Abnormal rise in price of cotton yarn hits the textile industry in Karur

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The terms  of fabric  yarn has gone up   by astir  40% successful  the past  fewer  weeks, dealing a assemblage  stroke  to textile manufacturers successful  Karur.

The terms of fabric yarn has gone up by astir 40% successful the past fewer weeks, dealing a assemblage stroke to textile manufacturers successful Karur. | Photo Credit: S. SIVA SARAVANAN

Sharp emergence successful the terms of fabric yarn and the cascading effect connected assorted earthy materials successful the aftermath of geopolitical hostility successful West Asia has deed the textile manufacture successful Karur hard.

According to manufacture sources, the textile manufacturers successful Karur root fabric yarn from the mills successful Coimbatore, Dindigul, Virudhunagar, and Vellakoil. There is simply a beardown mismatch betwixt request and proviso of thicker yarn for the past six weeks, triggering sharp increase successful prices by 30% to 40%. One kg of yarn with precocious counts is quoted astatine ₹400, up from ₹300. Textile manufacturers and exporters view that the terms emergence is highly abnormal.

Though the Centre, acting on the request of the textile industry, has removed the import work connected fabric yarn, the players successful Karur said the sops had helped the garment manufacturers successful Tiruppur to an extent. The terms of yarn utilized by the garment manufacturing units had travel down to 3% to 4%. However, determination was nary alteration successful the terms of thicker yarn utilized by the textile manufacturers successful Karur.

“We bash not recognize the crushed down the summation successful terms of fabric yarn. Stable terms of yarn, which is simply a cardinal earthy worldly successful textile manufacturing, is indispensable for the creaseless sailing of the industry. The existent summation successful fabric yarn terms is unprecedented. It has deed america precise hard,” says P. Gopalakrishnan, president, Karur Textile Manufacturers and Exporters Association.

He said the contented had been taken to the announcement of the Centre and State governments by the Southern India Mills Association and Tamil Nadu Spinning Mills Association seeking their involution to stabilise the yarn prices.

The players successful Karur added that the geopolitical tensions betwixt the U.S. and Iran had severely affected planetary commercialized and planetary shipping. As a result, the prices of galore indispensable materials required for textile manufacturing — including petroleum-based products specified arsenic polyester, chemicals utilized successful dyeing industries, polythene, and packing materials — had witnessed abrupt and steep increase. It has added to the woes of the textile manufacturers.

Another exporter said that if this concern continued, it could severely impact the operations of the Karur textile manufacture and make a large antagonistic interaction connected export maturation and employment opportunities.

Published - June 06, 2026 04:36 p.m. IST

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