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THE TEXTILE MAGAZINE
AUGUST 2011
The one-day ITMA-ITMF World
Textile Summit to be held in Barce-
lona on September 21 will be bring-
ing together textile industry leaders
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ential thinkers and policy makers in
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as economics, trade, technology and
sustainability.
It sets out to deliver an inspirational,
forward-looking agenda, comprising
expert presentations and interactive
panel discussions designed to offer a
global perspective on the opportuni-
ties and challenges that face the tex-
tile industry in the years ahead, and
providing delegates with new ideas to
maintain their success in the textile
manufacturing and supply chain.
The co-founder and Managing Di-
rector of Alok Industries, India’s big-
gest integrated textile enterprises, Mr.
Dilip B. Jiwrajka will address interna-
tional industry leaders at the World
Textile Summit.
Mr. Jiwrajka has been responsible
for steering Alok Industries through
a quarter of a century of astonish-
ing growth and is recognised as one
of a handful of Indian entrepreneurs
who correctly read the impact of the
dismantling of bilateral trade quotas
during the past decade and responded
imaginatively to the opportunities of
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world textile Summit
the new business order.
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he incorporated Alok Industries in
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with a turnover of around 700 mil-
lion Euro, the business has expanded
downstream into weaving, knitting,
processing, home textiles, garments
and retail, and upstream into cotton
spinning and the manufacture of par-
tially oriented yarn through continu-
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production is exported.
Mr. Jiwrajka will join a powerful
speaker panel that will include Du
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of the technical-textile leader Ten-
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the world’s biggest textile-machinery
manufacturer, Oerlikon Textile, and
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al advocate for sustainable business
practice – will be a keynote speaker at
the Summit.
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Machinery Manufacturers, and the
International Textile Manufacturers
Federation (ITMF), and is being or-
ganised in partnership with the World
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and international event organiser MP
International. Oerlikon Textile, is the
Summit’s Platinum Sponsor.
Mr. DILIP B. JIWRAJKA
, co-founder & Managing Director
ItMA 2011
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