ITAMMA Accepts New Normal Digitalized World to overcome COVID

Mrs Hansaben Mehta, Director, B. Mehta Engg. Co. P. Ltd. & President, NASEOH due to ill health couldn’t attend the inaugural function and deputed Mr M D Vora, also Past President and Trustee of ITAMMA to launch the “B. K. Mehta Modern Virtual Library,” Mr M. D. Vora read out the speech of Mrs Hansaben Mehta as below

“Respected Chief Guest Mr. Bhadresh Dodhia, Head – International Sales & Finance, Dodhia Group and Vice Chairman, SRTEPC, Special Guest Mr. Ajit Patil, IAS, Jt. CEO, MIDC and my friends. I am glad to state that this “VAASTU” premises is having the spiritual and historical importance which has recorded many milestones in past and has also given us an opportunity to hear from the stalwarts of the industry from this dais…. Yes, I do agree and have experienced such moments….

Today I am proud to see that ITAMMA has accepted the new normal very successfully after the pandemic. In this regard I wish to share with you a very important incidence taken place few months ago at ITAMMA. It was January 2021 when I came to know from Mr. Mhatre about the collapsing of our Conference Room due to the attack of heavy rains and cyclonic storms. He shared his thoughts of redevelopment of the same with Modern Virtual Library for the students. I was impressed by his idea and came forward to support ITAMMA to bring this proposal in actual operation. Today after attending the inauguration of B K Mehta Modern Virtual Library, I am totally convinced and confident that this infrastructure will be definitely helping Indian Textile Engineering Industry to develop their technological set-up and bringing on the surface the talent and the low-cost technologies available with the students. And also happy to see that ITAMMA has converted the challenge into opportunity further strengthening ITAMMA with a Digital infrastructure.

I thank all the Office Bearers, Management and the Directorate of ITAMMA for their efforts in growing the Association to the next level.

I congratulate to all Award winners and those who will be felicitated today for their yeoman services to ITAMMA.

I send my apology for not able to attend this important function in person due to my ill health, but my good wishes are always to ITAMMA and its team for taking it to greater heights.

Thank You !!”

Mr.     Dhijen    Mehta, President,    ITAMMA delivers Welcome Speech

In the opening remarks Mr N D Mhatre, Director General (Tech) informed that “B. K. Mehta Modern Virtual Library” will CONNECT the Students with a SMART DATA in regard with their requirements of content for technical presentations, article/paper writing, Job search/placement, etc. and further assisting them in connecting with the Industry Experts/Industrialists /Government facilities, etc. This DATA will be provided to the Student in a PEN DRIVE on complimentary basis under “B K Mehta Endowment Fund.”

Mr Mhatre further informed that “B. K. Mehta Technology Networking Mission” will give an opportunity to Students from different Textile Institutes to interact in physical meeting with the Textile Technologists and Experts who are well connected with the Textile Industry and are specialized in Metallurgy, Automation, Mechanisms, Heat Treatment, Surface Finishing, Systems, Oil, Engineering, Lubricant, Lean, Technologists, Company Turnaround, 3D modeling, Mechatronics, Reverse Engineering, Six Sigma, Theory of Constraints, etc. Also there will be live and Virtual interaction of Experts, Students, Industrialists and Government bodies on Technology networking and exploring opportunities for finalizing joint projects further leading to Atma Nirbhar Bharat. This initiative will provide opportunities to Students for placement as per their field of interest and Industrialists for the selecting appropriate man-power as per their requirement. Thus helping Indian Textile Engineering Industry to develop their technological set-up and bringing on the surface the talent and the low-cost technologies available with the students.

Mr Mhatre also informed that “B. K. Mehta Memorial Lecture Series” is being organized in the form of Technical Webinars on 3rd Wednesday of every month, whereby handouts per subject, prior to the webinar are distributed. This series will help as a refresher course covering important topics of LEAN Journey step wise and will strengthen Technical, Technological and Techno-commercial aspects of the Entrepreneur, their factory man-power, vendors and Society around. All the presentations of the Guest Speakers during these webinars will be made available on the You Tube with a provision of the access link.

