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'Spinning new strategy on technical textiles a must' – Dr Ramkumar
09 Jul '09
10 min read
“For example, India is in need of high tenacity polyester fibers, high performance antiballistic fibers such as para aramids and high tenacity polyelhylene, etc. Hopefully, the proposed National Fibre Policy, which India's Honourable Union Minister of Textiles, Mr. Dayanidhi Maran hopes to implement by the end of 2009 may help with the raw material requirements for the emerging technical textiles sector in India.
“In order for India to have double digit growth, attributes such as job creation, inclusive economic growth, infrastructure development and health care improvement are minimum requirements. Interestingly, technical textiles will play important role in all these aforementioned areas and the textile materials which are going to help with the growth of India will be technical textiles. In my forecast, the per capita consumption of technical textiles in India will grow from the current meager amount of 100 to 200 grams to 1.5 kilograms.
“At this point of time, the middle class population will explode and will reach a target of half a billion. If the target of 8% growth in the Indian textile sector has to be achieved, there needs to be a greater contribution from the technical textiles sector. Therefore, “Spinning a new textile strategy” for the Indian textiles industry is a must.
“This focused workshop on technical textiles for the first time will infuse both technical and marketing know how on technical textiles. There will be presentations from consultants and leading companies in nonwovens and technical textiles who are successful in India. More importantly, latest world and Indian market reports on both disposable and durable technical textiles (nonwoven and industrial fabrics) will be presented from world's leading trade bodies such as Association of the Nonwoven Fabrics Industry, Cary, USA and Industrial Fabrics Association, International, Roseville, USA.
“I urge the Government of India and all the stakeholders in the industry, particularly the conventional textiles sector to make efforts within a year to create more marketing and technical awareness on the processes and products so, this way, by the time the global economic situation shifts into high gear by mid 2010, the Indian technical textiles sector will start crawling”, he concluded by saying.
“In order for India to have double digit growth, attributes such as job creation, inclusive economic growth, infrastructure development and health care improvement are minimum requirements. Interestingly, technical textiles will play important role in all these aforementioned areas and the textile materials which are going to help with the growth of India will be technical textiles. In my forecast, the per capita consumption of technical textiles in India will grow from the current meager amount of 100 to 200 grams to 1.5 kilograms.
“At this point of time, the middle class population will explode and will reach a target of half a billion. If the target of 8% growth in the Indian textile sector has to be achieved, there needs to be a greater contribution from the technical textiles sector. Therefore, “Spinning a new textile strategy” for the Indian textiles industry is a must.
“This focused workshop on technical textiles for the first time will infuse both technical and marketing know how on technical textiles. There will be presentations from consultants and leading companies in nonwovens and technical textiles who are successful in India. More importantly, latest world and Indian market reports on both disposable and durable technical textiles (nonwoven and industrial fabrics) will be presented from world's leading trade bodies such as Association of the Nonwoven Fabrics Industry, Cary, USA and Industrial Fabrics Association, International, Roseville, USA.
“I urge the Government of India and all the stakeholders in the industry, particularly the conventional textiles sector to make efforts within a year to create more marketing and technical awareness on the processes and products so, this way, by the time the global economic situation shifts into high gear by mid 2010, the Indian technical textiles sector will start crawling”, he concluded by saying.
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