Preparations begin for Nov mega textile fair at Texvalley

COIMBATORE: Texvalley, an Integrated Textile Market, in Erode district organised a pre-launch meet, “WEAVES 2019” here for the 2nd edition of the mega textile fair to be held in the month of Nov 2019 at ‘Texvalley’.

Mr. R. Amalorpavanathan, deputy managing director, NABARD, Mumbai, released the ‘WEAVES 2019’ brochure and launched the official website of the fair in the presence of Periyaswamy, chairman-Texvalley, and P Raajashekar, managing director of Texvalley.

Speaking on the event, C Devarajan, vice-chairman, Texvalley, said, “Weaves 2019 will be the combination of concepts including business, networking, connecting the domestic entrepreneur globally, one-to-one meeting, brand promotion and honoring the legends.”

He further said, ‘Erode textile cluster produces 47 per cent of the state domestic consumption. About five lakh power looms with six lakh weavers are consuming 5,000 tonnes of yarn per day and 15 million metres of fabrics being produced per day.’

In addition, 150 processing and printing mills are functioning in Erode region. Weaves will be the right platform for the micro and small entrepreneurs to learn how to compete with clusters on standards, quality and supply," he said.

According to him, at ‘Weaves 2019’, the exhibitors will have potential to showcase large variety of yarns, fabrics, garments, home-textiles, sustainable cloths and ethnic wear. “There are more than 50 international buyers will be visiting this fair for sourcing south Indian textile materials,” he added.  The second edition is scheduled to be held from Nov 27 to 30, 2019.