infected wounds improves the wound healing efficiency

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Rotator cuff repair devices

The developed products reduces the treatment period

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PVA/Chitosan nanomembrane

The developed product which have antibacterial property helps to treat the infected wounds

13

Hospital Bed Linen with Improved thermal properties

To improve the comfort of the immobile patients

14

Bifurcated Vascular Graft

To increase the life of the patient who has under gone a graft replacement by means of improved blood flow

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Barbed BiDirectional Surgical Sutures.

The developed knot failure sutures help to avoid the complications associated with conventional sutures such as knot failure

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HME Filter

The developed HME filters are used as a filter in breathing circuits to remove micro – flora and maintain humidity and heat of the supplied air

SITRA CoE has published more than 45 research articles in reputed journals. Apart from the publications, SITRA CoE has also filed a few patents.

SITRA has done many product developments with industrial assistance. Contract research projects are partly sponsored by the Ministry of Textiles and - partly by the Industry.

1.Development of Collagen coated hernia mesh with Cologenesis Health Care Pvt Ltd as the industry partner.

2.Development of mopping pad using non-woven and woven structures with Care Med as the industry partner.

Some of these projects were commercialized under process of being commercialized. The details are as follows.

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Instrument/Equipment End use Name

Equipment/ Instrument Image

1

Compression bandage pressure measurement system

The developed instrument will serve as a catalyst for more research in development of advanced compression bandages

2

SITRA Barb Introducer Machine (SBIM)

The developed equipment helps to produce barbed surgical sutures that lead to knotless surgical procedures.

3

Sitra Particulate Filtration Efficinecy Tester (SPFET)

The developed instrument helps to initiate new research in the field of surgical as well as N95 masks interms of raw material optimization

4

Sitra Blood Penetration Resistance Tester (SBPRT)

The developed instrument helps research and development in surgical gowns towards raw material optimization

5

SITRA Bacterial Filtration Efficiency Tester (SBFET)

This SITRA developed instrument helps in research and development in surgical face masks towards the consumption of raw materials and their characterization

6

SITRA Advanced Splash Resistance Tester

The developed instrument is used to assess the resistance of given material against high velocity stream of blood

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SITRA Fluid Handling Capacity Tester

The developed instrument is used to assess the fluid handling properties of most types of wound care dressings with exudates absorbing capacity

Name of the Product / Process

Name of the Industry

1)

Nanofinish – antimicrobial

M/s Erode Venus dyes and Chemicals

2)

Collagen Coated Hernia Mesh

M/s Cologenesis HealthCare Products Pvt Ltd

3)

Mopping Pad / Laparatomy sponge

M/s Caremed surgical

4)

Vascular Graft

M/s TTK Healthcare Ltd

5)

Reusable facemasks

M/s Kristaa Clean Carbon Pvt ltd

6)

4 layer wound dressings

7)

Chitosan Dressings

8)

Curcumin Dressings

9)

EDTA WIPES

10)

Surgical mask

11)

BVB Fabric

M/s Shiva Tex yarn

12)

Hospital Bed Linen

M/s Kadri Wovens

13)

Gelatin based nanotech wound dressings

M/s Nitta Gelatin

14)

Biodegradable sanitary napkin, Adult diaper

M/s Aprus Bio-medical Innovations Pvt. Ltd

S.No

DRDO (Defence Research and Development Organization)

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Nanofinish – antimicrobial

M/s Erode Venus dyes and Chemicals

2)

Collagen Coated Hernia Mesh

M/s Cologenesis HealthCare Products Pvt Ltd

3)

Mopping Pad / Laparatomy sponge

M/s Caremed surgical

4)

Vascular Graft

M/s TTK Healthcare Ltd

5)

Reusable facemasks

M/s Kristaa Clean Carbon Pvt ltd

6)

4 layer wound dressings

7)

Chitosan Dressings

8)

Curcumin Dressings

9)

EDTA WIPES

10)

Surgical mask

11)

BVB Fabric

M/s Shiva Tex yarn

12)

Hospital Bed Linen

M/s Kadri Wovens

13)

Gelatin based nanotech M/s Nitta Gelatin wound dressings

14)

Biodegradable sanitary napkin, Adult diaper

DRDO (Defence Research and Development Organization)

b) Alcohol swabs / Wet wipes manufacturing facility c) Cotton wool roll conversion machine for manufacturing various sizes of absorbent cotton. d) Sanitary napkin manufacturing facility e) Spunlace fabric manufacturing facility for manufacturing raw material for wet wipes tissues. f) Ultrasonic sealing/stitching machine for manufacturing disposables surgical gowns. g) Coating and laminating machine for finishing medical textile substrates with antimicrobial, blood repellent finishes, etc.

14. Standards formulation SITRA has developed few medical textile standards for the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) for standardizing the quality of the medical textile products. The status of the various BIS standards for which SITRA has played a role is shown in Figure 1.

M/s Aprus Bio-medical Innovations Pvt. Ltd

Figure 1 Status of BIS standards initiated by SITRA

13. Pilot Scale Production / Incubation services Looking to the future local and international demand in medical / technical textiles, SITRA has already established an incubation centre. The centre aims to help new entrepreneurs or enterprise transformation for existing enterprises in emerging fields of medical / technical textiles. All necessary assistance for developing a new product from the concept stage to final production would be rendered at the incubation centre. SITRA CoE Incubation centre has industrial scale production machinery for producing various medical textile products such as sanitary napkin, face mask, wet wipes / alcohol swabs and cotton wool rolls. These machines can be used by new entrepreneurs at nominal rates for production of the products.

SITRA CoE has state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities with an area of 60, 214 sq.ft for promoting the medical textile products to the interested entrepreneurs. SITRA CoE has the following medical textile product manufacturing facilities. a) Face masks manufacturing facility for manufacturing tie and ear loop type face masks

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SITRA has formulated standards for the following medical textile products, for the first time in India, in association with the Bureau of Indian Standards.

