Development council for technical textiles mooted

22 Apr '08

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He appealed to textile entrepreneurs to take advantage of these centers for the necessary support for setting up technical textile units.

Responding to the observations by Dr. Amit Mitra, Secretary General, FICCI, the Minister said, "the Technology Mission, announced by the Prime Minister in September 2007, will provide support for the development of the technical textile industry in terms of capacity building of the manufacturers; standardization, product development, common testing faculties; domestic and export market development; and skill development."

Mr. Vaghela said in order to strengthen the database of the technical textile industry, the government has asked ICRA Management Consultancy Services to conduct a baseline survey. The report of ICRA would be ready in September this year.

It would shed light on the potential market size of the industry and also suggest an Action Plan for removing the hurdles in the growth of the technical textile industry.

Mr. A K Singh, Secretary, Textiles, pointed out that unlike conventional textiles, which have become very competitive with most of the textile units on expansion mode, the competitive level of the technical textile industry was very low.

Thus, there was enough scope for high profit margins. He said for some technical textile products, there was no indigenous input and the entire demand was met through imports and manufacturing capacity of some other products was also limited in the country.

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