The co-founder and managing director of one of India’s biggest integrated textile enterprises is to address international industry leaders at September’s ITMA-ITMF World Textile Summit, in Barcelona, Spain.Dilip B. Jiwrajki has been responsible for steering Alok Industries Limited through a quarter of a century of astonishing 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 the new business order.
With immediate family members, he incorporated Alok Industries in 1986, setting up its first polyester texturising plant three years later. Now with a turnover of around €700 million, the business has expanded downstream into weaving, knitting, processing, home textiles, garments and retail, and upstream into cotton spinning and the manufacture of partially oriented yarn through continuous polymerisation. Nearly half its production is exported.
Mr Jiwrajka will join a powerful speaker panel that will include Du Yuzhou, president of China National Textile & Apparel Council (CNTAC), Loek de Vries, president and CEO of the technical textile leader TenCate, and Thomas Babacan, CEO of the world’s biggest textile machinery manufacturer, Oerlikon Textile, and COO of the OC Oerlikon Group.
Former United Nations secretary-general and Nobel Peace Prize winner Kofi Annan – now an international advocate for sustainable business practice – will be a keynote speaker at the Summit, which will take place on September 21 at the Palau de Congressos de Catalunya in Barcelona, one day ahead of the opening of the ITMA 2011 textile-machinery show in the same city.
