Is india geared up for the digital textile revolution ?

Is India geared up for the digital textile printing

revolution?

Aditya Chandavarkar CEO

InkjetForum India

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Contents

Indian Economy & Textile Industry

Textile supply chain & Cluster areas

Digital Textile Printing in India

Current Scenario – Equipment & Inks

Opportunities

Challenges

Inkjet Forum India Initiative


Indian Economy

• Large, dynamic and steadily expanding

• Characterized by a huge workforce operating in many new

sectors of opportunity

• 4th Largest economy based on PPP

• Average GDP Growth Rate: 7% (Since 1997)

• GDP Growth Rate in 2010: 9.7%


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Indian GDP Growth


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Driven primarily by domestic consumer consumption.

Massive growth of the Indian middle class - Asia's 'buy' economy

2001-2007 saw per capita income of India rise by 62%

Major consumer demand is being generated by fast growing middle class & people from the booming IT-BPO sector

Growing Indian economy increasing demand for the products of the India Textile Industry

Indian Economy & Textile Industry


Indian Textile Industry

• One of the leading textile industries in the world

• Major contributor to fast growing Indian industrial

sector

• Contributes:

• - 27% to total foreign exchange earning

- 14 % to industrial production,

- 4 % to GDP

- 17 % to export earnings.

• Provides employment to over 35 m people

• 2nd largest provider of employment after agriculture


• India occupies a pivotal position in the global

textile dyeing and printing industry

• 7th in the trade of textile dyeing and printing

• 5th in the trade of ready made garments

• The output of the Indian colorant industry in 2000

accounted for 5% of the total global output and

12% in 2010


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Textile & Apparel Supply Chain


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Powerloom Other


Textile Cluster Areas

Company Turnover (2008 – 09)US $ billion

Business Areas

Welspun India Ltd 1.19 Home textiles, bathrobes, terry towels

Vardhman Group 0.7 Yarn, fabric, sewing threads, acrylic fibre

Alok Industries Ltd. 0.62 Home textiles, woven and knitted apparel fabric, garments and polyester yarn

Raymond Ltd 0.54 Worsted suiting, tailored clothing, denim, shirting, woollen outerwear

Arvind Mills Ltd 0.48 Spinning, weaving, processing and garmentproduction (denims, shirting, khakis, knitwear)

Bombay Dyeing Ltd 0.27 Bed linen, towels, furnishings, fabric for suits, shirts, dresses and saris in cotton and polyester blends

Garden Silk Mills Ltd 0.27 Dyed and printed fabric

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Major Textile Companies in India


Digital Textile Printing in India

Digital textile printing is in its initial stage

Market is opening up and growth in DTP is very recent

Estimated Market Size - 31 million linear meters/year

Estimated Market Value - US $ 100 million/year

Printing Units – 500 to 2000 linear meters/day



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Digitally Printed Sarees

Average Saree Length: 5.5 m

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Fast Adoption Slow Adoption


Adoption of DTP

Current Scenario – Equipment

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Mimaki La Mecchanica – TX-2 & JV 5 Based Printers MS – JP5 & JP6 Kornit Reggiani Stork/SPG Prints Atexco Zimmer - ChromoJET

New Entrants – Zimmer Colaris, Robustelli Monalisa, Durst

Rhotex 320, Konica Minolta Nassenger Series17

Major OEM’s in India


Current Scenario – Inks

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Ink Pricing in India

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YEAR PRICE($/Rs.)

1998 360 / 18000

2002 240 / 12000

2004-2006 160 / 8000

2007-2008 120 – 100 / 6000-5000

2010 70 – 50 / 3500-2500

2011-2013 ???

Price Reduced by >80% in 12 years


Opportunities

Manufacturing Flexibility

Lower Lead Times

Favourable Demand Conditions

- Large, Growing Domestic Market

Strong Presence of related & supporting

industry

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Opportunities

Industry competition – promotes innovation

Applications

- Apparel (esp. ladies clothing)

- Home furnishings

- Soft signage (advertising use of textiles)

- Flags & Banners

- Finished garment / T-shirt / sportswear printing


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Challenges

Lack of knowledge in industry

Requirement of technical trained operators

Cost issue – understanding of DTP cost model

Information dissemination by OEM’s & distributors for optimal use of DTP technology

Customers should actively educate themselves & their staff


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Challenges

Readily Available Technical / Application support.

Domestic Market

Institutional Support

“The emphasis should be more on the long term cost

advantages the complete package of Digital Textile

Printing technology offers.”


About Inkjet Forum India

A fresh initiative in the area of Inkjet printingtechnology to organise:

Conferences Education Programs Workshops

Conduct Market Research

Experience & Understanding of Printing

Technology

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Objectives

Assist the Indian inkjet printing industry

to:

Keep updated with technological developments

Understand the various applications & their

requirements

Understand market trends


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29th - 30th November 2012,

JW Marriott, Mumbai

Focus Areas

- Printing Technology

- Ink

- Design/Software

- Pre/Post Processes

- Applications


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Industry Support


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Any Questions ?? … Discussions ??

Aditya ChandavarkarCEO, Inkjet Forum India

M: +91 9869441285Email: [email protected]: www.inkjetforumindia.com


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