BIS Standard

Product details Paraffin Gauze dressings

IS 16291:2014

Knitted viscose primary dressings

IS 16290:2014

Orthopaedic Stockinet

IS 16302:2014

Cast Padding for orthopaedic plaster

IS 16303:2014

Povidone iodine ointment based knitted dressing – Specification

IS 16466:2016

Graduated medical compression stockings – Specification

IS 16467:2016

Absorbent cotton – Specification

IS 16468:2016

Open weave bandage

IS 16469:2016

Elastic surgical adhesive tape

IS 16470:2016

Nonwoven Bandage roll - Specification

IS 16660:2017

Absorbent cotton ribbon gauze

IS 16670:2017

Belladonna adhesive plaster

IS 16671:2017

Salicylic acid adhesive plaster

IS 16668:2017

Tubular bandages

IS 16946:2018

Permeable Nonwoven surgical adhesive Tape

IS 16948:2018

X-ray detectable absorbent cotton gauze

IS 16950:2018

Elastic adhesive dressings

IS 16669:2017

Adhesive Extension plaster

IS 16949:2018 IS 16289:2014

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Detailed project report contains information about the rawmaterials, machinery and space requirement for producing the meditech products. It helps the new and existing entrepreneur to understand the product manufacturing method and cost required for starting the industry in medical textiles field. The list of detailed project reports prepared by the CoE meditech is as follows.

1)

Surgical Non-woven face mask

2)

Alcohol wet wipe

3)

Non woven surgical aprons

4)

Compression stockings

5)

Crepe bandage

6)

Wet wipes

7)

Surgeon’s cap

8)

Shoe cover

9)

Sanitary napkin

10)

Surgical cotton

11)

Buffount cap

12)

Surgical gauze

13)

Adult diaper

14)

Baby diaper

15)

Disposable under wears

16)

Hernia mesh

17)

Underpad+

16. Training / Seminars / Workshop Many techno-commercial programs for the training of technical manpower as well as for new entrepreneurial startups have been carried out by the division. During period 2011-18 (upto Oct 2018), 6998 people were trained.

SITRA has already conducted more than 248 training programs for the benefit of new entrepreneurs who aspire to start a business in medical textiles. SITRA has also conducted several programs/ seminars/ talks in different states such as Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Telangana, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, etc. Our training programmes have benefited new startups to go in for full scale business ventures producing medical textile products. Some of the technical and entrepreneur development programs are as follows.

1) National workshop on plasma techniques for textiles, Coimbatore 2) One day seminar on business development in technical and medical textiles, Telangana, Visakhapatnam – Andra Pradesh, Kerala, Bengaluru – Karnataka.

3) Absorbent Hygiene Medical Textiles, Coimbatore

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4) Physical and Biological Characterization of Medical textile products, Coimbatore 5) Entrepreneurship Development Programs, Coimbatore 6) Business Development in Specific (for sanitary napkin, baby diaper etc) Medical Textiles, Coimbatore 7) Training on Wound Care Dressings, Coimbatore Some of the International workshops conducted by the CoE are as follows: 1) International workshop on “Electro spinning and Electro spraying” 2) International workshop on “Biocompatibility evaluation of medical devices” 3) International seminar on “Advances in medical textiles” 4) International seminar on “Medical textiles – Smart & functional materials – polymer processing & fibre synthesis” 5) International seminar on “Implantable medical textiles Some of the National level workshops conducted by the CoE are as follows: 1) National workshop on “Drug delivery & tissue engineering”.

2) 3 days national level workshop on “Bio composites & fibre reinforced polymers”.

3) National workshop on “National Workshop on PLASMA techniques for textiles”.

4) National workshop on “Characterization of medical textile products”.

5) National workshop on “Hygiene medical textiles” in association with ICAR. 6) National work shop on “Medical textiles products and its scope”.

SITRA COE offers customised training as well as hands on training based on requirements from industries, academic, government agencies in the area of technical textile garment/product manufacturing (gowns, pillow covers, heavy duty stitching etc), analytical chemistry (ICMPS, GCMS, LCMSMS, HPTLC, HPLC, HPLC, UV-VIS, FTIR etc), polymer & biomaterials (Electro spinning bio/new polymer for medical textiles, wound dressing etc) physical textile of medical\technical textiles, Micro biological, Tissue culture, In vitro toxicity testing and evolution and manufacturing of healthcare & hygiene textiles.

17. Information resources

SITRA library has books and journals in the field of both technical and medical textiles from reputed publishers.

18. Prototype development

So far, SITRA CoE has developed 53 prototype products

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Projected physical deliv- Achievement erables/Activity Numbers of trained by CoE Prototypes (Numbers)

persons 6998 developed 53

Number of products com- 14 mercialized / under commercialization Number of specification/ 49 Standards formulated Research projects (Num- 28 bers) Number of training pro- 248 gramme/ Seminars/ Conferences organized No. of research papers 45 published Number of DPRs prepared 22 to set up technical textile units Number of technical con- 63 sultancy assignments

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KETANKUMAR VADODARIA E. SANTHINI, T. SURESH RAM, ABHILASH KULKARNI, D. VEERASUBRAMANIAN K. AGALYA DEVI. The South India Textile Research Association, Coimbatore, India

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POST EVENT REPORT MSME’S 100 DAYS SUMMING UP PROGRAMM, BHIWANDI Government of India, Ministry of Textiles, Regional Office of the Textile Commissioner, Navi Mumbai has organised Summing up of 100 days Outreach Programme on creating synergy for MSMEs in Textile Sector on 9.2.2019 at Hotel Regent Garden, Bhiwandi, Dist. Thane. The even was

inaugurated by Shri Kapil Moreshwar Patil, Hon’ble Member of Parliament. The other diginitaries includes, Shri S.P. Verma, Director and Officer-in-Charge, Regional Office of the Textile Commissioner, Navi Mumbai, Shri Sivakumar S, Deputy Director, R.O Txc, Navi Mumbai, Shri J.N. Bharati, Lead District Manger, Bank of Maharashtra, Shri Sagar Goha, Assistant General Manager, Indian Bank, Shri Purushotam K Vanga, Ex-Chairman, PDEXCIL Mumbai, Shir M.Y. Momin, Secretary, Bhiwandi Powerloom Association, Shri Vinod V. Chotani, Shri V.D. Choubey, Deputy Director & delegates from Powerloom Industry of Thane District attended the said event.

