The two VDMA Textile Machinery Conferences held in December in Mumbai and Coimbatore have received excellent feedback from Indian textile mills, organisers report.

Sixteen textile machinery builders from Germany presented their latest technologies to more than 270 decision makers and technical management of Indian textile manufacturers.

In Mumbai, the conference was addressed by the honorary guests A. B. Joshi, Textile Commissioner, Ministry of Textiles, Government of India, and Michael Siebert, Consul General of the Federal Republic of Germany.

India’s textile industry

N. Jaganathan, Manager KG Denim, a renowned denim and home textile producer, said: “It was really a well organised conference and a strong technological counter at Coimbatore. Our minds are now sharpened with ambitions to improve the technologies in processing and machinery. We cheer the VDMA efforts for converting this conference very successfully.”

Other famous Indian textile manufacturers that attended the VDMA conferences included Arvind Mills, Birla Textile Mills, Bombay Rayon Fashions, Century Enka, Kusumgar, Mafatlal Industries, Nakoda, Welspun India, Reliance Industries, Rajasthan International, Raymonds, SRF and VTX Industries.

Energy and material efficiency

The focus of the conferences was on technology for fabric production. The technology lectures of the German machinery builders were hold in two parallel sessions ‘Production, Finishing and Dyeing of Knitted Fabrics’ and ‘Production and Finishing of Woven Fabrics’.

In their presentations, the experts and engineers from Germany demonstrated the benefits of German technology, such as productivity, product quality, reliability as well as new or upgraded products, such as technical textiles. High attention was paid to the issue of energy and material efficiency as a key to succeed in keeping costs down and so to increase profitability.

Saving costs

‘Life Cycle Costs’ was also an important topic during the panel discussions after the lectures. The main message from the industry representatives was that the initial price for a German machine pays off after a few years due to low maintenance costs and reliability in production.

The reason behind this, according to experts, is that the investment costs represent only about 10-50% of the overall costs that occur during the entire lifetime of a machine.

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