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A Textile SEZ Built to Re-Employ Mill Workers Has Shrunk 87% Since 2007
September 15, 2026
A Special Economic Zone built on the site of a shuttered textile mill, explicitly to re-employ the workers that closure displaced, has b...
Read the piece →Tarpaulin Is a Genuine Export Win. Geotextiles for India's Highways Are the Opposite Story
August 15, 2026
India is the world's largest exporter of HDPE tarpaulin by shipment count, and its shade-net and mulch-film makers largely serve th...
Read the piece →Airbags and Seat Belts Are Import-Heavy. Tyre Cord Isn't. India's Automotive Textiles Aren't One Story
August 15, 2026
Seat belt webbing and airbag fabric are two of the fastest-growing categories in India's automotive textiles, and both remain signi...
Read the piece →Re-Spinning the Charkha
August 03, 2026
Dhirubhai Ambani built one company backward from cloth to crude to escape India's yarn-import bill. Sixty years on, ethanol blending is...
Read the piece →Annexure: 314 HSN Codes Mapped to Technical-Textile Segments
August 03, 2026
Reference table for "From Fuel to Fibre" — every HSN code used in that article's segment analysis, grouped by segment, with e...
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Umashankar Triplicane Dwarakanathan
Investment Promotion & Energy-Sector Leader · Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India