Shri S.P. Verma, Director and Officer-in-Charge in his address informed that the Hon’ble Prime Minister has launched the Historic support and outreach programme on 2.11.2018 for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME)Sector. The five key aspects i.e access to credit, access to market, technology upgradation, ease of doing business and sense for security for employees are for facilitating the MSME sector. Ministry of Textiles, Office of the Textile Commissioner has selected 8 districts through out India for MSME campaign, out of which Thane Districts is one of the selected District. The said even is organised “SHOWCASING INITATIVES AND ACHIEVEMENTS-100 DAYS MSME CAMPAIGN SUPPORT AND OUTREACH IN TEXTILE INDUSTRY OF Thane District”. Under the said programme Group meeting, three Seminars and Awareness programme was organised . Buyer Seller Meet (B2B)an exhibition of Powerloom Products was conducted at Bhiwandi for 3 days to promote the market and expand their business. There were 26 exhibitors and around 400 traders and buyers visited the meet. 109 weavers enrolled under social security scheme of Group Insurance. 64 Entrepreneurs of MSME made use of Technology Upgradation Fund Scheme and availed benefit of aRs. 7.13 Crore. Further 13 new applications attracting an total February 2019

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investment of Rs.49 crores is under process. 11 New applications under Mudra loan has been received for availing 1.1 crore of term loan. He briefed the comprehensive scheme for powerloom sector development in Powertex India scheme and informed scheme wise achievements made during 100 days by Regional Office of the Textile Commissioner, Navi Mumbai. He appealed all the participants to avail benefits of the Powertex India schemes for the Textile Sector.

Shri Kapil Moreshwar Patil, Hon’ble Member of Parliament inaugurated the programme and released Booklet on 100 days Outreach Programme on Creating Synergy for MSMEs in Textile Sector of Thane Dist. In his addressed appreciated works and efforts taken by Regional Office of the Textile Commissioner, Navi Mumbai for effective implementation of Schemes for decentralized powerloom sector in Thane District. He appealed to the entrepreneurs to avail the benefits of Government of India Schemes which are elaborated in the Booklet published in

the programme. He specifically urged to make the use of Yarn Bank Scheme, Solar Energy Scheme for Powerloom and Group Insurance Schemes. He requested the Lead Bank to simplify the process of granting loan under Pradhan Mantri Mudra Yojana and Stand up India Schemes and take a drive throughout the District for awareness of these schemes. He also requested banks to open facilitation centre in Bhiwandi area to give the benefits under the schemes. He requested the entrepreneurs to enrol their workers under unorganised worker welfare scheme which was announced recently. He requested the enterprenuers to produce quality fabrics so that Bhiwandi can be brought in the export market.

Shri J.N. Bharati, Lead District Manager, Bank Of Maharashtra, Thane explained the procedure of availing loan under 59 minute loan portal and other schmes like Mudra Yojana, Standup India, Atal pension Yojana and Jandhan yojana etc. He informed that during the 100 days campaign period 970 persons availed the benefit from the 59 minutes loan portal out of which 430 persons received disbursement.

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POST EVENT REPORT During the event specialized products manufactured in Thane Dist Cluster were displayed.

The inaugural session was followed by Panel discussion on Access to Credit, Access to Domestic and international Markets through networking, Technology upgradation, Ease of doing business and social security.

Panel discussion had a fruitful discussion with involvement of audience. Delegates have their queries which they have raised in open forum about not receiving subsidy to the right person at right time, middle man taking their shares and no pass on benefits.

Queries have been answered satisfactorily by Mr. Verma, Delegates have believed his words and looking forward for positive development on cluster and punishment for wrong doers. Also, expecting disbursement of policy money to right people at right time.

VJTI’S VASTRA 2019 – A HUGE SUCCESS The 16th edition of the annual technical summit VASTRA 2019 was celebrated on the 15th and 16th of February 2019. VASTRA’19, organized by the Textile Manufacturers Department of VJTI Mumbai, is a national level technical and fashion summit devoted in creating an unforgettable experience for all its participants and simultaneously providing unique opportunities to the budding textile technologists for showcasing their talents in front of large audiences and top-notch judges.

INDIA ITME Society was the title sponsor of Vastra’19 in association with Liva fluid fashion, A.T.E. Enterprises, Garware Technical Fibres and Suvin Advisors Pvt. Ltd. The event witnessed the presence of several hundreds of dignitaries from all over India, including the notable alumni of the Textile Manufactures Department and guests from the textile industry. The opening day commenced with the inaugural function wherein the audience was addressed by Mr.Yogesh Kusumgar (Chairman- Kusumgar Corporates), Dr. Anup Rakshit (Executive Director- ITTA), Dr. Dhiren Patel (Director- VJTI), Dr. Suranjana Gangopadhyay (HoD) and Mr Bhupendra Thakur (Head- Operations - INDIA ITME Society).

VASTRA is known for its competitive events like Technical paper presentation, Technical poster presentation, Product Marketing, Technical Quiz, Xpression, Spontaneous Sketching, Garment Display and Fashion Philia. Students from many colleges in India participated in all events which were judged by prominent personalities from the textile industry. Guest lectures were delivered by industry experts like Mr. Gurudas. Aras (Director- A.T.E. Enterprises), Rakesh Gaikwad (National Sales Manager- DSM), Mr. Pranav Khanna (Intellecap- Mumbai) and Mr. Navin Agrawal (VP- A.T.E. Enterprises).

(Director- ATE Enterprises) and Mr. Vikas Sharan (Director- Saurer Textile Solutions) as guests of honor along with Mr. Umesh Gupta (Chairman- VJTI Alumni Association) who graced the inaugural session. Highlight of the evening was the felicitation of the Golden jubilee batch of 1969 and silver jubilee batch of 1994. Final year B.Tech and DTM batches are also felicitated on this occasion.

