MAG Solvics was established in 1991 with an insight to design and develop testing instruments for textile industry. Over the years, the company has grown its product portfolio and aligned its offering to the changing industry requirements and technology advancements. C Dhandayuthapani, Managing Director, MAG Solvics, in this interview with Divya Shetty, shares overview of the textile testing industry and how is his company shaping the future trends.
MAG Solvics develops testing instruments for various sectors within the textile industry. Can you elaborate on the specific textile sectors you primarily focus on, and what unique testing needs you have identified in each?
Across textile industry in all sectors, we provide testing solutions and also spindle monitoring system for Ring frame. In particular, we are focusing both spinning and wet processing sectors.
For example in spinning we are already having instruments from raw material to Spinning Department and we are focusing at Winding Department and Packing Department also.
Based on the market demand, we are going to introduce 2 new products shortly in our product list. In case of Wet processing sector we have introduced redesigned Washing Fastness Testers.
Also we are planning to fulfil the testing needs for Technical Textiles to cover up its entire requirements. Though currently we have few products, but it is not sufficient to meet the demands
How have the government’s quality control orders affected MAG SOLVICS? Have these regulations led to improvements in your product offerings, or have they presented challenges that you needed to overcome?
Yes, it has the impact.
In spinning and weaving sector, our instruments will satisfy the standards mentioned in QCO. In fact, we supplied instruments to few customers for meeting the same.
In other sectors, we may have to alter our instruments to fulfil the QCO but it will not be a big challenge one.
If the quality control orders have impacted your company, would you say these effects have been predominantly positive or negative? Can you share any specific examples or metrics that illustrate this impact?
Definitely, the effects are positive.
Cotton quality control order, the key parameters like length, strength and fineness are required to monitor in ginning sector. To fulfil the same, we have comprehensive Cotton Testing Instrument which has been demanded from government. Recently, there was requirements from BIS which was verified and approved by the team. We foresee such orders from other stockholders also.
In your view, how is the current state of the Indian textile industry influencing the demand for testing instruments? What trends do you see emerging in this sector?
The demand is there for quite some time. Priority will go for finalising production machines, then for Testing Instruments. Delivery is one of the reasons for that.
But now the trend is getting changed. At current state, need of testing instrument is being considered in advance by the customers. We hope the Industry will bounce back and we too get sizeable orders for testing instruments. Also, if QCO is enforced across industry, it will positively will influence the demand for testing instruments.
What do you envision for the future of the Indian textile testing industry? How do you see MAG SOLVICS adapting to or shaping these future trends?
As like in other industry, in Textile industry also move towards IoT. We have already incorporated the means to transfer the tested / observed results from our instruments to the customers ERP system through which customer can view the results through their system as they wish. In all our future designing products we are planning to incorporate Wifi enabled data transfer facility to meet IoT standard.
What innovative solutions are you currently working on to address the evolving needs of the textile industry? How do you plan to stay ahead of the competition in this space?
IoT enabled products, user friendly, CE compatible, RoHs compatible & sustainable products are in principle considered while designing the new product. Also Textile industry need reliable / less man power intensive solutions to their operations for which MAG is already equipped.
MAG supports customers by supplying its monitoring system devices to capture the real time data in Spinning and to increase the productivity. Some more products in this line to enhance the productivity of Textile Industry will be rolled out from MAG in coming days.