The Indian Textile Machinery industry, which began as an offshoot of the textile industry, is today reckoned as one of the largest sector in the country. Indian textile machinery manufacturers produce sophisticated machines of higher speeds and production capability, at competitive prices. The sector also gets significated support from the well developed IT industry.

In the earlier part of the decade the growth of textile engineering industry was hampered due to lack of automation. However, the technology for automation of textile machinery has improved immensely leading to development of indigenous machines comparable to those manufactured in industrially advanced countries. Substantial and sustained efforts to strengthen indigenous technology were made and today the major manufacturers supply moderen machines. Most of the latest technologies in automation are concentrating largely on making the new version more flexible, energy efficient and perfect through use of microprocessors and computers.

The Textile Engineering Industry (TEI) has developed over the last five decades and has played vital role in the modernization of the textile industry. Efforts to develop indigenous R&D and technical back up have been circumscribed by the dependence of indigenous textile engineering units on the foreign manufacturers to supply advanced technology. Most of the prominent textile machinery manufacturers across the globe have technical/financial collaborations with indigenous producers.

Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu is a major hub for the Textile Machinery manufacturing industry. Most of the manufacturers fall under medium and large scale category. Some of tthe key machines manufactured are:

o         Knitting and Spinning Machines

o         Textile Testing Equipments

o         Wrapping Machines