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Chinese textile machinery will not impact Indian manufacturers
Sapna Dogra - New Delhi
A large section of the textile engineering industry believes that the Chinese
textile machinery manufacturers pose no threat for the Indian textile engineering
sector.
Says Mr Sunil Kumar Jain, senior vice president, NITMA and chairperson IC Textile,
“China cannot make a dent in the Indian textile machinery market today.
Maybe after a few years we might see the presence of Chinese textile machinery
but that will take some time. Basically, the Chinese copy the European models
as many people have observed. Also, textile machinery is a capital equipment
item so people are careful while investing. Chinese have no after-sales service
back-up. Textile mills while approaching any textile machinery company first
see where all do they supply and what is the performance of the machinery and
all this is scanned by technical experts. I really don’t think Chinese
machinery fulfill these criteria. Moreover, for China, language is a big barrier.
Eventually they will penetrate the Indian markets, but it will take quite some
time.”
India’s performance is very bad in manufacturing good quality textile machinery.
According to Mr I N Basu, GM, marketing, Veejay Savio Lakshmi Machinery, “Chinese
machinery has no market in India because their independent manufacturing technology
is way behind that of India. In fact, Indian companies are doing better than
the Chinese, we are at par with international standards. The fact is that many
European textile manufacturing companies are now shifting their manufacturing
base to China, eg, Picanol NV, etc. Therefore, what India is getting is machinery
from the European companies manufactured in China, not the indigenous Chinese
machinery. The indigenous Chinese machinery is poor in quality and it is supplied
to only Eastern Asia and countries like Turkey. India certainly is not a market
for Chinese technology.”
According to Dr Rajaram Jaipuria, chairman, Ginni Filament, “Chinese textile
machinery has no place in India. There’s a market for the machinery produced
in China by European principals. However, indigenous Chinese machinery per se
has no place in India. Even European manufacturers are producing only some of
the machinery, not the entire range in China.”
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