Month: September 2017

The textile industry has urged the government to reconsider the decision to reduce the duty drawback rate saying it would badly affect the garment sector in neighbouring hosiery town of Tirupur. Tirupur Exporters Association president Raja M Shanmugham said the reduction in drawback rate to knitwear export sector from 7.6 to two per cent would adversely affect the Tirupur export garment sector. It has come as a rude shock to exporters, who are already facing severe competition in the global market, he said and appealed to the government to have a re-look at the issue If buyers look to...

The Textile Design Exchange (TEDEEX), is an innovative and country’s first online platform to showcase & discover embroidery designs. At this exclusive embroidery market, countless creative designers upload their designs at one place to broadcast it worldwide. TEDEEX offers premium quality designs with perfect punching, matching & measurement, which could be downloaded instantly, saving customers’ time that too at reasonable cost and could be used for all types of embroidery machines. According to the company, on an average more than 500 customers are buying designs via TEDEEX every month. All designs available have different prices ranging from Rs. 100...

The State Government recently directed the Handlooms, Textiles and Handicrafts department to expedite the process for establishment of the proposed apparel incubation centre for promoting entrepreneurship in the apparel and garment sector. Though the Ministry of Textiles had sanctioned a proposal for setting up of an incubation centre at National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT), Bhubaneswar two years back, the proposed centre is yet to come up. Chief Secretary AP Padhi, who reviewed the performance of the department at a high-level meeting, directed the department to extend active support to NIFT for establishment of the incubation centre which would...