Coimbatore – The Manchester of South India
Coimbatore has been a major textile industry hub in South India right from 1930s. The textile industry in Coimbatore has flourished phenomenally since then and being well known as the Manchester of South India, it is now a leading textile industry center in India. The entrepreneurs of Coimbatore made the headway to Coimbatore becoming an industrial hub and presently there are more than 30000 small, medium and large scale industries in Coimbatore.
Besides being a conglomeration of thousands of textile units, Coimbatore also hosts textile research institutes like Central Institute for Cotton Research (CICR) – Southern Regional station, The South Indian Textile Research Association (SITRA) and Sardar Vallabhai Patel International School of Textiles and Management. Tirupur, the neighboring town of Coimbatore is the largest hosiery industries center in Asia and export of hosiery garments worth Rs. 50,000 million are made from Tirupur in a year.
Coimbatore is the second biggest city in Tamil Nadu and one among the major textile and engineering centres in South India. It is located 500 km west of Chennai, on the banks of Noyyal River. Coimbatore is also the house for many educational institutions, health-care industries and two IT SEZs. The textile industry in Coimbatore consists of spinning mills, knitwear, garments and hosieries. KG Denim Ltd, which is the largest manufacturer of Denim fabrics, is located at the outskirts of Coimbatore. Handloom clothes from Coimbatore are also very famous.
The extensive cultivation of cotton in Coimbatore has earned the name ‘Cotton City’ for Coimbatore. The climate, rich black and red soil etc made cotton cultivation in Coimbatore a big success. Commissioning of the Hydro electric Project at Pykara Falls was an additional boon to the booming cotton industry in Coimbatore. The 1960s and 1970s witnessed a tremendous growth of textile industry in Coimbatore. Tirupur, which is known as ‘Knit City’ is the leading garment producing and exporting center in India. Textile industry related seminars, Knitwear Expo, Textile Machinery Expo, Fashion Shows etc are regular events in Coimbatore as swell as Tirupur.
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