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Seeing the low penetration and high growth potential, Taiwanese companies are eagerly looking at the Indian market for technical textile products. Rising labour costs in China too is forcing some of these companies to consider manufacturing in India.

The Ministry of Textiles and the Man-Made Textile Research Association (MANTRA) have joined hands to encourage the small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in south Gujarat.

The technical textile industry in India is seriously getting down to business; first, the membership of the Indian Technical Textile Association (ITTA) has gone up by 48 to over 240, and there are signs of more coming in in the days to come.

A technical textile workshop was organised by MANTRA at Surat, Gujarat by BS Pancholi and Dr SK Basu. It has been MANTRA´s continuous endeavour to help SME/MSME members in their efforts to add value to their products and reap the benefits of the new innovative products

Steel filament conductive yarns show good electrical conductivity, with a possibility of various applications ranging from apparels, handicrafts to sub-soil applications, say Unnati S Thakor, DA Vasavada and LS Thakur, who also find low cost technology

TechNavios analysts forecast the Indian technical textile market to grow at a CAGR of 21.36 percent over the period 2012-2016. One of the key factors contributing to this market growth is the existence of favourable government policies

The Indian Technical Textile Association (ITTA) is the only association of the technical textile industry in India with about 250 members. ITTA membership represents the entire technical textile value chain from raw materials to finished goods producers,