Founded in 1979, when the Indian RMG sector was in its infancy, IIGM has gone on to transform its role in the industry from a trading company to a giant technology partner. Emerging as a solution provider in all aspects of manufacturing including electrification and infrastructure, IIGM is driven with a strategic intent to serve its clients by finding the best technology and value-added service solutions that improve their work processes and business results. IIGM has continuously strived to ethically merge the world’s best technology with the most talented professionals, so as to provide paramount solutions, value-added services and applications support to industries ranging from textile to electrical systems in India.
Representing the world’s leading companies like Juki, ETON, Yamato, Gerber, Eastman, Ngai Shing, Hashima, Tonello, Wilcom, GSD and Barudan in all areas of apparel manufacturing including automated cutting, industrial sewing, finishing machines, washing and garment treatment equipment, productivity based equipment, and textile processing equipment, the group is unwaveringly leaping forward to ensure that India is the most preferred destination for Textile and Apparel sourcing in the world. Such a commendable far-sightedness is only reinforced further with IIGM being among the few aboriginal technology partners who value skilled workforce enough to contribute to the domain with a training institute of their own.
Present at the GTE-2014 held last month, IIGM had to its credit a catalogue studded with new systems from Nixtex, Setec, Metod Makina and Strobel. With the inclusion of Nixtex in its offerings to the industry, IIGM brought to the fair the future of colour matching systems, spreading and fabric inspection. Nixtex have developed C-tex RM to provide optimum handling and utilization of tension sensitive fabric that can handle up to 80 kg of roll weight. The threshold can be increased on special request. While C-tex FIM is a fabric inspection solution with data collection and analysis that can handle a wide range of rolled materials, from tension sensitive Lycra to the stable cotton. The colour matching system or C-tex Colour, the roll batcher monitors colour deviation of rolls throughout the length and at a minimum 3 points across the width and then batches together rolls with consistent colour to be ready for cutting together therefore eliminating colour mismatching in garments and other sewn goods. Further expanding the catalogue were two innovations – C-tex Colour and C-tex Master. Fundamentally, both are retrofits that augment the performance and function of any make or model of inspection by giving it measuring and analytical capabilities. Right from operator performance monitoring to improved material utilization, these
two retrofits have it all up their sleeve.
The recently launched Setec labeller is capable of marking cut parts since it is endowed with the flexible nature of the identification of cut parts. The flexibility does not end at cut part identification since Setec Labeller can be used on all standard table widths and makes.
Continuing the exciting show of innovations, Metod Makina, a leading Turkish machinery manufacturer, who specializes in Industrial Curing Ovens for Garments since 1998, displayed its range of Dye and Chemical Application Cabinets, 3D Crinkle Machines, Denim Effect Apparatus, Pressing Machines, Rodeo Machines and Automatic Chemical Application Equipment, Spray Guns and Temperature Measurement Labels.
Speaking of the stance of the industry’s growth in Indian context IIGM’s Managing Director, Pavan Kapoor said, “The Indian Garment Industry has always been challenged by the likes of China, Bangladesh, Vietnam, Indonesia, etc. We all know what the result of this challenge was! The Indian Export Graph is nowhere compared to these countries. Having said this, the Indian Apparel story is showing strong signs of revival. The basic inputs which go to make a success story are still strongly prevalent in India, compared to other apparel manufacturing countries.”
