INDIA KNITTING TECHNOLOGY MISSION LOOKS TO BOOST SYNTHETIC KNIT EXPORTS
June 5th, 2014
INDIA’S newly launched Knitting Technology Mission (KTM) project is primarily trying to diversify the country’s knitwear exports with a shift away from cotton to manmade fibre based knitted goods. The KTM committee chairman Dr A Sakthivel has hailed the project as a “platform to add value across the supply chain.”A lot of its work will focus on Tirupur in the state of Tamil Nadu, India’s knitwear hub, home to nearly 80% of Indian knitwear production. But the region’s “share of manmade fibre knit products is meagre” limiting its scope in going into ...
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