Mr. Dhijen    Mehta, President,    ITAMMA delivers Welcome Speech

The event started by lighting the lamp in a very traditional way followed by a prayer which was followed by a welcome speech by Mr. Dhijen Mehta, President, ITAMMA who said that “ today COVID-19 has demanded a change in the existing geopolitical system, calling for restructuring of all the arrangements of trade and barter agreements, MoUs, rules and regulations, policies, planning, legal laws, etc. thus conveying the message that ‘World is flat.’ We have also experienced that Sanitization, Social distancing and Digitalization has become the buss words in this era of Social Revolution. Knowing the importance of the same we appreciate the initiatives of Mrs. Hansaben coming forward for the development of Modern Virtual Library and funding the Special Award “ITAMMA –Corona Warrior Award-2020” as a salute and recognition to ITAMMA Members who have contributed by the development of new machines /systems which have been useful and outstanding to lay man to fight against COVID-19. We will be able to see the ITAMMA Member bagging this Award during the Award function. “

Thereafter ITAMMA Voice, issue no. 11 based on topic “Covid Born to Acceptance of New Normal Digitalized World” was released by Chief Guest.

Appreciation of members for their Yeomen services to the Association

Shri Madhusudan D. Vora was elected as the 40th President of the Association in the year 2000-2001 was felicitated with Life-time Service Award.

Mr S G Vaidya – was elected as the 47th President of the Association in the year 2007-2008 was felicitated with Special Appreciation Award.

Mr Sudhir Dani, was elected as the 44th President of the Association in the year 2004-2005 was felicitated with Special Appreciation Award.

Mr Kirti Rathod was elected as the 42nd President of the Association in the year 2002-2003 was felicitated with Special Appreciation Award.

 MoU signing Ceremony ITAMMA signed MoUs

• Tata Business   Hub     Limited – the platform will serve ITAMMA member companies in achieving 3 key objectives – Grow Business, Solve Challenges and Optimize Business

• Alliance Insurance Brokers Ltd – will provide one-stop solutions on all Insurance and Risk Management services whereby managing entire gamut insurance for businesses like Manufacturing, services, power, infrastructure etc. but have also build proficiency in new age products like Cyber Insurance, Liability and Business Interruption.

• YES BANK Ltd – members will be benefitted by the Bank’s lending schemes to MSME units, need-based credit and interest rate facilities to the good rated MSME units

Thereafter the Award function started where the following ITAMMA members bagged the Awards in respective categories.

Felicitation of Jury

• Ms Sanghamitra B Jayant, Manager – Corporate Strategy Management, BHEL
• Thomson Joseph, CEO, Truetzschler India Private Limited
• Gopakumar G Nair, Registered Patent & Trademark Attorney
• Suranjana Gangopadhyay, Professor and Head of Textile Manufacturers Department, Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute (VJTI),
• Kaushik Shah, CA, of K K Shah and Associates,

The function was further taken forward with a programme of ‘Farewell Dinner” to Mr Jugal Kishore Pansari, President (2019-20) and Mr Chandresh Shah, President (2020-21).

Mr Jugal Kishore Pansari said “ INNOVATION’ sustains you in your Business- this phrase was well experienced during my tenure in the years 2019 & 2020. The adventure began with a kick start from ITMA’2019 at Barcelona, and concluded with the Seminar on “Zero –Harm Culture in Manufacturing”.

While Mr Chandresh Shah said “As we are aware that the year 2020 was one of the most difficult and challenging time for everyone due to Covid 19 pandemic, however still we were able to execute our activities at ITAMMA by changing our guard from offline to on-line events with a slogan of ‘Show must go on.’ However it was only possible due to the sincere and obedient efforts and hardships put by my colleagues and staff members of ITAMMA.”

