A Focus Incubation Center has opened at Northern India Textile Research Association (NITRA), Uttar Pradesh. This is a move to promote innovation and startups in the textile arena by providing the right facilities and support to budding entrepreneurs of the industry. The Focus Incubation Center will provide the necessary facilities and technical guidance to encourage technical textile entrepreneurs for testing new ideas and technologies and thereby leap forward to more innovations in the products that they make.

NITRA is India’s premier textile research association. Its long research and development experience covers almost every aspect of the textile and apparel industry. NITRA has been designated as a center of excellence for protective textiles and automotive textiles which will provide the infrastructure for developing the expertise and technical capability for quality evaluation, product development and knowledge dissemination in the field of protective textiles.

Innovation is the key to success, sustenance, and growth in today’s highly competitive customer driven market place. R&D, in particular, helps entrepreneurs in optimizing the cost of production, improving quality, and leading production to new innovative and value added items so that the individual company and the industry, as a whole, can sustain fierce competition in the market.