DYEING UNITS REMAIN SHUT IN TIRUPUR
March 1st, 2011
BY RAGHAVENDRA VERMA
MANUFACTURING units in south India's garment export hub of Tirupur continue to outsource fabric dying to other Indian textile processing centres while the local dyeing factories remain shut due to a court order against water pollution.
"It takes 10 days for the textiles to return from Ludhiana, Calcutta, Surat, Ahmadabad and other places", said S Sakthivel, executive secretary (NOTE - NO FIRST NAME KNOWN) of the Tirupur Exporters' Association, "only 150-odd exporters with sales of more than USD10 million can afford to do that ...
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