The Textile Association of India (TAI), Vidarbha in collaboration with Indian Textile Accessories & Machinery Manufacturers’ Association (ITAMMA) organized a workshop on ‘Creating the ecosystem for innovation & technology development. The main theme of the workshop is to discuss how the Textile Industry can help to create an ecosystem for innovation and R&D in textile engineering industry.

Kishore Khaitan, President, ITAMMA said that it would be a plenary session, where industrialists, machinery manufacturer and industry expert will give details on the trend of innovations and technology developments taken place in the textile industry. The members of the round tables would give their views on the viability of innovations and developments as well as the actual required at the grassroots level.

Dr Hemant Sonare, Secretary of TAI, Vidarbha said that the workshop will be followed by B2B catalogue display show. The event will give the platform for more interaction between the mill persons and the suppliers at doorsteps of the user industry and in shortest time, thus helping them in enriching their knowledge and enhancing their business.

He added that the auto industry is the prime example where the indigenous development of the auto-components industry has helped India to become a major, globally competitive manufacturer of automobiles as well as auto-components, thereby also reducing import content and increasing exports and employment.

Similar success can be achieved in the textile engineering sector if the right ecosystem is put in place with co-operation of all stakeholders.This being a critical mission of national importance, it is imperative that captains of industry and academia along with senior government leadership actively participate in the workshop and contribute their ideas.

About 37 exhibitors from textile engineering industry and more than 450 visitors from the textile Industries in and around Nagpur, Yavatmal, Amravati, Buldhana, will be attending the events.