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Tirupur wants to triple business in three years

The Tirupur textile cluster hopes to reach a business of Rs one lakh crore in three years. India’s largest knitwear cluster did business worth Rs 36,000 crores in last fiscal. It has a 2.25 crore spindle capacity. Limping back on a slow-but-promising western order recovery and robust domestic consumption, Tirupur is pursuing another growth cycle. The cluster sees protective wear, sports garments and defense-related businesses as obvious lines, given its huge spinning capacities.

Entrepreneurs want to wean themselves away from the fickle western apparel market to focus more on avenues of sustainable business like technical textiles or medical textiles and specialised products such as car upholstery. The first step is seen as enhancing labor skills and raising the quality of delivery. The industry has been through highs and lows and prolonged slackness in export orders, besides troubles closer home with hundreds of dyeing units found to have improper effluent treatment mechanisms forced to shut down.

The cluster recently benefitted from a Rs 6000-crores textile package, manufacturing parks, and private water supply for entrepreneurs. Now entrepreneurs feel they deserve to have a knitwear board, on the lines of the one for jute in Kolkata, so that policies are framed to favor them. They also want sponsors to conduct training programs.

 
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