The Growth of the Textile Industry in India

Posted by rajaram patil on May 20th, 2021

India has been known globally for its amazing fabric goods. Textile manufacturing has not only helped India make a name for it amongst other industries but also helped import and export. Discussed in this article is how the industry grew to where it is today and what are some future prospects for it.

Textile manufacturing has been one of India's oldest and most valuable ventures, dating back to several centuries. It is enormously vast and varied, from hand-woven and hand-spun textiles on one end to capital-intensive mills on the other.

Market trends

To grow in this industry, any textile company has to understand the market trends, especially since it has changed after the global pandemic. Recently there has been a significant increase in the demand for natural fibres. This can mainly be credited to the fact that natural fibres are a lot more durable and lighter when compared to more conventional fibres and hence have a significant application in both the automotive industries and consumer markets.

You can find natural fibres from animals and plants, including but not limited to silk, cashmere, wool, jute, hemp, and obviously cotton. These fibres have been largely adopted in the industry for making apparels, garments, construction materials, interiors of automobiles, and medical dressings, among the several other uses it has. India, being one of the countries with abundant natural fibres, especially cotton and silk, has been able to grow exponentially in the global market.

The future prospect of textile industries

Given the data and the numbers, any textile company owner will know that this is only the beginning, and this industry will keep growing a lot more in the near future. The constantly shifting population of the country, especially with more babies and elderly now, has made space for non-woven fabrics, typically used to make hygiene products like sanitation napkins, baby diapers, and even certain adult incontinence products. The high demand and low maintenance cost of non-woven fabrics are expected to skyrocket its demand in the coming years.

This only goes to show how well the Indian textile industry is catching up with the rest of the world, if not overtaking them. That said, the textile industry is one such ever-evolving industry that has a very great road to success set ahead and will surely prosper in the coming years with several new products and innovations lined up already.