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

chemical and chemical product industry and increasing awareness of occupational health and safety
issues.
Key manufacturers
The suppliers of CPC suits are mostly unorganized. They source the coated fabric from the dealers
and fabricate the CPC suits according to the specifications of the end users. These suppliers tend to
have related products like rain coats in their product line. Some of the larger suppliers include
Northstar Safety Products Pvt. Ltd. (Chandigarh), Intech (Kolkata), and Jyotech Engineering Co.
Pvt. Ltd (Delhi).
Tobit Engineers (Bombay) are distributors for Kimberly Clarke’s range of non woven overalls.
Market size of and future forecast
The Industry-wise factories carrying on operations declared Dangerous and workers employed in such
operations in India for the year 2002 is given in the Annexure 5. The demand of chemical protection
suits is found out using this data and extrapolated to 2007-08.
The highest number of working factories carrying on dangerous operations was reported in
‘Manufacture of Chemicals and Chemical Products’ (NIC- Code 24), cumulatively employing over
13.13 million workers involved in dangerous operations. As per Industry research, the demand from
this industry accounts for 65% of the total demand. While most of the process based industries
typically require only gloves, boots and goggles (due to automated nature of their manufacturing),
certain operations in these industries require entire work-wear to be protective.
The total market for chemical protection suits is given below:
Product
Durable Chemical
protection suits
Quantity
(number
of pieces)
Market size
2007-08 2012-13
Fabric
Fabric
requirement Value Quantity requirement
(Million (Rs (Number (Million
Linear M) Crore) of pieces) Linear M)
Value
(Rs
Crore)
78,000 0.3 10.87 1,14,000 0.4 20
Source: Industry survey, IMaCS Analysis
Note: Based on discussions with Chemical Industry experts, and comparing data on workforce
employed in hazardous activities, a penetration of 0.1% is assumed in the Chemical Industry
workforce. The demand volume in 2007-08 is found out by assuming a CAGR of 8% over base year
2000. The average life of a CPC suit is assumed to be 1 year. Based on Industry survey, we have
assumed average price of a suit at Rs 1400 currently and consumption of 4 running metres of fabric
per suit in order to derive the Market value and fabric requirement.