Dye Chem World Expo 2023 to be held at Ludhiana from 24-26 February 2023

23 August 2022: The Dye Chem World 2023 Expo is scheduled to be held at Ludhiana from February 24-26, 2023. The show co-organisers are Society of Dyers & Colourists, AIC-NIFT TEA & NIFT TEA College. The expo is managed by Textile Excellence Magazine and supported by ISCMA. Exhibitor profile includes Dyes, Pigments & Auxillaries, Chemicals & Intermediates, Services for Dyeing, Printing & Processing, QC, Utility & Support Services.

There are three important textile clusters in Punjab – Ludhiana, Jalandhar and Amritsar. Textile and clothing exports from the three clusters alone amount to around Rs.12,000 crore (USD1.6 billion) annually. Major export destinations – USA, UAE, UK, Australia and there are over 1,200 textile and apparel manufacturing companies in the state providing direct employment to 1.2 lakh people in the state’s textile and clothing industry.

Punjab is home to major textile players including Trident, Nahar, Vardhman, Shingora, SportKing, Nivia, Savi, Avani, JCT, Indian Acrylics, among others. There is abundant availability of cotton and man-made fibres in Punjab. MMF raw materials are easily available from players including Reliance Industries Ltd. in Hoshiarpur, Shiva Tex Fabrics in Ludhiana and Aqua Fiber Industries in Mohali, besides acrylic yarn from firms, including Vardhman and Arisudana. PP and PE production getting ramped up in the State. Punjab has 10 major specialised institutes engaged in the textile sector.

There are 349 ITIs offering over 70 courses, including textile and apparel sector courses, with an intake capacity of about 80,000 students. Besides 130 diploma and polytechnic colleges, the state also has 193 engineering colleges with an annual capacity of 28,000 students. The state government has identified textiles as a focus area under the Industrial Business Development Policy (IBDP), 2017. It offers attractive incentives such as net GST reimbursement and employment subsidy to ultra-mega, mega projects, anchor units, thrust sector units and MSMEs.

Ludhiana is attracting mega investments across the textile value chain, giving a boost to technical textiles as raw material availability improves. There is easy availability of skilled, semi-skilled workers as Ludhiana has 33 ITIs of which 13 ITIs offer textile and apparel related courses.

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