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The South India Textile Analysis Affiliation (SITRA) has mooted a ₹80-crore undertaking to advertise inexperienced textile processing.
The 70-year-old textile analysis affiliation, based mostly in Coimbatore, has urged the Tamil Nadu and Union governments to help the undertaking, as Indian textile and attire exporters take a look at sustainable manufacturing practices.
Prakash Vasudevan, director of SITRA, advised The Hindu that the plan is to arrange a Centre of Excellence in Tiruppur, which is a hub for garment manufacturing, and strengthen the analysis and improvement amenities at SITRA’s Coimbatore facility.
Garment and made-up producers want to take a look at decreasing water and salt utilization in textile processing to satisfy the sustainability norms of western consumers. The plan is to arrange a Centre of Excellence on 2-3 acres and join it to a typical effluent remedy plant.
All of the textile processing models which might be linked to the CETP will profit from the applied sciences applied by the Centre of Excellence.
The SITRA has already labored on saltless dyeing and is engaged on waterless dyeing, too. The analysis actions will likely be a continuing effort, he mentioned.
A. Sakthivel, chairman of the Attire Export Promotion Council, urged the Union Textile Minister Giriraj Singh to help the undertaking when the Minister visited Tiruppur just lately.
Tiruppur and the close by city of Perundurai are main textile processing centres. Although the dyeing models in Tiruppur have opted for zero liquid discharge, disposing the sludge stays a significant situation for the effluent remedy crops, say business sources.
Printed – July 04, 2026 03:04 pm IST
