TEXTILE RESEARCH ASSOCIATIONS - Ministry of Textiles

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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
a n n u a l r e p o r t 0 4 - 0 5SASMIRA is engaged in various activitiesviz. research and development,instrumentation, technical education,dissemination of technical information andorganizing seminars and conferences.The funding from Ministry of Textilestowards the plan grants for researchprojects has been curtailed from thecurrent financial year and it is proposedto decrease the non- plan grant by 10%yearly for the coming year and thesponsored projects from the Ministry ofTextiles have been discontinued.However, SASMIRA has initiated seriesof other activities to fill the gap of fundscreated.Under the package for restructuring highcost debts of textile units in the organizedsector, the Ministry of Textiles hasdesignated SASMIRA for assessing thetechnical viability of these units. In thecurrent financial year SASMIRA hasundertaken four viability studies for thespinning, texturising, weaving andprocessing units namely Man-MadeSpinner (I) Ltd, Yashasvi Yarns Ltd, PalSynthetics and Angad Pal Industries Pvt.Ltd., respectively. SASMIRA hasconducted customized courses andtraining programmes on various topics intextiles namely on printing technology andnarrow width weaving.SASMIRA has been identified as “Centreof Excellence” – Technical Textiles. Itoffers specialized testing services as wellas technical know-how for the technicaltextiles industry. In order to support thefield of technical textiles SASMIRA is inthe process of publishing monographs onvarious topics on technical textiles.SASMIRA has documented information ontechnical textiles for the Expert Committeeof Technical Textiles (ECTT).SASMIRA is now accredited by NationalAccreditation Board for Testing andCalibration Laboratories (NABL). Thecertificate is a general requirement forcompetence of testing and calibrationlaboratory as per “ISO/IEC 17025”. Inorder to serve textile industriesSASMIRA is interacting with variousindustrial hubs like Bhiwandi, Tarapur,Umergaon etc. SASMIRA haveconducted various seminars on EnergyConservations and case studies in textilewet processing in Bhiwandi. Similarseminars have been planned forUmergaon and Tarapur industrial hubsduring this financial year.Research and development staffs haveattended various seminars conducted bydifferent Institutes and ResearchOrganisations. SASMIRA have published11 research and review papers in reputedIndian and International Journals and 6papers are under printing.SASMIRA has participated in InternationalTextile Machinery (ITME) India 2004during December 4-11, 2004. Variousactivities of Research and Developments,Instrumentation, Publications andTechnical and Training Services werehighlighted during this exhibition. Variousparticipants all over India and abroadshowed keen interest in the activities ofSASMIRA.167
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