Home to a large number of textile units, Coimbatore has emerged as a manufacturing hub of Tamil Nadu. Here, Rakesh Rao explains the evolution of Coimbatore’s…
Browsing: Manchester of South India
In this interview with Rakesh Rao, Dr K Selvaraju, Secretary General of SIMA, talks about Coimbatore’s enduring importance, SIMA’s pioneering role in industry reforms and evolving…
Coimbatore district, known as the textile hub of Tamil Nadu or is called as the ´Manchester of South India´, has over 900 textile mills, 7 million spindles, 1 lakh rotors, 2 lakh powerlooms, 99,000 automatic shuttle looms, 59,000 plain looms, 39,000 semi-automatic looms, and over 70 per cent of machinery, spares & accessories, rotors, etc.