The Textile Department has received funding under the CSR activity from Banswara Syntex Ltd., Oerlikon India, Rieter India Pvt. Ltd., Kusumgar Corporates and Saurer India Pvt Ltd . A.T.E. Enterprises has sponsored fellowships to three indigent and deserving students. Suvin Advisors has supported the department with the tender preparation, architectural and electrical designing expertise.

Funds have also been received from the generous alumni for the development of the departmental infrastructure, Textile Alumni Meet (TAM) provided a platform for interaction and networking amongst the prominent industry personnel and the students of the department. Prof. Sunil Tetambe and Student GS - Mr. Yash Trivedi thanked all participants and supports for making VASTRA 2019 a big success and they are sure that the next edition will be bigger and more eventful.

The Textile Alumni Meet (TAM) was organized under the banner of Vastra’19. The event witnessed the presence of prominent alumni of the department, Mr. Gurudas Aras

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DHAKA INT’L TEXTILE & GARMENT MACHINERY EXHIBITION (DTG) The 16th Dhaka Int’l Textile & Garment Machinery Exhibition (DTG) Concurrent with The 16th Dhaka Int’l Textile & Apparel Accessories Exhibition (Ditatex) , Bangladesh Int’l Sewing Machinery & Accessories Fair (BISMA) took place on 9th to 12th January, 2019 at International Convention City Bashundhara-ICCB. The event was organized by Bangladesh Textile Mills Association (BTMA) and Yorkers Trade & Marketing Service Co., Ltd. and managed by Chan Chao International Co., Ltd. The events are sponsored by many other associations.

2019 FAIR FACTS

Exhibitors profile was textile machinery, apparel machinery, textile and apparel accessories

INAUGURAL CEREMONY

Mr. Mosharaf HossainDirector, Bangladesh Textile Mills Association (BTMA)

Mr. Abdullah Al Mamun Vice President, Bangladesh Textile Mills Association (BTMA)

Mr. Mohammad Ali KhokonPresident, Bangladesh Textile Mills Association (BTMA)

Ms. Judy Wang President, Yorkers Trade & Marketing Service Co., Ltd.

Mr. Alamgir Shamsul AlaminPresident, The Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FBCCI)

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EXHIBITOR FEEDBACK SHIMA SEIKI-PACIFIC ASSOCIATES LED. DTG is the best platform, people in the textile and garment industry can meet together for keeping relationships and receiving new information together every year. We feel the relocation to ICCB makes our exhibiting very well, it’s the venue close to both buyers home and office and we assume the visiting number has grown 30% compare to last year at these two days.

J.A. Mukul-Asst. Gen. Manager, Sales & Marketing, Textile Division

Saurer Germany GmbH & Co.KG DTG is our only exhibit choice in bangladesh which is the best and largest show in the growing market. The show moves to ICCB looks much nicer than before, we can promote our brand better.

Gerd Moch-Senior Sales Manager

LISKY TECHNOLOGY (BD) LTD. We are satisfied with the new exhibit location ICCB and our booth. DTG is definitely the most important business platform for us in Bangladesh, we are happy with our achievement here as usual and organizer is very cooperative to support our showcasing.

M. Shoquet Rashed Mamun-Managing Director

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SRTEPC EXPORT AWARDS SPEECH OF SHRI SRI NARAIN AGGARWAL, CHAIRMAN, SRTEPC EXPORT AWARD FUNCTION ON SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2019

hope they will continue their efforts in the coming years too. Today, I am also encouraging those who missed the awards this year and look forward to see them as winners next year. We need concentrated efforts from all of you my fellow exporters to continue the good work and earn substantial export revenue for the country.

This time, Council confers the Life Time Achievement Award to Shri Ganesh Kumar Guptaji, our past Chairman and President of FIEO now, for his sincere and unstinting service to the industry. My heartiest congratulations to Shri Ganesh Kumar Guptaji.

It is indeed a privilege for me to welcome you all to the SRTEPC Annual award function 2017-18. This is our old tradition, wherein we recognise the achievers of the year amongst our outstanding and enterprising members. I and my team congratulate all the award winners for their excellent and tenacious efforts to boost our exports and

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Demand for man-made fibre (MMF) textiles all over the world is increasing as main raw material amid changes in global fashion trends. Currently MMF dominates global textile fibre consumption with 70: 30 ratio i.e., MMF 70% and 30% is Natural fibre, whereas it is just opposite in India.

In India present consumption of MMF is below 40%. This means that India has strong growth potential.

We are one of the largest producers of man-made fibres (MMF) textiles in the world with present production of over 1441 million kg of man-made fibres and over 3000

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We are the 2nd largest producer of polyester and viscose.

On our export front, current financial year has been encouraging for us. Exports have been witnessing steady growth since 2016-17 and last year exports were to the tune of US$ 6.03 billion witnessing a growth around 3% as compared to the previous year. As per provisional data, during April-November 2018-19, exports were US$ 4.07 against US$ 3.99 million during the same period of the previous year, showing a growth of nearly 2%.

The Ministry of Textiles has given us an export target of US$ 6.5 billion for the current Financial Year. So far during

April – November 2018; 63% of the export target has been achieved. I am confident that with concerted efforts of all we will be able to achieve the target.

Friends, you all are aware about the vision of the government for enhancing size of the Textile industry to USD 350 billion by 2024-25 from USD 110 billion at present.

To achieve this textile vision, present domestic fibre base has to be doubled to minimum 20 bn. kgs. Natural fibres have inherent limitations and can be increased marginally. Manmade fibre & filaments such as Polyester, Viscose, Nylon, and Acrylic are the only available alternative to create another 7- 9 billion kgs of fibre and achieving this Vision by 2024-25.

It will also require Annual Additional investment @ US$ 30 bn. for 7 years which converts to Annual additional investment of around Rs. 210,000 crores apart from the Rs. 50000 crores, required for sustenance of the existing capacity. An estimated employment of about 2.1 million persons p.a. at the rate of minimum 20 persons per crore rupees of investment will be generated by the MMF textile segment.

