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Travel safe and in-style with Vardhman Fabrics.

In Corporate News fabric by 'textilemagazine' — June 17, 2020 at 10:33 pm.,

We are currently living in a world where Covid-19 is dominating all walks of our life and doesn’t seem to be going away anytime soon. Staying home is an option, but for how long? We have to learn to live with this. People have to go out and carry on with their lives. Therefore, we need a protective garment against the virus not just for ourselves but for our loved ones too. To mitigate this risk, Vardhman Textiles has launched ‘Travel Shield’ range of fabrics with anti-viral and anti-bacterial properties. In addition, these fabrics are water & stain repellent, breathable & easy to care. All in one.

According to Mr. Mukesh Bansal, Head Marketing of the company, these fabrics will definitely make your travel safer, comfortable, and stylish. Further strengthening Vardhman’s commitment towards sustainability, these fabrics are washable and reusable unlike non-wovens. The icing on the cake is that the Travel Shield range of fabrics is made from non-metal based chemistry.

These fabrics come in multiple variants – 100% polyester, 100% viscose, and a blend of cotton and polyester to provide the customers a better performing, soft and easy-care product.
Vardhman has partnered with the pioneers of health care finishes, HealthGuard, an Australia-based company for developing several healthcare finishes like anti-viral, anti-bacterial and anti-dust, etc.
Health-Guard AMIC is 99.94% effective against killing Coronavirus (H1N1)*, SARS & Influenza Virus. It remains active on treated fabric even after 20 home laundering.

*ISO18184 tested.

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http://www.indiantextilemagazine.in/corporate-news/travel-safe-and-in-style-with-vardhman-fabrics/

[ India ITME Society invites you to ITME AFRICA 2020 - Africa's Largest Business Event.]

[ 4 DECADES OF SPEARHADING INN0VATION WITH COMMITMENT TO QUALITY. ]

By Hari Shankar.

The Celebration of overcoming milestones and obstacles is necessary in order to encourage people regarding further processes which are coming one's way. India's ITEM Society, however, prefers to do something much more than conducting more celebrations. To commemorate this occasion, the society is launching a lot of new activities for the betterment of the entire textile society, right from institutes, associations to the industry.

One such activity of the society is an Award contest for the various Associations in the textile society who are working for the betterment of their segment as well as for the hardworking women leaders of this sector. Society has decided to use this opportunity to recognize & give due credits to the honourable service that various Associations are providing to the textile Industry.

Woking to make their venture successful, India ITME Society has called for open nominations from all the Associations of the Industry through the mailers, website and social media campaigns. The award nominations for following categories were called for:
* Category 1 - Outstanding Association
* Category 2 - Digital Adaptation
* Category 3 - Emerging Association
* Category 4 - Women Leadership

To commemorate this occasion, Society launched new activities such as "Global Connect" facilitating industry associations to inter at multiple levels.

Global Connect:

An initiative to give increased global visibility and promotion to the organizations by uploading and linking their logo as the same enables to connect & better services to their websites in being viewed directly by members worldwide.

Additionally, the following complimentary services by India ITME Society strives to bring Manufacturers, Women Entrepreneurs, Institutes, Associations & budding Entrepreneurs together.

Academic Industry Connect

Complimentary services of India ITME website to the Institute, faculty, and students are textile programmes that enable them to join this global programme and showcase their strength as an educational institution to the whole nation and globally. Open asses to a broad programme of activities aligned with the objectives to transfer technological know-how, drive innovation and collaborative networking. Give assess to placement's facilitation free of cost whereby the students can be viewed globally by the company's for opportunities. (Recognized or Govt approved Universities / Institutions only)

Women Entrepreneurs.

Opportunity for 'Women Entrepreneurs' to connect globally on our corporate website. India ITME Society website is offering a platform for women entrepreneurs to empower them & to connect with the industry and business world. This special section is to encourage women to explore their potential in business, creative talents which can be accessed by the textile fraternity world over helping them to connect with Indian & International companies. This facility can be utilized by the inspiring spirit and aspiring women across the globe to spread their wings and connect to peers professionally.

