The demand of organic textiles in India is much less and has not yet reached the peak for Indian entrepreneurs to jump into organic manufacturing, says Avinash Mayekar.

KARL MAYER is expanding its service operations in Vietnam, Bangladesh and India. Asia is, and will continue to be, a lucrative market for the global textile machinery building sector – a market that should be nurtured carefully.

India is still miles away from tapping the full potential of organic cotton despite a major global share of 56 per cent and a promise of 20 per cent higher return for farmers from this white gold. An ITJ Exclusive portrays the problems and prospects.

Marc Jarrault, Managing Director, Lapp Group India, in an email interview conveyed to Samuel Joseph Editor of ITJ his views and vision of the company with regard to the products and services rendered to the textile industry in India.

Established in 1985, Sudarshan Gears has German trained degree qualified engineers for design, development and import substitute. It is an ISO 9001-2000-certified company. The company has latest fully-designed machining assembly and testing facility. The company is a certified ISO 9001-2008 MSME, Udyog Adhar, NSIC Regd. Co.

The National Skill Development Council (NSDC) has trained 1,000 workers from across various mills in Tamil Nadu. The workers who completed training in last two months received certificates at a job mela oganised by the Indian Texpreneurs Federation (ITF).

A Focussed Incubation Centre for Composites (FICC) was recently inaugurated at Ahmedabad Textile Industry’s Research Association (ATIRA). The centre is partly sponsored by the Union ministry of textiles to promote technical textiles.