Value Addition, Automation And Technology Has Gained Momentum In The Indian Textile Manufacturing Chain

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Value Addition, Automation And Technology Has Gained Momentum In The Indian Textile Manufacturing Chain

Textile Excellence spoke to C. Kamatchisundaram, Vice President (TMD), Voltas Ltd, who was happy to shed light on the successes of Voltas and their principals at ITMA 2015. He pointed out the conscious changes within the textile industry, which is being observed while making investment decisions.

Let's begin with the ITMA 2015 response for Voltas

ITMA 2015 has been extremely good for both Voltas and our principals. We had a very good level of participation from India and we were extremely pleased with the quality of visitors from our country. The Indian industry is looking for new avenues and trying to grasp in the newness of technology from around the world. Value addition, automation and technology now have gained momentum in the Indian textile chain and this ITMA has proved this true, reaffirmed it.

How many successful deals have been cracked at ITMA for your principals?

We and our principals are delighted that we could have advanced level of discussions with many of our customers that reached the final level of maturity. More importantly, ITMA has provided us leads on many potential customers who had visited the stalls of our principals in ITMA to move forward in their decision making process. We are hopeful of concluding many of these orders in the next few weeks through close following up.

The theme for this year's ITMA was 'sustainable innovations', how far has India received the sustainable innovations displayed at ITMA this year?

All the innovations were extremely well received from the Indian perspective and sustainability is certainly the need of the hour. As continuous improvement in operational efficiency has always been the focus area of Indian customers, they did explore the opportunities available to save resources, enhance performance and put a check on energy consumption. The visitors from India explored the technology on offer weighing these parameters and it was quite effective too. And resource consumption is surely a very important concept for the mid size players of the textile industry too. Unlike what many insiders would point out, the mid rung players are equally positive towards automation and green technology like the biggies. And this is a simple mathematics, they have fewer resources and certainly they need to manage the same more efficiently. In line with our customers' expectations, we and our principals are undoubtedly on the path of progress with cost saving and resource conservation as our main agenda. A wide range of products have been exhibited by our principals focusing on technology, automation, flexibility and resource conservation and these were well received by our customers.

Which are most progressive sectors of the textile industry in India?

The primary driver for the industry is certainly classical textiles within which investments in home textiles and knitting sector has been found attractive at the moment. We have seen significant investments happening in home textiles as well as open width knit product manufacturing in the last few years. We opine that this would continue in the future as well. While there is a lot of interest in technical textiles, the investments in this area is still at a slow pace. However, the future will of course open up growth arenas for this segment, especially in the areas of hygiene & medical textiles, automotive textiles, filtration textiles and geotextile sector.

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