A Special e-library portal - Wisdom of Textiles' to publish the research articles/works by students and technical institutes which can be accessed by the textile fraternity world over creating, connect with companies and other international institutes, enhancing the knowledge exposure, exchange of dialogues for all concerned. Along with showcasing a strong presence, providing technical education and shaping the future generation for the Indian Textile and Textile Engineering Industry.

Webinars

Complimentary access to various technology papers and periodic webinars on key topics in textile technology can be used by the Association and members at the corporate site of India ITME Society.

Opportunity for Investments & Notifications:

To access information on new tenders, business and investment opportunities this section provides the latest updates.

11N ZONE:

An opportunity for members to register complimentary at our corporate business networking section "11N Zone" A unique and exclusive online platform for Textile & Textile Engineering Industry. Your members can list their services/products here free of cost & promote their company/brand worldwide.11N Zone serves an excellent marketing tool for small & Medium Enterprises /Agents/Consultants/Dealers & Service Education & Research Institutions/Trade Magazines//Publication.

True to the mission and vision of the Society a 360-degree effort has been made over the years to connect to upgrade and facilitate every aspect of the textile engineering industry of this nation.

Keeping in mind a long term knowledge of any sustainable development for the next-gen pursuing textile subjects a special interactive session with Prof.Yves-Simon Glory, RWTH Aachan Institute of Textile Technology, Germany is also organized. This shall also benefit the students from all regions of India to interact with an international faculty and also access the latest information on the selected topic.

to lead the Textile Industry & Textile Engineering

Exhibition Industry has acclaimed India ITME Society for its exceptional service with awards like Excellence in Operations, Corporate Excellence, Knowledge Hub, Best Use Of Technology, The Royal Show, & The Mega Quality Award. Best amongst the most deserving, India ITME Society was conferred jointly by the Economic Times & IEIA as India's Top 10 Exhibition Organisers & India ITME Exhibition ranked as India's 1st Runner up in TopB2B Exhibition. Recently India ITME Exhibition won the award of "The Most Eminent Indian Exhibition by an Association - Catalyzing India's Economic Growth."

The Road ahead shall be as challenging and unpredictable but India ITME Society will continue to pursue and strengthen its capabilities to lead the Textile Industry & Textile Engineering to further heights.

The humility of action, the integrity of purpose and transparency of conduct will be key traits driving India ITME Society's growth and journey forward.

Mr.S. Hari Shankar
Chairman
India ITME Society

Permision obtained from Ms. Seema Srivastava, Executive Director "India ITME Society" to Republish above article,, From - ITAMMA VOICE Magazize Vol.MMX1X No.7, December 2019

[ INNOVATION. . NEED OF THE HOUR.]

BY AVINASH MAYEKAR MD & CEO SUVIN ADVISORS PVT. LTD.

Innovations are not that frequent as far as the textile industry is concerned. The industry is very old on  &  has over 100 years of rich experience and standing in which it has mainly catered to conventional needs of textiles and apparels.

It has always been difficult for the textile industry to be innovative, however in recent past, new developments have happened which have forced even the textile industry to go through innovative processes and therefore manufacture products which exhibit the same.

There are many R & D centres and innovative laboratories situated in the USA as well as in Europe which has come up with various products by using different types of raw materials. Research has already happened largely in man-made fibre and processes have become very short in order to save power and go for automation. Many other examples like Medical textiles, Automotive textiles, Geo-textiles, and Sports textiles have reached benchmarks in technical textiles. The major focus of innovation in textiles was on shortening the process by which products will be produced using different types of raw materials and limited resources.

In conventional textiles, the processing flow is from fibre - yarn - - fabric - fabric processing - garments and then. In Technical Textiles, the new technology which is especially from Europe is using through fiber and covering that into that end product. Technologies like the spun less technology, needle punching technology and spun-bond technology are giving finished products directly from the fiber. The process has become very short and at the same time, there is no compromise on the quality of the product mainly because technical textiles are functional textiles. They need to have certain properties. If we are talking of fabrics like parachute fabric or airbag, there should be zero tolerance, Whenever we use a parachute, it has to function properly as it is directly related to the life of a person. At the same time, airbag fabric has one fault, it will result in the life of the driver or co-pilot. Hence, any type of technical textiles means that it should have 100% precision and the same is very achievable through innovation.

