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"Organic, metallic colours will dominate production of textiles"

Yashoda Sampath

Scope of improvements in textile exports discussed at seminar

CHENNAI: Organic and metallic colours and super-soft wools will dominate the production of textiles in fall 2007 and spring 2008, according to P. Sentil Nathan of the National Institute of Fashion Technology.

TANSTIA-FNF Service Centre hosted a seminar on Friday to discuss the current status and potential improvements to be made in textile exports.

Discussion on trends

A discussion of the impact of fashion trends on next year's production was one of a series of lectures.

Other lectures addressed emerging global markets, government support schemes, financing exports and modernisation.

Six primary challenges were cited by H.N. Nagaraju, Regional Textiles Commissioner of Chennai: modernising the powerloom sector, setting up large scale production units, improving quality while lowering cost, ensuring availability of raw materials, cutting delivery schedules drastically and observing social and ecological obligations — the textile industry employs 35 million people.

He said out of 18 to 19 lakh looms in the country, only 30,000 met the international standard. Tamil Nadu has 4,000 automated looms.

A need to counter 40,000 crore rupees of technical textile imports, brought in by the healthcare sector for example, was also cited, by Chandra Prakash Singh, Secretary, Department of Handlooms, Handicrafts, Textiles and Khadi.

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