Entrepreneur column:

‘This is a year of upgrade for industry’

Quote: “Post Covid-19, the attitude of people in the west has undergone a change which is reflected in more demand of industrial use fabric from India. Before the pandemic, exports used to form less than 20 percent of the entire industrial production. Now, it is almost doubling to nearly 40 percent this year. Surge in export came from the European countries. New buyers from France, Turkey and the USA have also started procurement. Even those western companies, who have manufacturing facilities in China, are buying from them.” ………….Rajiv Sajdeh of Indo German Yarn and Fibres

Neeraj Bagga

Tribune News Service

Amritsar, March 9

Rajiv Sajdeh, one of the partners in the Indo German Yarn and Fibres Limited Liability Partnership (LLP), manufacturing technical textile, looks forward to take part in national and international technical exhibitions to upgrade the industrial unit this year.

This is a year of upgrade for the industrial units. So, the tech-textile exhibition, which is held every two years, in Frankfurt, is on top priority and a similar exhibition in the same name is to be held in the USA. Their fresh dates would come anytime.

“In order to keep pace with the technical upgrade taking place around the world in the industrial personal protection textile, it is pertinent to visit the technical exhibitions.”

“Post Covid-19, the attitude of the western people has undergone a change which is reflected in more demand of industrial use fabric from India. Before the pandemic, exports used to form less than 20 percent of the entire industrial production. Now, it is almost doubling to nearly 40 percent this year. Surge in export came from the European countries. New buyers from France, Turkey and the USA have also started procurement. Even those western companies, who have manufacturing facilities in China, are buying from them.”

Next priority on his mind is to go as virtual as possible. This will help in swiftly updating the customers on the availability of new product development and holding web-conferencing to understand their new technical requirements.

For instance, the new thought of carbon fabric being stronger than the steel has gone into the understanding of the top industrialists in the World. BMW has set up its own carbon manufacturing facility in Germany. To make electric vehicles lighter to enable them to run on a single charge on longer distance, carbon fabric is replacing the steel. Another use of the textile fabric is in covering sports grounds. So, it would not be wrong to say that carbon is going to be the future.

They did not experience big fall in the sales during the last year due to pandemic as domestic companies started buying from them which they used to procure in China. He pitches for educational institutes to incorporate industrial education such as industrial personal protection textile in their curriculum and integrate these with the industry. He said he had already contacted the Guru Nanak Dev University with it. This industry needs more chemical and civil engineers with sufficient experience of working in the manufacturing units.

BOX ITEM:

Established in 1996, the firm has been manufacturing technical textiles and yarn, which is used in making Industrial Personal Protection suits. This special fabric, made from polymers of nylon and oxidised fabrics, is inherently fire resistant to high temperature and sharp cuts. The company has manufacturing units at Chheharta and Ramtirath areas of the holy city and offices in Delhi and Mumbai. Already exporting to the Netherlands, Germany and the USA, post covid-19 lockdown period, China, Turkey and France have become new customers.