Chief Guest, Mr. Bhadresh Dodhia, Head – International Sales & Finance, Dodhia Groupdelivered the Chief Guest Speech as below:

Respected Shri Dhijen Mehta, President, ITAMMA, Shri Purvik Panchal, Vice-President, ITAMMA Special GuestShri Ajit Patil, IAS, Jt. CEO, MIDC., Former Presidents, ITAMMA, Industry stalwarts, Media, Ladies & Gentlemen

It is indeed a pleasure for me to have the opportunity to address this august gathering as the Chief Guest in ITAMMA which is the Oldest (established in 1943) and largest (about 400+ members) Association of Textile Engineering Industry.

As I understand, ITAMMA has been taking several landmark initiatives for the benefit of its members and Textile Machinery manufacturing sectoras a whole.Launching of the B. K. Mehta Modern Virtual Library today in this covid pandemic times, is another milestone initiative taken by the Association for its member’s benefit.

I am sure, this is the best honour we could give to B. K. Mehta ji who is popularly known as Balbhai. Friends, Textile Machineries and accessories are part and parcel of the textile industry. Textile manufacturing itself is a global industry that has been a part of human civilization.

Textile manufacturing was a catalyst for the Industrial Revolution in America that sparked in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It called for an economy that caused the movement of people from the rural areas to urban centres, to leave their agricultural jobs in exchange for works in the manufacturing segment.

Technology has also been an inevitable part of the entire evolution in the textiles manufacturing sector. All the processes and conversions involved in Textile manufacturing such as fibre production, yarn production, fabric production, processing, pre and post treatment of fabrics, dying and printing, finishing and so on, have been possible with applications of different textile technology and R & D for manufacturing suitable machinery.

From different types of raw-materials, textiles are manufactured by polymerising, matting, condensing, pressing fibres together or spun fibres made into yarn and subsequently netted, looped, knit, or woven to make fabrics. The very quality, applicability, etc. of textiles also depend a lot on technology and machinery.

In India also we have seen lots of evolution in the textiles sector. However, in the textile machinery manufacturing segment we have enormous room to further grow.

Currently, global production of textile machinery annually is worth around US$30 billion. Some of the biggest manufacturers of textile machinery include Italy, Germany, Switzerland, and France.

India has tremendous growth opportunity and prospect in textile machinery manufacturingas the Indian textile industry has been fast expanding and government is very keen to develop the textile industry,it being the leading employment providing manufacturing segment and having major share in export earnings for the country.

Besides, the Technological Upgradation Fund Scheme (TUFS), the recently launched Government initiatives namely the Production Link Incentive (PLI) Scheme and PM Mitra Scheme are going to create further demand pressure on the textile machinery sector. The domestic textile machinery manufacturers including the members of ITAMMA need to grab the emerging opportunities.

For your kind information, I wouldlike to mention that from the SRTEPC we have also taken up with the Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Commerce and Industry and Ministry of Textiles to rectify the existing GST anomalies in the textile machinery manufacturing sector, to help and encourage more investment in this segment.

As both the textiles and textile machinerysectors are interlinked, interdependent and complementing to each other, there is a strong positive corelation between the two in their respective growth and prosperity. From this front, Association of both SRTEPC and ITAMMA is crucial and important, as our combined development will not only create win-win-situation to both but will enable India to become a leading global player in Textile sector.

Last but not the least, I appeal to the textile machinery manufacturing fraternity to focus more on R & D and innovation as there is huge demand and untapped opportunity lying in India and world-wide.

I would also like to congratulate all the ITAMMA Award winners who have made excellent contribution to textile machinery manufacturing during 2019-20. I wish you all the best.

Jai Hind!

************Mr Purvik Panchal, Vice-President, ITAMMA, delivered Vote of Thanks, thanking Mrs Hansaben Mehta for adding Modern digital facilities to the infrastructure of ITAMMA and making this event as the milestone and historical event for ITAMMA. He also thanked M/s Alliance Insurance Brokers Pvt. Ltd., YES Bank Limited and M/s Supertex Industries, Mumbai for extending sponsorship for this event.