The Indian Technical Textile Association (ITTA) organized a one day International Conference on “Technology & Machinery Innovations for Technical Textiles” held on 19th January, 2019 at Bombay Exhibition Centre, Mumbai. As one of the activities on dissemination of knowledge on technical textiles, ITTA organized conference solely focused on the latest developments on technology and machinery for technical textiles to encourage current producers to expand & diversify, new entrepreneurs to invest in this segment, generate ideas for Start-ups. This event was held parallel to the 2nd Global Textile Technology & Engineering Exhibition (GTTES 2019) organized by India ITME Society from 18-19th January, 2019.
This conference was timed appropriately as just few days back, on 15th Jan, both Ministry of Commerce & Industries and Textiles have recognised it as a Sun Rise Industry and officially notified 207 products as technical textiles and gave a special Identity. These 207 HSN Codes are spread across many chapters. This will now remove confusions in the mind of the manufacturers and give a boost to the investment, growth & ease of business in Technical Textile sector. This was possible with great efforts put in during the last couple of years by ITTA, Industry representatives and the Ministry of Textiles.
There were 11 speakers from Germany, France and India who shared their rich experience and latest information on the supply chain management, marketing challenges, innovative technology and machinery for nonwovens, woven, knitted and advanced finishes and coating technologies.
The major cutting-edge topics of the conference were marketing challenges for technical textiles, Industry 4.0, Sustainable solution to post consumer textiles for automotive nonwovens, latest technology for needle felted nonwovens, innovative solutions and machinery for hygiene applications, cost effective approach to innovation in spunlace technology, warp knitting, latest technology in weaving & weaving preparatory, how to be successful with technical textiles and advance functional finishes which will help the Indian industry to fulfill its expansion plans and to meet various challenges.
All the conference speakers, partners and service providers were acknowledged and felicitated by Dr. K. S. Sundararaman, Chairman, Mr. Amit Agarwal, Vice-Chairman, Mr. Pramod Khosla, Past Chairman ITTA and Dr. Anup Rakshit, Executive Director of ITTA. Mr. Ketan Sanghvi, India ITME Society along with the above ITTA officials graced the inaugural session.
The conference received over whelming response and attended by more than 200 delegates from the technical textile Industry, potential investors, number of graduate & post-graduate students and teachers from various textile and management universities and colleges.