There are challenges before the Manmade fibre textile segment. This segment has been used as a major source for revenue generation. It has been kept under different

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tax slabs in the GST regime which has created Inverted Duty Structure due to which huge working capital has been blocked. It has also deprived the MMF textile segment from availing rebate on GST paid on input services and IGST paid on import of capital goods. Double Taxation on Ocean freight in GST regime is additional burden on the exporters.

While our exports are grappling with these challenges, imports have been increasing into India. Imports of MMF textiles such as fibres, yarns and fabrics into India from world during 2017-18 was over US$ 2000 million of which from China alone was around US$ 1000 million which is 50% of our total imports of MMF textiles. SRTEPC has been briefing this concern to the Government at various forums.

While the industry needs to do its best to fight competition, we need government support to supplement our efforts. China provides substantial government support and this needs to be matched in India also for development of the Indian MMF textile industry.

The present scenario is of both opportunities and challenges. Our exports are not growing as desired. There are ample opportunities to increase our exports globally and capture a higher share in world textile trade. Most of our exports are of value added items like fabrics and made ups which accounts for nearly 60 % in our export basket.

We need to increase export of this segment to earn more foreign exchange and generate more employment. We are the leader in production polyester and viscose which are the raw materials for these value added MMF products. This is the time to be united and work together in coordination. I am confident that the aggressive export promotion activities of the Council in new and emerging markets will give thrust to our efforts. I request you all to come forward and take responsibilities in this endeavour and then certainly we could take exports to greater

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PRODUCT FOCUS TECWIN SERIES SOFT FLOW DYEING MACHINE FROM FONG’S- A BOON TO KNIT DYERS Fongs has introduced the latest model soft flow dyeing machine TECWIN for knitted fabrics. TECWIN combines some of the well-received design features of the latest model with a few novel elements designed to deliver superior performance and reliability

An additional pump is being used exclusively for spraying the liquor through the bottom nozzle in the front which ensures a better exchange of dye liquor during operation as well as enhances the washing efficiency while washing the goods

At a time when the knit dyeing industry is struggling with high MLR machines with high water and energy consumption, TECWIN ushers in path breaking innovation that would once and for all eliminate the challenges faced by the dyers.

Equipped with the adjustable loading chamber with optimized chamber design to resolve the separation difficulties occurred when running double rope fabrics. The variable chamber gives comfort to adjust the size of the chamber based on the load of the fabric to have a smooth fabric flow without any entanglement.

Within a short span of time, TECWIN has steadily increased its foot print all over the world. In India as well, TECWIN machines have been successfully installed in Sacchi polyesters, Marvel Processors, Ludhina and in SPA Fabrics, Kolkata and a few more machines soon will soon e installed in Tirupur and Kolkata market.

TECWIN - Schematic

An effective lint cleaning systems helps to remove the lint and other residues from the surface of the fabric Tecwin can be offered with various capacities from 1 to 8 tubes to meet out the requirements of the end users Unlike earlier version, the fabric is not submerged in to the liquor at the bottom of the vessel in the new Tecwin model by having a perforated Teflon sheet; it ensures no entanglement while processing body size fabrics Usage of high quality 316Ti/1.4571 stainless steel approved by international standards as the major material of construction for the TECWIN series enhances the machine metallurgy, hence leading to a longer machine life FC30EX is equipped with a 6.5-inch, 640x480-pixel, and TFT colour LCD display. Together with novel control functions, it is the most cost-effective control. FC30EX can also integrate with the central processing unit Viewtex and THEN-TDS central computer system, providing a comprehensive machine control management.

Technical Data • Design temperature 140°C • Design pressure 3.0 bar

With impressive features, TECWIN is indeed a boon for the knit dyers and it is all set to expand its footprint in India.

• Heating gradient 25°C ~ 100°C approx. 5°C/min,100°C ~ 130°C approx. 2.5°C/min (Dry saturated steam pressure at 7.0 bar) • Cooling gradient 130°C ~ 100°C approx. 3°C/min, 100°C ~ 80°C approx. 2°C/min (Cooling water at 3.0 bar, 25°C)

TECWIN – Salient features Material to liquor ratio is 1: 4.5 The new version of TECWIN has addition spray nozzle in the front which improves the degree of dye liquor exchange before the fabric enters in to the main nozzle. It ensures uniform dyeing results.

The main dye liquor exchange nozzle setting is adjusted automatically by means of a motor drive system, which ensures a smooth flow of fabric and the dye liquor

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NEWS

MESSE FRANKFURT INDIA AND MEX EXHIBITIONS ENTER INTO A STRATEGIC ALLIANCE To create an integrated business platform for textile sector With portfolio expansion and future development of the industry in sight, the organisers of Texprocess India and Gartex India have entered into a strategic alliance to form a unified industry platform ‘Gartex Texprocess India’. The event will be part of Messe Frankfurt’s Texpertise Network leveraging on the group’s strong global network and expertise in the sector.

Leading in both apparel consumption and exports, India holds the second largest textile manufacturing capacity globally with the textile machinery sector witnessing a growth of 8-10 percent year on year. As the world’s second largest exporter of textiles and clothing projected to reach USD 300 billion by 2024, Indian apparel manufacturers are moving towards increasing their manufacturing capacities and upgrading technology, giving rise to automation garmenting processes to enter the Indian market. Having made its debut in 2016, both Texprocess India and Gartex India received tremendous response from the industry with leading associations and companies in the garment and textile machinery sector coming forward to support the shows.

At the internationally renowned Texprocess, exhibitors from around the world converge to present the latest machines, plants, processes and services for the manufacture of garments and textile and flexible materials. While Texprocess India was launched as a pavilion to create an innovation platform for garment-manufacturing and textile processing at Techtextil India tradeshow in Mumbai, Gartex India exhibition was held annually in New Delhi and has grown wider in scope covering not just garment and textile manufacturing value chain but has also added segments like innerwear manufacturing zone, Laundry & Denim show along the way in addition to digital textile printing, embroidery and other existing verticals. With the merger of the two strong textile trade fair brands, the organisers, Messe Frankfurt Trade Fairs India Pvt Ltd and MEX Exhibitions, aspire to work in collaboration for India’s textile industry development, facilitating global sourcing and networking in the textile value chains.

tial and soar to even greater heights.”

