Mr. S. Hari Shankar, Chairman & Members of Steering Committee of India, International Textile Machinery Exhibitions Society, along with the Jury members takes great pride & pleasure in announcing the winners as below:
- Category 1 – Top Performance in Textile Engineering Industry
Under the Spinning Segment, Lakshmi Machine Works Limited, is accorded the award.
Although other enterprises were neck to neck, the truly Indian make innovation in the product portfolio, systematic skill development program, and a detailed policy for quality and control introduced by Lakshmi Machine works impressed the jury members. They are producing the entire range of Spinning Machinery.
Under the Weaving & Preparatory Segment, Rabatex Industries is accorded the award. Rabatex brand is well known for weaving preparatory machines and has excelled a lot in coming years for producing appropriate technology and giving service support to their customers for past six decades. They are offering sampling machines, sectional warping machines, rewinding machines to the textile industry.
Under Finishing Segment, Texfab Engineers (India) Pvt. Ltd. is accorded the award. Texfab is one of the leading manufacturers and exporters of fabric finishing machine, fabric dyeing machine. Having strong customer service support and being a 100% Indian organization jury members have selected them as a winner in this category.
Under Printing Segment, ColorJet India Ltd. emerged as a winner due to innovative concept developed within India which is now gaining a lot of importance in overseas market. Colorjet digital printing machine have also adopted green concept in producing and promoting digital printing machines.
Under the Accessories for entire textile machinery segment, Lakshmi Card Clothing Manufacturing Company Private Limited is selected as a winner mainly due to their excellent service support innovative product range and stringent quality control systems for spinning industry.
- Category 2 – Best Initiatives for Pollution Control Technology
Under this category, S. A. Pharmachem Pvt. Ltd. is accorded the award.
The company has developed a supporting recycling technology system. The technology under nomination was a size recovery and reuse system from de-size wash liquor, a caustic purification system after mercerization wash liquor, and Indigo dye recovery and reuse. The initiative is fruitfully answering the call of industry. It is also an established product offering water saving with a strong customer base for all three products.
3. Category 3 – Special Award for Women
The nominations received under this category were truly inspiring under different domains. All the winning women have created their mark in specialized area’s and are the inspiration for many women going forward. The jury and the India ITME Society seeing the caliber of these women and their dedication declared special categories to award these talented women who have overcome the odds of society and reached new heights. The special women awarded are as follows:
i) Women Entrepreneur – Under this Category, Ms. Deepa A. Kumar is accorded the award.
Ms. Deepa Kumar is the Founder & CEO of Yashram Lifestyle Brands. Her product’s regular & technical innerwear like period panties, incontinence innerwear for the elderly, leak proof nursing bras for breastfeeding moms, maternity hygiene panties to prevent UTI during pregnancy & more are curated to resolve the pressing matters of the women of today. Her product is also patented in India and USA as well since 2009. She is also an active socially responsible individual engrossed in many social projects, especially her work at www.howtotellyourchild.com has been appreciated by the likes of UNESCO. Being a woman founder, she ensures that the less privileged women from our country are given a chance to earn a livelihood. So through her company’s initiatives around 40 women from a small town in Andhra Pradesh were firstly given training & later on provided employment.
ii) Nurturing Women Empowerment – Under this Category, Ms. Neha Jhunjhunwala, Director, Sarla Performance Fibers Ltd., is accorded the award.
Ms. Neha, 3rd generation in the business, began with just one objective – to upgrade the company from a successful family run company of 3 decades to an Indian MNC. From focusing on building a brand image for her organization to cater in the B2B & B2C sector she is passionate to canvass India’s brand name in performance textiles on global platforms. Neha truly believes in the power of equity and so under her leadership the company is appreciating & hiring more women at all levels. Early this year, the company hired a lady as plant head, a profile that is predominantly a male domain across the textile industry. Her actions are deserving of the title women empowerment.
iii) Woman Master Weaver – Under this Category, Ms. Santoshi Kewat is accorded the award.
Ms. Santoshi may not have been a director of multi INR companies but have managed to thrive & shine bright with her leadership qualities. Being just 8th std pass academically she had today managed to become a certified master weaver. She also took initiative of bring many other women from her village and training them the skills and creating a source of income for the other women. Her initiative has helped in the revival of the traditional handloom art form. She is also a Director of the SHG Group and a master weaver of Maheshwari Creations which is a specialized handloom saree, dupatta & bedsheet enterprise.
iv) Restoring Traditional Skills – Under this Category, Ms. Kumari Raita is accorded the award.
