Enhancing Textile Processes: Vetal HiTech’s Focus on Contamination Detection
July 06,2024 | By Textile Outlook India
T. Muralidharan, General Manager Marketing at Vetal HiTech Machines Pvt Ltd., Coimbatore, delves into the efficacy of their innovative products in enhancing textile processes in an insightful discussion with Shami Lalwani.
Q: Give us a brief introduction to Vetal HiTech Machines Pvt Ltd.
A: Vetal HiTech Machines is a 30-year-old ISO 9001:2000 certified electronics group company manufacturing products in Coimbatore, South India. Vetal Designs offers quality products and cost-effective solutions for a wide range of industrial applications worldwide in simplified forms, such as Sorting & Detection Equipment for Contamination, Metal, Fire (Spark) in cotton used in spinning (Chute feed blow room with carding), and Ginning, etc.
Q: What are the key highlights of Vetal Hitech Machines’ stall at Texfair 2024?
A: We are continuously improving our products. Here, we have a new model refined for removing contamination from cotton. Additionally, for safety, we have launched new equipment to address fire hazards in storing machines like Unimix, MultiMix, Auto blenders, and so forth.
Q: What, according to you, are some of the emerging trends in the textile industry?
A: The trends are multifaceted. Firstly, due to labor shortages, automation is becoming imperative. Secondly, new fashion designs are being introduced, so customers are no longer sticking to traditional garmenting methods like pure cotton or pure linen. Polyester is also making a comeback. The entire process of fabric production is changing. Additionally, there is a focus on segregation and impurity removal due a lot of unwanted materials or imperfections, leading textile industries to invest more in research equipment for their processes. Production speed is also increasing, presenting additional challenges for the industry.
Q: How are automation and sustainability shaping the future of the textile industry?
A: Automation began with the shift from the Charkha to the Spinning Jenny. Core machines are already automated, and there has been a move towards linking automation from machine to machine. Intralogistics inside the process plant is now crucial due to the high involvement of labor in moving heavy goods. This is being replaced by factory logistics in the textile industry. Storage retrieval systems are also becoming common. Companies aim to reduce labor and replace it with automation for high-speed, heavy-load, or time-consuming monotonous jobs, which is happening across all sectors in the textile industry.
Q: At present, how is the global market for textiles?
A: The global market has been disturbed by the two wars, leading to no improvement in demand over the last one and a half years. Companies are now fighting for limited markets, struggling to get the right price for their products, which affects all businesses in the value chain. The Western economy needs to improve to boost buying, leading to better exports and yields for local companies catering to the domestic market. Everyone is waiting for this improvement, but good times keep getting postponed quarter by quarter with no end in sight.
Q: What are your company’s growth plans for the coming years?
A: Currently, we aim to improve our technology and introduce new versions periodically. Once the market improves, we want to cater to all geographies where we already have a good market share but are currently muted. We are also trying to expand our technology to other segments where there is a demand for automation and inspection requirements, such as camera-based automation, and inspection and sorting requirements for raw materials and finished goods.
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