While the show will continue to maintain a strong focus on garment and textile manufacturing solutions, embroidery machines, digital textile printing sector, sewing machines, laundry solutions, innerwear manufacturing, denim show, fabrics, accessories among others, the organisers aims to expand its exhibit segments to cover complete textile process chain in the coming editions.

This includes technologies involved from design, cutting, sewing, knitting and embroidery to finishing, refining, IT and logistics which will supplement its textile technologies portfolio through the association with Texprocess.

Talking about the alliance, Raj Manek, Executive Director and Board Member of Messe Frankfurt Asia Holding Ltd said: “Our shared commitment for industry development has led to the decision of working in collaboration with MEX Exhibitions. Together, we are positioned to grow and more importantly provide industry stakeholders with a strong brand of enhanced offerings through a singlesource business platform - ‘Gartex Texprocess India’.

Moreover, the alliance has set pace for our brand expansion strategy as India is one the most promising textile markets.”

With a unique portfolio of 50 international fairs for the textile sector, Messe Frankfurt is the world’s market leader when it comes to trade fairs for the textile sector. Gartex Texprocess India will now be part of Messe Frankfurt’s Texpertise Network which is a combination of the world’s most important textile trade fair worldwide that highlight innovations and show what is driving the global textile industry. The unified Gartex Texprocess India edition will be held from 10 – 12 August 2019 at Pragati Maidan, New Delhi in India.

Gaurav Juneja, Director of MEX Exhibitions Pvt Ltd said: “Gartex India has grown multifold in size since its debut in 2016, making the event wider in scope and greater in significance year after year. It has created new standards for the industry in terms of enhancing awareness, excellent networking, knowledge dissemination and industry bonding. Now, it is time to take it to the next level and this Strategic Alliance with Texprocess of Messe Frankfurt Trade Fairs India, Gartex India will realise its true poten-

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PATENT-PENDING IDOWN™ TECHNOLOGY obtaining 3rd party test data for best-in-class performances and breakthrough environmental contributions.

HEAT-MX WORLDWIDE today announces that it obtained from an internationally renowned laboratory, IDFL, the test data on its patent-pending iDown™ Technology, which provides the technical insights of the highest level of performance which had never been seen in the industry before. The data also shows significant environmental benefits by the Technology.

According to the IDFL reports, articles such as garments, home fashion products, sleeping bags, etc., made with the iDown™ Technology exhibit the benefits described below: 1. Highest rating of LEVEL 5 in down proof performance after 50 washes* – The level of performance registered for the first time in the industry 2. Highest rating of LEVEL 5 in down proof performance after 100 washes* in counting large down feather clusters – The level of performance registered for the first time in the industry 3. Significant improvement of volume (puffiness) by a factor of more than 50% with a given quantity of down / feather material 4. Significant improvement in warmth by a factor of more than 40% In addition, iDown™ Technology provides the environmental and health benefits described below: A. Significant savings of electricity, thanks to its quickdrying properties B. No need for the use of dry-cleaning chemicals, thanks to its perfect home wash capability C. No need for the use of waterproof chemicals, thanks to its inherent down-proof property “I am pleased to have the superior performance benefits and its environmental contributions of iDown™ verified by the independent and internationally renowned IDFL. I understand that a large percentage of consumer goods containing down material as filler register much lower levels such as LEVEL 2 or 3 or even 1 after only 3 washes.

Considering that our iDown™ obtained LEVEL 5 even after 100 washes, it is truly a breakthrough performance we have been able to accomplish. In addition to the foregoing benefits, there are so many other breakthrough performance features which will benefit everyone in the value chain, including consumers, brands, manufacturers, etc.

I am confident to say that iDown™ will change the industry”, said Sae Chang, President of HEAT-MX WORLDWIDE, inventor and owner of the iDown™ Technology.

ABOUT HEAT-MX™ HEAT-MX™ is a brand of innovative thermal insulation material offering a wide range of products based on the performance and application needs of such winter garments as gloves, footwear, hats, sleeping bags, and home furnishing textiles (blankets, pillows, etc.). In addition to the industry leading thermal performances, various product grades in different product categories offer other exceptional performance features such as windproof, water resistance, water-vapor-transmission-rate, odour control, etc. We at HEAT-MX™ care about the environment and offer many innovative sustainable product options.

ABOUT iDown™ iDown™ is a patent-pending technology which provides many performance benefits for a wide range of products using down feather material, e.g., apparel, sleeping bags, home furnishing textiles (blankets, pillows, etc.), etc.

These significant performance advantages of the iDown™ Technology are created incorporating natural phenomenon into innovative manufacturing technologies without harmful chemical treatment and offers permanent performance features. In addition to the performance benefits, the Technology can also help significantly reduce manufacturing costs. As HEAT-MX WORLDWIDE is committed with social responsibilities and sustainability, we offer innovative RECYCLABLE product options under the iDown™ Technology platform. Ask Sae Chang for the Technology Overview.

Mr. Amit Kailash Khator has been awarded as the “Outstanding Young Entrepreneur in the Textile Sector - Category Technical Textiles” by the Govt. of India in January 2019. The Award was presented by Honourable Vice president of India Shri. Venkaiah Naidu along with the Textile Minister Smt. Smriti Irani.