Ms. Kumari Raita was not society-privileged economically or educationally but today is contributing towards reviving traditional textiles & inspiration for women to become self-dependent and create a name of their own. She belongs to a Particular Vulnerable Tribal Group (PVTG) belonging to the Soura Community in the Gajapati district of Odisha State. She has learned carpet making in a limited period and has created an example for other girls from her society. The traditional hand-weaved carpet which was a dying Tibetan art form that will now be kept alive, especially among the Soura PVTG’s credits to her efforts and hard work.
- Category 4 – Research Excellence
Under this Category, Dr. Rekha Ramakrishnan from SASMIRA, is accorded the award.
The nominations for this category amazed the jury members. The research result, future impact, practical application, cost effectiveness, were the main criteria for selecting the winner. Depth of research was also thoroughly examined. The relevance of research conducted by the institutes was truly commended by the jury members. The jury members quoted: “The young R&D wing of India is in a great shape”. The winner of this category was “Dr. Rekha Ramakrishnan, from SASMIRA Institute for her research topic – Supercritical Carbon- dioxide based waterless Pre-treatment Technology for Cotton. The topic being innovative, sustainable solution and leading to saving of water utility raked higher above the other categories.
- Category 5 – Textile Maestro
Under this Category, Mr. S P Oswal, Chairman & Managing Director, Vardhman Group of Companies, is accorded the award.
There will not be a single person in the industry unfamiliar with the marvelous work done by the maestro. The word Maestro perfectly sync’s with the legend. Being honored with the most prestigious award Padma Bhushan by the government of India in 2010 for his services to the fields of trade and industry, Enlisted among India’s Best CEOs (2017), Udyog Ratna by Ph.D. Chamber of Commerce & Industries in 2005 and Lakshya Business Visionary Award by the National Institute of Industrial Engineering in 2019, the India ITME Society being an active driver for the society would like to humbly recognize the stalwart with a small token of our appreciation. He is a true industrialist for our textile industry. A gold medalist from his university, he has provided guidance and vision that has seen the empire of textiles rise in India. It was his contribution that has strengthen the spinning industry of India. He is also regarded as the force behind the establishment of the Ludhiana Stock Exchange in 1983. Apart from leading the Vardhman Group into a position of prominence in the Indian business milieu, his tremendous dedication to social initiatives has helped in the upliftment of society. Village adoption programs in the State of Punjab, Sri Aurobindo College of Commerce and Management are a few of his social programs that have levitated the society economically and developed skilled knowledgeable youths for generations.
The awards will be presented on 10th December 2022 at India Exposition Mart at the highly prestigious CEO Conclave – “Empowering Textiles through Technology”. CEO Conclave is an interactive closed-loop forum conceptualized to bring together high-level decision-makers from Government & eminent industry leaders from India and key stake holders from across the globe. The conclave will have representation from Overseas Delegates, Government Officials, and CEO & Managing Directors of top-notch Indian & International Textile & Textile Machinery companies.
India ITME Society in order to create deserved recognition of the achievements for all its winners will be presenting the awards in the presence of the very best from all the stake holders of the textile industry. In order to give due credits to the winner, the society will be presenting them with a token of appreciation in the form of a trophy and certificate along with Cash price to appreciate the efforts of the awardee’s work.
“Every edition of India ITME Society awards will try to do justice and grow bigger, better & bolder by introducing strategic categories and reaching a wider audience. The credit for the growth of the awards goes to none other than the fellow participants themselves. It is their dedication and hard work that add value to the award categories. We are grateful for all the applications received which were exceptional in their domain. We also thank every applicant for their belief in the society and urge all the other fellow companies to participate in the next edition and help us build a bigger and bolder award ceremony during the next editions.
Sincere appreciation goes to the elite jury panel who took time out of their busy schedule to help us ensure smooth and unbiased decision making”.
India ITME Society through this prestigious awards has again remained true to its industry label of being a torch bearer for the engineering sector in textiles. Today once again when our industry is coming back on track post the unseen pandemic effects, society is making the much-needed effort to recognize the vastly evolving textile engineering sector, the innovative researcher & the women power of 2022. Visit India ITME 2022 from 8th – 13th December 2022 at India Exposition Mart Limited, Greater Noida, U.P.