Domestic consumption of technical textiles to be increased

12 Aug '09

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While stressing for an urgent need to exploit this potential, and Thiru Maran said that my Ministry has set up four Centres of Excellence (CoE) for Agrotech at Mumbai; Geotech at Ahmedabad; Meditech at Coimbatore; and Protech at Ghaziabad; provided coverage of technical textiles under Technology Upgradation Fund Scheme (TUFS); dereserved sanitary napkins/body diapers from the ambit of small scale sector and extended fiscal support. Thiru Maran also announced that National Textiles Corporation will conduct feasibility studies in Technical Textiles for starting its unit in Coimbatore.

Thiru Maran also emphasized the urgent need to create indigenous manufacturing facilities and increase domestic consumption of technical textiles and this will largely depend on the institutional users in infrastructure, healthcare, transportation, construction, irrigation, defence, etc. We are aware of the bottlenecks like lack of demand, skilled manpower, competitiveness, testing infrastructure and testing support, affecting the growth of market of technical textiles, said Thiru Maran.

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