Inhaltsverzeichnis. Technical textiles to be top priority in new Indian policy

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.. 4 Technical textiles to be top priority in new Indian policy 21 November 2016 Technical textiles will be given top priority under the impending national textiles policy as this sector has a huge

1 Inhaltsverzeichnis Technical textiles to be top priority in new Indian policy... 1 Indonesian government bids to improve textile warehouses... 2 Russian government to attract private funds to domestic textile industry... 4 Technical textiles to be top priority in new Indian policy 21 November 2016 Technical textiles will be given top priority under the impending national textiles policy as this sector has a huge potential for growth in India, said Union textiles minister Smriti Irani. She also said that there s an opportunity for the Indian khadi to be processed with ayurvedic drugs to offer wellness garments, which are popular in western countries. There s a need to collaborate with companies from various countries like Japan and Germany to boost technical textile in India. There is potential for huge growth in geotextiles and agrotextiles, which would also benefit farmers in the country, said Irani while addressing the participants at an interactive session titled 'Textiles: Today & Tomorrow' at the Gujarat Chamber of Commerce & Industry (GCCI) in Ahmedabad. Responding to the demands from Gujarat state textile players that textile and apparel goods be included in the lowest slab under the proposed Goods & Services Tax (GST) bill, Irani said that basic necessities of food, clothing and housing were priorities for the government. On the long pending FTA with the European Union, which was impacting exports from India, while those of Bangladesh were zooming ahead due to preferential tariffs, she said the negotiations would be done keeping in mind the interest of the Indian textile industry.

2 However, she did not provide a timeline by which the FTA would be finalised or come in to force. Regarding the seasonal nature of employment in the garment industry, she said the Rs 6,000 crore garment package has already become effective and under it, the government was providing various benefits to the employees, so that companies were not burdened with providing various compliance benefits to the workers. On offering subsidies to those who wanted to invest their own capital under TUFS as against subsidies offered only on bank loans, she said the TUFS scheme was meant for those who did not have capital in hand and hence they were the ones who needed those subsidies. The minister also added that it was the job of various textile and garment associations, including the GCCI, to inform the various SMEs in the sector about the benefits offered by the package. Irani also suggested collaborations between stakeholders in various segments of the Gujarat textile value chain like ginners, spinners, weavers, fabric processors and also garment producers to set up integrated facilities, to ensure that raw cotton produced in the state is processed in the state itself, while also adding value through processing cotton. She urged trade bodies to approach the ministry with the challenges they were facing and it would be her endeavour to see that they are addressed to the utmost possible. (KD) Content provided by Fibre2FashionBy Telly Nathalia 02 November 2016 Indonesian government bids to improve textile warehouses By Telly Nathalia 02 November 2016 A senior official at Indonesia s industry ministry has revealed its plans to boost the effectiveness of newly established warehouse storage systems for textile industry inputs, helping the country s manufacturers to source supplies swiftly and efficiently. Achmad Sigit Dwiwahjono, the industry ministry's director general of chemical, textile and various industries, hails the government s new bonded warehouses, where supplies can be admitted without paying excise duty, as a major advance, hailing improvements in operations facilitated by a cotton handling logistics centre.

3 He highlights the government s establishment this year of a major storage centre in the Cikarang dry port area, around 58km east of the capital Jakarta, which has been operating smoothly. It has also been praised by Indonesian textile industry executives. There is a big storage at Cikarang Dry Port, where suppliers from overseas put their products, so domestic customers do not need to go out of the country to meet those suppliers, but only need to come to the dry port, says Dwiwahjono. To improve operations, the ministry s education and training department has been helping to improve the capacity and quality of human resources of workers at this inland port to undertake quality control of its stored supplies on site. At the dry port, products are ready, the warehouse is ready, he says, adding that next year the government would finance the installation of more equipment for commodities quality control because there are many types of cotton. The industry ministry reveals its training officials were also working with Indonesia s ministry of education and culture, along with textile businesses, to operate a programme called 3 in 1, which is designed to produce young well-trained workers for textile industry. The system will see student places funded at vocational textile schools, especially those in West Java and Central Java, the country s two key textile industry bases. We bring children graduated from vocational schools from senior high school level [or SMK Sekolah Menengah Kejuruan], he says. We train them to become ready-to-use workers for textile industry. He notes that in Central Java and West Java, colleges offered an SMK textile qualification. Next, we will establish a SMK petrochemical qualification in Surabaya, East Java, he says, highlighting the importance of developing a domestic artificial fibre sector. The official says the current government under president Joko Jokowi Widodo was determined to take a proactive role in increasing the value and volume of Indonesian textile exports. According to Dwiwahjono, the industry ministry has been building links between Indonesian producers and designers and promote their products and designs within nontraditional markets outside Indonesia.

