Topics covered at MMF textiles conference impress delegates
25 Nov '11
12 min read
He concluded by saying, “Calculating at an average annual growth rate of 3.1 percent, global fibre consumption will touch 120 million tons in 2020 and almost 150 million tons in 2030 from 80.8 million tons in 2010. The drivers for growth will be industrial applications, home textiles and floorings with polyester fibre dominating consumption”.
Mr Ajay Sardana – Asst VP (Global Customers & Market Intelligence) at Grasim noted, “Viscose Staple Fibre (VSF) though a relatively small part of the global textile fibre mix has shown maximum growth in recent years and has globally grown at a CAGR of around 10% between 2005 and 2010 and shows clear advantages to replace cotton, especially in clothing segment”.
Next was a presentation on 'Opportunities for Man Made Fibre Textiles in Mangalore SEZ'. The SEZ has access to raw materials and feedstock like PET, PTA, PP, Benzene, Propylene at the doorstep as well has close proximity to a uncongested port.
The next speaker Mr R D Gupta of Indorama Industries Limited informed the delegates that Indorama was setting up the first Indian spandex filament plant using dry-spun CP technology with equipment from Italy, PR China and Japan, with a capacity of 5,000 tons per year to be set up in three phases, with commercial production scheduled to commence by March 2012.
Mr Kishore Shewale from A.T.E Enterprises who spoke on 'Warp Knitting Technology for Innovative Textile Applications' informed, “2010 can rightly be called the 'Year of Warp Knitting' as demand for warp knitting machines continued to grow from the beginning of 2010, due to huge consumption of warp knitted fabrics in domestic market”.
The next presenter – Mr Rajkumar Lakshman of Nantex Machineries Pvt Ltd has turned the embroidery machine upside down, literally. He has designed a vertical computerized embroidery machine, which can embroider lengthwise on a fabric instead of the generations old technology of doing it widthwise. “This technology will ease the task of fashion designers immensely”, Mr Rajkumar said.
The day concluded with an icing on the cake for the delegates. For the first time-ever, delegates were able to gain first-hand knowledge of the novel concept of "Forcespinning for Nanofibres" through live video conferencing from the US. Forcespinning – a unique nanofibre technology combines novel equipment and processes to enable more versatile and cost-effective methods for making polymeric nanofibers and metallic nanowires.
The other highlight of the conference was the session on the growing technical textiles sector on day-2, which had luminaries showcasing presentations, discussing and deliberating growth and the challenges of the sector.
The day began with a presentation from a doyen and one of the first Indian entrepreneurs to foray in to the technical textiles sector – Mr Mohan Kavrie, Promoter of Supreme Nonwovens Group.
He explained the different nonwovens technologies like Needle-Punched, Stitch-Bonded, Chemical Bonded, Resin Bonded, Thermal Calendared & Hot-Air Bonded, Spun-lacing/Hydro-entanglement for manufacturing nonwovens.
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