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SHOW CALENDAR

MARCH 2019 1-4 KNIT TECH 2019

Tirupur/ India www.hitechtradefairs.com

15-17

2 TAI National Textile Summit 2019

Indore/ MP taimpunit@gmail.com

18-20 GENTEX LANKA 2019

Colombo/ Sri Lanka www.gentexfair.com

8-9 F&A 2019

Bangalore/ India http://www.fnashow.in/

AUGUST 2019

12-14 Yarn Expo 2019 Shanghai/China https://yarn-expo-spring.hk.messefrankfurt.com/ shanghai/en.html 26-28 Textile Asia

Karachi / Pakistan www.textileasia.com.pk 28-31 Morocco International Machinery Fair 2019

OFEC, Casablance /Morocco www.moroccomachinery.com 27-28

India Fashion Forum

APRIL 2019 2-4 International Apparel & Textile Fair 2019

Dubai/ UAE http://www.internationalapparelandtextilefair.com/ 4-6

Fibers and Yarns Mumbai/ India www.fibersnyarns.com

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INTERTEX TUNISIA Tunisia / Africa www.bridgexpo.com/intertex-tunisia-2019

25-27 FABTEX

Mumbai/ India www.fabtexexpo.in

F&A SHOW New Delhi/ India http://www.fnashow.in/

3-5 Yarn Expo 2019 Surat/India www.yarnexpo.sgcci.in TEXFAIR 2019 9-12

Coimbatore/ India texfair@simamills.org

SEPTEMBER 2019 12-14 YARNEX

Tirupur/ India http://yarnex.in 20-22 Textile Asia

Lahor / Pakistan www.textileasia.com.pk 25-27 Vibrant Terry Towel Global Expo

Solapur / India www.vibrantterrytowel.com

OCTOBER 2019 22-24 FILTECH Cologne/Germany

www.filtech.de

NOVEMBER 2019

MAY 2019

12-14 International Sourcing Expo

Melbourne / Australia www.internationalsourcingexpo.com

16-18 YIWUTEX

Zhejiang / China www.zhejiangtextile.com

13-15 INTEX SOUTH ASIA

Colombo / Srilanka www.intexfair.com/

14-17 Techtexil

Frankfurt/ Gemany techtextil.messefrankfurt.com

16-18 TexHub

Istanbul / Turkey www.texhubistanbul.com/tr/

JUNE 2019 3-5 CINE

Shanghai/ China www.cine-shanghai.com 6-8 NON WOVEN TECH ASIA 2019

Delhi / INDIA www.nonwoventechasia.com 20-26

ITMA 2019 Barcelona, Spain www.itma.com

JULY 2019 3-6 Garment Manufacturer Sourcing Expo

Bangkok/ Thailand www.gftexpo.com/gms/

20-22 Techtexil INDIA

Mumbai / India techtextil-india.in.messefrankfurt.com 25-28 SHANGHAITEX 2019

Shanghai / China www.shanghaitex.cn

DECEMBER 2019 5-8 ITMACH INDIA

Gandhinagar / India www.itmach.com 5-8 ITES

Gandhinagar / India www.itsexhibition.com

15-17 YARNEX 2019

New Delhi/ India http://delhi.yarnex.in/

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ETHIOPIA IS SAFE FOR INDIAN INVESTORS, SAYS CONSULATE IN INDIA nial population is more than 70 % and the wage rate are competitive which extends between 40 to 100 USD per month. “We are the second largest populations in Africa, with more than 110 million while we provide the cheapest and sustainable energy supply of 0.03 USD cents KW per hour. The other advantages include abundant water supply, duty-free, quota free access to USA Japan, Canada, China, Australia and more”, he said further jotting the incentive packages of duty free import of Capital goods, income tax exemption, tax holidays and development Bank of Ethiopia loan up to 50% Land/Shed with Competitive lease price at Industrial parks.

DEMEKE ATNAFU AMBULO ,Consul General The Consulate General of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia in Mumbai

According to him, India and Ethiopia have long-standing economic and commercial relations, which are centuries old. He recalls during the Axumite Kingdom, Indian traders had links with the ancient port of Adulis in the eastern part of Ethiopia and traded silk and spices for gold and ivory. In recent years, with the opening up of the Ethiopian economy, business ties between the two countries have grown significantly, especially in the areas of trade, investment, agriculture and infrastructure projects. The economic dimension of the bilateral relationship has now become its most important.

“India is the second largest investor in Ethiopia following China in the Textile and manufacturing sector”Out of the 75 global companies in the country, there are 10 Indian companies running their manufacturing and operations.

In a recent exclusive chat with Textile Value Chain, Consul General Demeke Ambulo, Ethiopian Consulate - Mumbai, says Ethiopia is safe for Indian investors.

Speaking on the political stability there, he said, “ There is a stable social-economic governance with sustained peace and security. An average of about 11% GDP growth since 2005, one of the fastest growing economies in the world during the same period.

There is a stable and conducive macroeconomic environment that implements a structural growth and transformation plan which aims to transform Ethiopia from an agriculture-led economy to an industrial one. “ According to the Consulate, there are more than 250 Textile and garment Industry in Ethiopia, out of which 75 are Foreign Direct Investments. Calling India the second largest investor in Ethiopia after China, he said, the Indian textile business owners should think on the comparative advantage for investment in Ethiopia for textile and garment.

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Industrial parks and eco-friendly measures: Ethiopia’s textile and apparel industry has experienced major development over recent years, mainly driven by the country’s wide availability of raw materials, cheap labour, low energy costs, and several bilateral trade agreements with the world’s biggest markets. According to the Consulate General, Ethiopia has specialized industrial park, maintaining high environmental standards through the use of renewable energy and zero liquid discharge (ZLD) technology.

“We have close to 15 industrial clusters and they have state-of-the-art eco-friendly policies and the investment

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INTERVIEW Thus we are very much spotted in the global map for commerce. We had been culturally associated with India along with trade associations. With the stable government in place, our country is whole-heatedly welcoming Indian investors invest there”, he says.

Bilateral trade in 2015 stood at US$1.2 billion, of which India’s exports to Ethiopia were over US$1.15 billion and imports were US$65 million.

India is the second most important source of imports for Ethiopia, contributing 7.4% of all of Ethiopia’s imports next to China. Indian companies maintained their reputation as being in the top three foreign investors in Ethiopia with newer Indian multinationals marking their presence in Ethiopia. There are more than 600 Indian companies in Ethiopia with licensed investment of over US$ 5 billion of which more than half is estimated to be on the ground.

climate is favourable for Indian companies. Needless to say, the connectivity has also improved and there are Indian businessmen who make a one-day trip to our country for business meetings, thanks to the daily flight options from India”, he said.

