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.