-SATISH HANDA
More than 300 dyeing units working for thousands of textile manufacturing units at Panipat in Haryana making curtain cloth, bed sheets, blankets, carpets and other hosiery products supplying to indigenous market as well exports to large number of countries including United States, Europe and Asian countries were hundred percent dependant on dyes and chemicals imported from China till past three years ago. Nearly 250 suppliers of dyes and chemicals in the area has now said good-bye to these imported dyes and chemicals since these are now readily available at lesser prices and in better quality manufactured in the country. Nearly 25 new units to produce dyes and chemicals are being set up at the textile industry hub Panipat at present, however, delayed due to epidemic outbreak in the country, which will not only supply chemicals to textile industry in the country but also export to other countries.
Information reveals, Panipat is known all over the world for manufacturing of textile products including bed sheets, curtain cloth, foot mates, huge variety of ‘Polar’, ‘Mink’, ‘Cloudy’, ‘Planto’ blankets and ‘3D’ bed sheets in much demand across the world being supplied to United States, Europe and Asian countries. Sanjeev Manchanda President of Dyes and Chemical Traders Association Pnnipat told that earlier we were fully dependant on China procuring dyes and chemicals of value worth Rs 1000 crore every year from China and supplying to dyeing units in the town working for textile and blanket industries in the area, but now these are readily available in the country which is likely to increase the graph of growth of textile industry further at Panipat as well as other textile hubs Amritsar, Ludhiana, Bhilwara, Surat and Varansi since dyes and chemicals play an important role in bringing new life and attraction in textile products in textile industry.
Manchanda told that large number of manufacturers in Gujarat at Surat and Ahmedabad developed dyes and chemicals meeting the demand of nearly 1000 ton chemicals every month of Panipat dyeing industry. He said, the prices of dyes and chemicals manufactured in the country are less than those imported from China. Information reveals, ‘Yellow Bright’ chemical now available at Panipat at the price Rs 220 per kg was earlier available at the price Rs 240 per kg. Similarly, ‘Brilliant Blue’ is available at the price Rs 2800 per kg as against earlier price of Rs 3200 per kg imported from China. According to Panipat entrepreneurs, textile and blanket industry has severely affected the sale of these products manufactured in China
