Browsing: Textile Industry

Polyester filament yarn (PFY) has always posed various problems in India due to different lobbies from the textile industry acting in their own interests. A national fibre policy could have led the industry to a solution but so far, it has been only a far cry.

SM Industries, with its head office located at Islampur, Sangli district in Maharashtra, has been involved in the manufacturing of fabrics. Today, the company has about four Chinese loom manufacturers under its fold.

The Government of India has reduced the Central Excise Duty by 2 per cent on textile machinery besides increasing the allocation under the Technology Upgradation Fund Scheme (TUFS)

Chinas challenges may be Indias gain if the industry can capitalise on low cotton prices, leading spinners told at the USTER® Quality University.

Technical textiles have emerged as an important segment for not only to textile industry but for all material sciences and medical sciences. The Indian government has launched a massive programme for the promotion of technical textiles and material engineering.

Recently, Noble Laureate Vernon L Smith (2002 co-recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences), while lecturing on the housing bubbles and recessions since 1929 to a standing room only

Computer-aided design (CAD) has brought a revolution in the textile industry, but CAD enables a methodology of study of consumer behavioural patterns and thereby defining trend directions having some limitations too, says Dhananjay Singh Tanwar.