蒂鲁巴服装出口商将增加羊毛的使用

 

Tirupur garment exporters set to increase use of wool

Wool is likely to come to the rescue of garment manufacturers in Tirupur who are struggling to maintain the momentum round the year due to lack of adequate diversification into value-added winter garments.
According to The Hindu. garment manufacturers in Tirupur knitwear cluster will explore the possibilities of using wool more in knitwear production to sustain the business all through the year.
“Exporters here are now planning to collectively focus on research to develop knitwear with wool or wool-blended fibres reducing the over dependency on cotton. This move will help avoid slowdowns presently encountered by many factories in the cluster, due to lack of adequate orders for winter garments,” said T. R. Vijayakumar, an apparel exporter and chairman of Research and Development wing in NIFT-TEA Knitwear Institute promoted by the Tirupur exporters.
He said that currently only less than one per cent of the knitwear produced from the cluster use wool as raw material.
M. Veluswamy, another apparel exporter, said that around 85 per cent of the apparels made from the cluster still use cotton as the main raw material. He pointed out that use of wool would help retain heat better than cotton in the garments.

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蒂鲁巴服装出口商将增加羊毛的使用

羊毛可能拯救蒂鲁巴服装制造商，他们今年正努力保持势头，因为缺乏足够多样化的增值冬季服装。

根据Hindu，蒂鲁巴针织集群的服装制造商今年将探索在针织品生产中使用羊毛的可能性来维持业务。

“出口商正在计划共同关注研究开发羊毛针织品或羊毛混纺纤维来减少对棉花的依赖。此举将有助于避免集群中许多工厂减速生产,主要由于缺乏足够的冬季服装订单,”一位服装出口商以及NIFT-TEA 针织品研究院研究发展主席T. R. Vijayakumar说，NIFT-TEA是由蒂鲁巴出口商推举的。

他说,目前只有不到百分之一的针织品生产使用羊毛为原料。

另一位服装制造商M. Veluswamy说，集群内大约85%的服装仍然使用棉为主要原料。他指出,相比棉类服装，使用羊毛将有助于留住热量。