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Some textile companies are making a comeback in the home category with premium products to build better margins. No doubt, it is the grand era of the upmarket in home textiles, finds the ITJ Cover Story

Raga Tex, was launched in 1996 as a proprietorship concern by a young lady entrepreneur Thiurmagal, ably assisted by her doctor husband Dr Bharathi Muthurathinam. “It appears that many big retailers abroad, either have already done, are planning to open shop, in India. We should therefore have plans to start investing in brand building and product promotion, within India”, says G Shekar, Executive Director, Raga Tex India Private Limited, in an interview with ITJ Senior Editor Karthik Muthuveeran.

The technical seminar, organised by Oerlikon Group in Daman, underscored the wider scope of manmade fibres in India. ´China will for the first time slowly change from planning industry principle to market-driven principle. Secondly, focus of China´s textile industry is more on domestic market development.

In November 1984, he decided to found Tecnorama to produce machinery for textile industry, thanks to his experience gained first as dye-house director of some important woolen mill of Prato (Banci Walter, Luigi Pacini), then as sales agent of dyestuffs and auxiliaries of a well known Italian-German group (AIC/Hoechst) and, finally, as dye technician in its proper dye plant (Selenerama).

A.T.E. has been representing Corino Macchine S.p.A., Italy, for their range of processing machinery over most of India for the last five years. Strengthening the partnership between A.T.E. and Corino further, the representation is now extended to cover South India as well, thus covering all of India. A.T.E. will also be taking care of after-sales service for Corino-including erection.