Product and Machinery Development

• Woven arterial prosthetic graft for human implantation.
• Two-for-one twister.
• Decorticating machine.
• Kapas purifier.
• High speed reels.
• Six – spindle mini ring frame.
• 12 testing instruments.
• Break – through in production of yarns from Pineapple leaf fibre.
• Jute cotton yarn.

Development of Decision Tools for Management

• A single composite index expressing fibre properties of cotton (FQI).
• Equations to predict yarn quality from cotton properties.
• Methodology for productivity assessment in spinning mills.
• Criteria for capital investment.
• Mathematical expression relating operational parameters to costs and profits.
• Indicators of health and sickness of spinning mills.
• Norms for quality and productivity.
• Computer software packages for higher productivity in mills.

General

• Instrumental for almost universal adoption of 7 days a week and 24 hours a day working in SITRA member mills.
• SITRA member mills record the highest spindle utilisation in the world.
• International training programmes for foreign nationals (53 programmes completed with a total of over 1400 participants).
• 7 powerloom service centres and one textile service centre.
• 56 patents.
• Implementation of double hank plain reeling (DHPR).
• 730 publications comprising research reports, mill control reports, focus, trends and monographs broughout.
• 36 books on textiles broughout.
• Over 1000 research papers published in International and Indian journals.
• 30,000 copies of norms for productivity and quality sold.