Domestic technical textiles Industry Segment-wise consumption of ...

Printed labels are often printed on materials such as satin, acetate, polyester, nylon and cotton twill.
Woven labels are manufactured on Air-Jet Weaving Looms and Rapier Weaving Looms. For
polyester labels the warp yarn is supplied by international players like Global Pacific whereas weft
yarn is supplied by various domestic players like Reliance, JK Textile, Valson, Welspun, Tirupati, etc.
Key machinery suppliers for manufacturing flex in India
The machines used for manufacturing Woven labels are:
• Flexible Rapier Weaving Machines equipped with electronic jacquard
• Needle Looms
• Warping machines
• MuCAD designing systems.
• Ultrasonic slitting machine.
• Cutfold machines
• Laser cutting machine
• Label finishing machine
• Label stuffing devices
The main suppliers of these machines are
• Jakob-Mueller (Switzerland)
• Kong River (Hong Kong)
• Willy (Italy)
• Viable (USA)
• AG Frick
Printed labels are made using the screen printing or offset printing technology. Machines used for
Printed labels are:
• Flexo Fabric Printing Machines
• Letter Press Machines
• Sonic Cutting Machines
• Cold Cut Machines
• Hot Cut Machines
Quality Control and Standards
Quality standards for labels depend on specific buyer requirements since different buyers have their
own standards related to product, environment, social etc. However, wash fastness test and