TEXTILE RESEARCH ASSOCIATIONS - Ministry of Textiles

m i n i s t r y o f t e x t i l e sSurgewear Ltd., Mordi Processors,Executive Garments, Pasupati Spinningand Weaving Mills, Raj Vidya Kendra,Winsome Spectrum, Sara Elgi Group andZydex Industries etc.NITRA has also developed some state ofthe art instruments like Fabric HandTesting Instrument (for measuring fabrichand), Draftometer (instrument formeasuring drafting force for sliver androving; useful for spinning of dyed fibres),Friction Tester (instrument for measuringfabric and fibre friction) and Soft and HardCore Yarn Attachment at Ring Frame andModified Wrap Reel (to measure soft coreyarn count).The NITRA conducted 90 technicalconsultancy jobs on different parametersof textile, garment and allied industry.NITRA’s Environment Division developedtechniques to recover and reuse theeffluents discharged from textile dyeingunits without using Reverse Osmosis(RO). The first water recovery plant wascommissioned in one of the processingplants situated in Ghaziabad three yearsback. After fine-tuning the intricacies ofthe technology of water recovery, NITRAhas successfully commissioned waterrecovery plants in Rajasthan and Haryana.The system is capable to recover andreuse about 50% to 70% of the processingeffluent back into the process house.Energy conservation is another areawhere NITRA has rendered services to itsmembers. In the last year NITRA’s energyteam conducted a number of energy audits(thermal, electrical, power quality,humidification, air conditioning, D.G. setsand compressors) by which the mills couldsave to the tune of 10% to 20% of theirenergy bill.NITRA has been designated as a nodalagency by the Ministry of Textiles forassessing technical viability(TEV) of textileindustry for availing the benefit ofrestructuring their debt profile under the“Debt Restructuring Package forOrganised Textile Mills”. NITRA hascompleted TEV Study in 30 different unitsduring the reported period.NITRA’s labs have carried out 5164 testingjobs on different parameters of textiles,dyes, chemicals and effluents during thereported period. It also carried out 43fabric defect analyses. Its SoftwareDevelopment Centre developed threelatest softwares of different nature,suitable for small and medium scaleindustry at a very nominal price. AmongstHRD activities, to educate the industry,NITRA organised 45 workshops /seminars / training programmes / lecturemeets / talk sessions for the benefit oftextile, garment and non-textile unitsspreading across length and breadth ofthe country as well for the development ofits own workforce.SYNTHETIC & ART SILK MILLSRESEARCH ASSOCIATION.(SASMIRA), MUMBAIThe Synthetic & Art Silk Mills’ ResearchAssociation (SASMIRA), Mumbai is a cooperativeventure set up by the man-madetextile industry of India with the primeobjective of rendering scientific andtechnical assistance to the textile industry.166