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The consulate also assures investors a safe and secure climate for their business in Ehiopia. “We have many global organizations having their Headquarters in our country.

On a concluding note,on the ITME AFRICA 2020 in Addis Ababa , Ethiopia, he said his country is keen to realize the potential of Africa and Ethiopia as destination for textile manufacturing. We will be focussing on catalyse growth of textile industry in Ethiopia. Some of the key activities planned from Ethiopia in the event are B2B meetings, joint ventures, technology transfer, sourcing of equipment, machinery and other inputs for textile manufacturing and so on.

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TAFETTA-FABRIC MADE ECOSAC SURGES 500% IN NUMBERS POST PLASTIC BAN your products Unlike cotton or Jute bags, these bags can be reused over a long period of time. We have had customers using our bags more than five years. Moreover ECOSAC bags are extremely convenient as it is folded into a size of a handkerchief that fits into any pocket or handbag making it convenient for everyone. ECOSAC bags are extremely strong and durable. Our bags are tested for tensile and only the batch that passes through this test is introduced into the market. ECOSAC bags are washable and water repellent. It is perhaps the only kind of shopping bag that ticks all the boxes. It is durable, strong, reusable, washable, water repellent and above all convenient. For corporate companies, it also serves as a walking billboard which has an extremely low eye ball cost.

ANIL CHOWTA ,Founder and CEO

ECOSAC

ECOSAC, the utility bags manufacturers claim 500% number growth post plastic ban across various states. The alternative to plastic bags comes up with various models, sized used for shopping, travel and day-to-day utilities.

Some of the key merits of the products said to be ecofriendly, economical, fashionable and trendy, highly durable, sturdy, washable (consuming very less water), reusable and can last a minimum for three years.

Anil Chowta, Founder and CEO, ECOSAC, in an exclusive chat with Textile Value Chain shares his growth stories and way ahead. Edited excerpts.

How has the marked opened for alternative bags for plastic especially after the plastic ban from various state government bodies?

There has been a tremendous increase in enquiries, conversions and sales subsequent to the announcement of plastic-ban. Initially we had a tough time meeting the delivery demands of the customers, now things have stabilized. India is a large country and today almost 18 states have banned the use of single time use Plastic bags.

How many units you manufacture in a month and what is the percentage of raise after plastic ban?

We have seen more than 500% growth in our numbers both in terms of quantity and value.

What are the key USP of your products and how are you planning to market it in India?

Reusable, convenient, strong and durable, washable, water repellant, fashionable are the key USP. Indian market is very vast. For the first year our endeavour has been to target the West and South of India through developing a robust distribution network to cater to the general trade. Thereafter spread to North and East of India.

Modern retailers, e-com, corporates, institutional and customized bags are being serviced directly by the company.

What are the plans for ECOSAC in the next financial year?

Explain the way your bags are made ?

Ecosac bags are made from Tafetta fabric which is an extremely durable and strong material. Once we receive the material it is cut according to the sizes of our bags, thereafter it is printed and finally stitched into bags. Of every batch 10% of all bags stitched in random are put through a tensile testing machine and after the bags pass through this test all bags are moved to the ironing department, where individual bags are ironed and folded into a size of a handkerchief.

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DN Associates represent in India the following Textile Machinery & Accessories manufacturers N.Schlumberger, France : Spinning preparatory machines for Spun and filament LONG fibres (Website:www.nsc-schlumberger.com) ANDRITZ Asselin Thibeau, France : Complete Nonwoven Lines : DrylaidNeedlepunched, Hydroentangled and others, Wetlaid, Spunlaid and special machines for chemical/hydro finishing (Website:www.andritz.com/nonwoven) Laroche SA, France: Opening and Blending Lines, Textile waste recycling Lines and “Airlay” Nonwoven Lines (Website: www.laroche.fr) 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) Schott & Meissner, Germany : Ovens, Dryers, Heat Recovery Systems, Heating/cooling calenders, Wet/Dry cooling systems, Cutters, accumulators, Winders, Palletisers and Bonding systems (Website: www.schott-meissner.de) Mariplast Spa, Italy : All type of Yarn Carriers for spun and filament yarns including dye tubes for filament/long fibre yarns (Website: www.mariplast.com) MORCHEM S.A.U., Spain : PUR Hotmelt Adhesives for Technical Textiles, Solvent Based, Water Based adhesives, cleaners and primers https://www.morchem.com/markets-and-solutions/textile-lamination/ Valvan Baling Systems, Belgium : Baling and Bump forming machines for spun fibres and textiles waste recycling lines (Website:www.valvan.com) C + L Textilmaschinen GmbH, Germany : Reeling (Yarn Hank Forming) Machines, steaming, Bulking and Banding Machines for yarns (for Western and Southern India) (Website:www.croon-lucke.com) Schmauser Precision GmbH, Germany : Pin Strips, Faller Bars, Disposable Faller Bars for Intersecting Gills and Chain Gills. Top Combs for Combing Machines in long fibre Spinning Preparatory Lines (website: www.schmauser.com) Groz-Beckert Carding Belgium NV, Belgium : Clothing for Cards and Cylinders used in processing of long fibres, nonwovens and waste recycling (website:www.groz-beckert.com) 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) Contact : DN Associates E-mail : info@dnassociates.co.in Website: www.dnassociates.co.in H.O.: 406, “Kaveri” Jagannath Mandir Marg, Opp. Holiday Inn, Near Sakinaka Metro Station, Mumbai–400 072 Contact Person : Mr. Hemant Dantkale Mobile : 98201 06018 Phone No.: 022-28516018 E-mail : hdantkale@dnassociates.co.in Regd.Office: B-310, Universal Meadows, Plot No. 27, New Sneh Nagar, Wardha Road, Nagpur – 440 015 Contact Person : Mr. Yogesh Nawandar Mobile : 98901 53766 Phone No. :0712-2289662 E-mail : ynawandar@dnassociates.co.in 49 www.textilevaluechain.com June 2018Office at Branch Coimbatore March 2018

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