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Tirupur : Vehicle sales have been strong and knitwear exports have been rising smartly for the past three months.This has ensured good business in the industrial towns of Coimbatore and Tirupur, but there is a problem of sorts.
These towns, which were once spilling over with excess migrant labour, are now facing a huge manpower shortage.
Coimbatore is one of the largest component suppliers for automakers such as Ashok Leyland and Maruti and Tirupur is India's knitwear capital. It
January 20, 2010
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Tirupur : The current trend of heavy dependency on cotton-based knitwear products would restrict the export opportunities, besides catering to the clothing needs of summer seasons only.
Exporters were not able to supply winter season clothing because of non-availability of the right kind of synthetic fibre and lack of technology for processing the special fibre Garment exporters in knitwear hub of Tirupur, with annual outbound shipments of products worth Rs 12,000 crore, are gearing up for ma
January 8, 2010
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Tirupur : Even as the New Year has cheered the export prospects for thousands of knitwear units at Tirupur, what has dampened their spirit is the continuing strike by the dyeing units in support of their demand for sharing the cost of effluent treatment by the Centre and Tamil Nadu Government.
On Monday, the indefinite strike spearheaded by Dyers association of Tirupur entered 11th day and the exporters are worried about meeting the delivery schedules on time. "If the strike continues further
January 8, 2010
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Manufacturers of knitted garments in India’s ‘knitwear city’ Tirupur, fear that their orders from European and US retailers are in jeopardy as the region’s dyers strike heads into its third week. Dyers are striking in protest at the government’s insistence that they share the cost of effluent disposal.
The garment exporters are said to be worried about meeting delivery schedules after the indefinite strike spearheaded by the Dyers Association of Tirupur (DAT) entered its 11th day
January 7, 2010
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Tirupur : The continuing strike by the dyeing unit owners in Tirupur is giving jitters to the clothing exporting sector in this South India based textile and garment hub. At a time when the order position of most of the garment exporters seems to be improving, this strike could put a spanner in the works and dampen their spirits.
The dyeing units have struck work in support of their demand that the state and the central government share the cost of treating effluents discharged by these unit
January 6, 2010
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