Taiwanese textile industry seek to increase tie-ups with Indian cos

Taiwan, one of the world’s leading textile exporters, is looking forward to enhance its business association with textile firms in India.

In view of the same, 13 leading textile firms from Taiwan exhibited their most modern textile products at a two-day Taiwan Textile Fair organized in Mumbai by the Taiwan Textile Federation in association with the Bureau of Foreign Trade, Taiwan and supported by major textile associations of India like the Confederation of Indian Textile Industry (CITI) and Apparel Export Promotion Council (AEPC).

Jennifer Liu, Project Manager, Taiwan Textile Federation, said the fair was intended to help the Taiwanese entrepreneurs to tap the real time opportunities in the Indian apparel sector as they explore new business opportunities for the textile and garment industry.

While the Indian apparel market is growing at an annual rate of 10 percent, rural and semi-urban markets of the country are advancing at a faster pace than anticipated. Also, an increasing number of urban customers are looking for branded and lifestyle goods. So, the market is sure to advance at a higher pace than ever before.

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Ruddick Completes Sale of A&E Biz To KPS Capital

Ruddick Corporation announced that it has completed the previously announced sale to two newly formed affiliates of KPS Capital Partners, LP of all of the Company's ownership interest in its American & Efird business, for $180 million in cash consideration, subject to adjustments for working capital and certain liabilities, including under funded pension liability and foreign debt as previously disclosed.

Ruddick Corporation is the parent company of Harris Teeter, Inc., a leading regional supermarket chain with operations in eight states primarily in the southeastern and mid-Atlantic United States, and the District of Columbia.

Aerican & Efird (A&E) is one of the world's largest global manufacturers and distributors of industrial sewing thread, embroidery thread and technical textiles, produced from natural and synthetic fibers.

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Centre Gives Nod For Gulbarga Textiles Park

The Karnataka government’s proposal for setting up a textiles park at Gulbarga has been given a nod by the Central Government, the State Textiles Minister, Mr. R Varthur Prakash has revealed.

The Minister stated that the Centre would provide Rs. 400 million by way of assistance for setting up the park. He informed that the State has also urged the Centre to set up such parks in Bellary, Kolar, Belgaum, Tumkur, Chikkaballapura and Chitradurga.

Mr. Prakash said the State has met with good response at the Technotex 2011, an international seminar on technical textiles held in Mumbai, where Karnataka was a partner State.

He added that the State is likely to attract investments worth around five billion rupees. He further said that the State would provide a power subsidy of one rupee per unit to the industries setting up their units in textile parks of the State.

Presently, the State houses around 2,500 garment units in its textile parks, in addition to around 55,000 handlooms and 1.007 million powerlooms.

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TechnicalTextile.Net receives tremendous response at Techtextil India

TechnicalTextile.Net, the first ever Global Portal with detailed information for over 200 products in the technical textiles and nonwovens sector participated in the recently concluded Techtextil India held in Mumbai. The company received tremendous response from domestic and international visitors and attracted around 1,200 visitors during the three-day event.


Most of the visitors were from textile companies who were looking to diversify their business and enter into the nascent but lucrative segment of technical textiles. Project and Market Reports on Spunbond Nonwovens and Baby Diapers offered by the company were the key attraction for the visitors. Among visitors, upcoming entrepreneurs from Surat and Icchalkaranji textile hubs too visited the stall to gain knowledge about the technical textiles products.


The booth was visited by representatives of Major Indian and Global companies like, Siyarams, Arvind, Century Rayon, Indorama Ventures, SRF, Clariant, Huntsman, Garware, Dow Chemicals, Teijin, Staubli, and others.


Among senior Industry stalwarts, Mr Dilip Jiwrajka, MD of the Rs 64 billion plus Alok Industries took keen interest and discussed the future and prospects about the industry with Dr. PR Roy, our Director.

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Technicaltextile.net made diaper project report for Indian market

With increase in GDP and purchasing power, the Indian market for diapers is expected to increase significantly.

According to a renowned diaper consultant, the world consumption of baby diapers will be approximately 15,000/sec by 2025. Since, India is the second largest country in terms of population, the potential for consumption of diapers in India is huge.

In order that Indian entrepreneurs may capitalize on this very lucrative market prospect, technicaltextile.net – a portal exclusively for the burgeoning technical textiles sector, has unveiled a project report on diaper manufacturing exclusively for the Indian market.

The world market of baby diaper is expected to touch US $27 billion by 2012. The current demand for baby diapers in India is approximately 100 million pieces / annum and is growing at a brisk 8-10% every year.

The project report on diapers manufacturing in India includes detailed costing & profitability analysis for new ventures in India for next 10 years.

The report begins with an analysis of worldwide demand for baby diapers; diaper & nonwovens demand in India; world top 10 diaper consuming markets; worldwide baby diaper machinery manufacturers list and comparison amongst European and Chinese diaper manufacturing technologies.

The project report also covers, land, building & construction cost, power costs, labour costs, and utility costs. It also provides an organizational chart; pre-operative expenses, total project and raw material costing and profitability statement for 10 years.

Technicaltextile.net has also included a comparison of project cost & profitability for different technologies (European and Chinese) and price comparison among three major Indian diaper brands to determine the competitive selling price of the diaper in the report.

All the data will be provided in a programmed excel sheet. One just needs to input variable prices to get the final profitability calculations.

In short, the diaper project report from technicaltextile.net is a one-stop solution for those Indian entrepreneurs wishing to encash the lucrative proposition of setting up a diaper manufacturing facility, without the hassles of appointing a project consultant and collecting relevant data from various sources.

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