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AKR to build cut-and-sew semi-automatic manufacturing unit in Massachusetts

Tirupur-based company AKR is currently working with local government in Fall River, Massachusetts in partnership with manufacturer Good Clothing Company, to build a state-of-the-art cut-and-sew semi-automatic manufacturing plant. The facility, which will allow US companies to produce in the country, will source textiles from India in the first phase of its project; but its goal is to eventually make fabrics in US by using zero discharge. This will require a massive investment. The company anticipates enormous growth in the North American market by 2020.

Incepted in 1994, AKR is one of the largest dyers in South Asia (dyeing 50 tons of fabric daily), and over time, has grown increasingly concerned with the toll that the textile dyeing industry was taking on the environment. The company, in 2008, 100-percent zero-discharge dyeing facility which filters wastewater through reverse osmosis. The clean water is rerouted back into the dyeing process. Remaining water is evaporated from the resulting chemical sludge and the dried chemical waste is formed into small bricks that are then sent to cement factories and other chemical factories where they are used as one of the raw materials in the finished products.

 

 
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