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Himson shuttleless looms for jute industry

By Pratim Ranjan Bose

KOLKATA AUG. 5. Indian Jute Industries' Research Association (IJIRA) has tied up with Gujarat based Himson to develop shuttle less looms for the jute industry. The project is a part of the forthcoming Technology Mission on Jute under the National Textile Policy.

The previous effort to develop the same under national jute development programme (1993-98) with Laxmi Machine Works (LMW) of Coimbatore has failed, arguably due to lack of industry support. Incidentally shuttle less looms are in use in the cotton textiles industry for decades now.

Talking to The Hindu, highly placed sources in IJIRA said apart from Himson the research institute had tied up with Lagan Jute Machinery Co. (LJMC) and Central Mechanical Engineering Research Institute (CMERI), Durgapur, for developing high speed spinning machines and automated jute bag making machines.

While the first one is directly related to productivity, the latter, if developed, would reduce labour cost of the industry significantly as sewing of jute bags is now done manually.

Stating that the development of shuttle less looms would mark a quantum jump in the technological status of jute industry, now living in a `primitive' age, the sources said that such looms as earlier developed by LMW for hessian manufacturing had shown significant increase in quality of the fabric.

"Overall rise in efficiency level from 65-70 per cent to 80-85 per cent were recorded". The project, monitored by Indian Jute Manufactures Association (IJMA) was, however, left midway due to various reasons.

Meanwhile, IJIRA is working in partnership with two Coimbatore based textile engineering companies for development of spreader machinery and high-speed flyer spinning machines. The project is in an advanced stage of completion.

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