A delegation of 45 Surat-based textile companies that are into home textile, technical textile and high fashion ladies’ garment fabric, recently visited China as part of a study tour.
Ashish Gujarati, President of Pandesara Weavers Co-op Society who was also part of this tour, said that it was organised by Qingdao Haijia Machinery Ltd., and coordinated by their Surat representative Sandeep Kedia of Janki Tara group.
The entrepreneurs visited the airjet weaving factory and waterjet weaving factory and explored that 1000 waterjet and airjet weaving machines were functioning under one roof. One operator was handling 24 machines.
It was explored that the power cost in China is almost the same as in India but their production efficiency was minimum of 95 per cent while in the case of India, it is a maximum of 85 per cent.
Qingdao Haijia Machinery Ltd., has invested 600 crore in fully automatic robotics plants to manufacture weaving machines. This plant, installed by Siemens Germany, produces 16,000 machines per year and is operated by only 20 workers.
The delegation also visited Yancheng City Jing Tain Textile Machinery Co Ltd., manufacturing fully automatic sizing machines. Both manufacturing companies have fully automatic robotics plants. Even the simple process of welding is done by robots.
The President of Pandesara Weavers Co-op Society Ltd., informed that all the textile industry stakeholders and textile associations together should arrange a detailed study tour and prepare a gap analysis report.