4 We facilitate through the supply chain, he says. There are several exhibitions abroad, for example in the Russian market, where we in collaboration with designer Itang Yunasz are promoting Indonesia s textiles this year. Meanwhile, the senior official stresses that his ministry was aware of the need to protect Indonesian producers from illicit imports of textile products, which are undercutting legitimate manufacturers. Dwiwahjono also states that the ministry is continuing to work to reduce the price of electricity charges to the sector. He claims that state-own electricity firm PLN Perusahaan Listrik Negara has now promised to cut textile industry bills, but had yet to implement the policy. We need to synchronise this, he says. The pledge comes after pressure from the Indonesian Textile Association (API Asosiasi Pertekstilan Indonesia) for a 30% cut in textile sector electricity tariffs. Russian government to attract private funds to domestic textile industry By Eugene Vorotnikov 27 October 2016 The Russian government is planning to facilitate up to US$300m in private investment for the development of the national textile industry, according to an official spokesperson of Denis Manturov, Russia s minister of industry and trade. He reveals that funds will be invested in the establishment of large-scale facilities specialising in textile production, with the aim of ensuring that such plants would be located across the country. The ministry wants to deal with a long-term problem, that share of private money in Russian textile sector investment has thus far been insignificant. Its plans would significantly increase that funding during the next several years, says the spokesperson. Other ministry officials claim that several private textile investment projects, funded by Russian banks and private investors, will be launched by the end of this year (2016). But they refused to reveal the names of these participating banks and investors, saying that negotiations on the extent and direction of the investment were still under way. That said, officials confirm that the first of these new privately funded projects will be established in the Ivanovo region, north east of Moscow, and an established centre of

5 Russian textile production. More of the subsequent projects will be in European Russia including a likely plan in St Petersburg than east of the Urals. According Manturov s spokesperson, the Russian government is also considering indirect investment into the sector, through establishing a special bank focused on textile funding projects. According to the spokesperson, it will operate on a similar model as the Russian Agricultural Bank (Rosselkhozbank), which provides cheap loans to Russian farmers and agribusiness. Most capitalisation for the newly established bank will come from the Russian government, claims the official, stressing that this would be a priority project. The bank would operate a special development fund that would assess and select promising textile sector projects for support. In the meantime, Russian textile producers welcome the initiative, but warn that the plan will not be without risks and pitfalls, noting that Russian textile manufacture has never been among the most profitable segments of Russian industry. Industry officials warn that private banks would need persuading to take part, given that they usually prefer to provide funds projects with faster returns. Sergey Kolinov, deputy director of Ocharovanie, an Ivanovo-based Russian producer of textile products, says: In recent years, the profitability of the Russian textile sector has significantly declined, which was mainly due to the decline of consumption of textile products in Russia and the economic crisis in the country, caused by Western sanctions. In addition, the majority of domestic textile production is still unable to compete with cheap imports from China and Turkey. Due to this, the provision of funds for the establishment of large-scale production facilities may be associated with serious risks for the Russian banks, as payback periods of these projects may be too long for them. Kolinov adds that the performance of the Russian textile industry has been stagnant since However, highlighting a potential focus for private investors, he reveals the government has paid more attention to developing technical textile and nonwovens industries, whose products have been in increasing demand over recent years. Sämtliche Inhalte stammen von World Textile Information Network (WTiN). Hier geht es zur WTiN-Website:

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