As far as the Indian textile industry is concerned we have to be innovative even in our day to day manufacturing process, Every time we have milestones about cost reduction, improvement of quality, improvement in productivity of plant which has to happen across the value chain right from yarn manufacturing, fabric manufacturing, fabric processing and finishing and then garments. In fact we have studied the entire textile industry we have found we have certain issues related to innovation or related to the performance of the Indian textile industry mainly from the point of view of consistency in quality and committed delivery, So, we need to be more focused on these aspects or these issues and come up with our own solution to improve efficiency and quality of fabrics. The workmen need to be trained in order to understand how to give the best performance by using various techniques. Data management, time and motion studies. These simple techniques will help us in increasing our efficiency and productivity and the same will be very much reflected through the procedures we create.     

 

In the Indian textile industry we also need to be more focused on the house keeping especially when its cotton textile industry in which we find that a lot of fluff a fly gets accumulated in various parts of the machine and then it gets carried away with yarn or fabric which creates further issue pertaining to the final product. Hence regular cleanliness needs to be exercised in the production plant. In the Indian textile industry during the process, dyes and chemicals, we find that many times there is a trial and error method. There is no systematic approach towards creating a certain shade keeping proper data base so that when ever similar types of the order come we can find the same solution for it by using similar types of recipes of dyes and chemicals. The water quality's the major criteria as far as dying process is concerned. So monitoring, creating and keeping same

quality of water characteristics through out the year for different processes is more important and effective measures need to be undertaken in order to create a data base for each and every factory which will eventually help them lead to better solutions. The thing now a days is sustainability and when it comes to our textile industry we are far behind in being sustainable. The main thing in our textile industry is that it is highly polluting industry and consumers are demanding various dyes to be used for bright colors for apparels. That is a big challenge to come out and use cotton as much as possible as its biodegradable product and at the same time it has its own values that will help the entire industry to score all the competitors across across the globe.

The quality water characteristics through out the year for different processes is more important and effective measures need to be undertaken in order to create a data base for each and every factory which will eventually help them lead to better solutions. The thing now a days is sustainability and when it comes to our textile industry we are far behind in being sustainable. The main thing in our textile industry is that it is highly polluting industry and consumers are demanding various dyes to be used for bright colors for apparels. That is a big challenge to come out and use cotton as much as possible as its biodegradable product and at the same time it has its own values that will help the entire industry to score all the competitors across across the globe.

Innovation is a great key to success Indian textile industry has this fact that we need to be innovation in our day to day operations using different type of manufacturing,process,using different typed of fibers, coming out with innovative products and making innovation in methods and processes, using different types of manufacturing process, using different fibers, coming out with innovative methods and process that will help the industry grow further. We need to short list what are our weak areas, how to focus on them, how to reduce waste, how to be more profitable in day to day operations,logistics cost which is usually ignored which is also a big area for improvement. Lastly our commitment to come out with the product with in the time frame and give  timely deliveries while fulfilling quality parameters. IF WE DO SO, Then there is no end far as growth is concerned.There is a large share of textile industry waiting for us as we are at second position to China but there is a large gap which we need to address & fill up with our innovative thinking and efforts.

The quality water characteristics through out the year for different processes is more important and effective measures need to be undertaken in order to create a data base for each and every factory which will eventually help them lead to better solutions. The thing now a days is sustainability and when it comes to our textile industry we are far behind in being sustainable. The main thing in our textile industry is that it is highly polluting industry and consumers are demanding various dyes to be used for bright colors for apparels. That is a big challenge to come out and use cotton as much as possible as its biodegradable product and at the same time it has its own values that will help the entire industry to score all the competitors across across the globe.

Let's carve out.....a better tomorrow.

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