TheTextile Industry, mother of Indian industrialization and the second largestemployment generator (about 4.5 Cr people, after Agriculture sector), accountsfor about 20 % industrial production. By 2010 this Industry is expected to growfrom INR 150,000 cr. to INR 320,000 cr. This is one of the key drivers for oureconomy and any change/development in this sector would highly impact manyallied industries and affect socio-economy of the country.


Of latethis industry is witnessing a paradigm shift in the concepts, applications and processing technologies. The influencing factors are considered to be the cost pressures, high quality demands, environment regulations, fashion trends & supply chainlogistics. This has brought awareness in terms of need for technology upgradation, machinery modernization, innovative application techniques, costoptimised processing and increasing production capacities for achievingeconomies of scale.

One ofthe ways to reduce the impact of water consumption, effluent treatment cost,energy requirement and productivity is by shifting from batch wise processing to the highly productive semi-continuous and continuous application method.




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About the Authors:

The authors are associated with Atul Ltd (ColorsDivision), Gujarat.