Productivity also gets affected time to time by fluctuation in power in such areas. Unlike spinning industry weaving loom sector is mostly concentrated in small areas of nations, where power fluctuation is a matter of routine. Higher power tariff is also one of the biggest challenges this industry is facing. The Indian loom industry is small scale unlike industry of China and Taiwan and therefore incurs high co-ordination cost. USA and Russia has highest proportion of modern shuttleless looms. While competitors like China and Indonesia are far ahead in this modernization. Following chart shows comparison of shuttleless loom proportion of India with other countries.Īs described in the chart India has lowest number of shutteless looms among all competing countries.
In world share of shuttleless looms India ranked 9th. In 2001, there were some 27,000 shuttleless cotton looms in Indonesia, 21,000 in Thailand and 10,000 in India. Shuttleless weaving looms are up to three times more efficient than shuttle looms, but the penetration of modern shuttleless loom is very less. Value addition and the manufacturing of fabrics according to customer’s compliances, is not possible due to obsolete technology of looms. There are less than 15,000 modern looms, whereas traditional looms are in large numbers. Most of the looms we have currently in country are shuttle-less. The ministry projected the number of power looms to rise to 1.95mn in 2006-07.īut modernization in looms is less and Indian industry still lags significantly behind US, China, Europe, Taiwan etc. With its employment of 4.86mn workers, the power looms sector comprised approximately 60% of total textile industry employment.Īs per textile ministry of India up till March 31, 2006, the power looms sector - which produces various cloth products, including greige and processed fabrics - consisted of 430,000 units with 1.94mn power looms. The power loom sector produces more than 60% of cloth in India and textile ministry’s estimation says that more than 60% of the country’s cloth exports originated from that sector. India has 1.8mn Shuttle looms which is 45% of world capacity, and 3.90mn handlooms which is 85% of world capacity. There are approximately 5mn looms in the country. India has world’s largest installed base for looms. The sector consists of fragmented, small and often, un-registered units that invest low amount in technology and practices especially in the power loom, processing, handloom and knits. Nature of this sector is mainly unorganized. Moreover structure of the industry plays a major role in making it competitive. Though weaving is one of the important sector for Indian textile industry, it has not been given due attention like spinning sector. Today, Air-jet, Water-jet, Rapier and other computer operated looms are used to maximize production of special materials. As developments and innovations take place, various types of looms were developed for faster production. But as the industrial demands for faster production accelerate, faster looms without shuttle came in use in early part of 20th century. Originally Power looms were with shuttle, and they were very slow.
The first power loom was invented by Edmund Cartwright in 1785. History of weaving looms can be traced back to 17th century.
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