Week of 25–31 October 2026
This week in Tirupur’s trades
The opening week of this record, in a quiet pre-Deepavali week for Tirupur. The Centre opened its textile PLI scheme to firms half the size it asked for before — a change that bears on Tirupur's plan to shift towards man-made fibre — and cotton yarn prices in Tirupur eased a little as cotton fell. Two earlier items are included with their dates for the record: the strike by the city's dyeing units over dye and chemical prices, and the exporters' association's annual meeting, where the cluster's record year and its next steps were set out.
Textile PLI scheme opened to smaller firms — ent…Cotton yarn prices in Tirupur ease by ₹3–5 a kil…Tirupur's dyeing units stop work over dye and ch…Tiruppur Exporters' Association: a record ₹46,00…
Policy28 Oct 2026
Textile PLI scheme opened to smaller firms — entry turnover halved to ₹100 crore, as Tirupur prepares to move into man-made fibre
The Ministry of Textiles revised the guidelines of its production-linked incentive scheme for man-made fibre (MMF) products and technical textiles through a gazette notification dated 28 October. Under Part-II of the scheme, the minimum investment comes down from ₹100 crore to ₹50 crore and the minimum turnover from ₹200 crore to ₹100 crore, and the scheme now runs until FY 2033-34. FY 2026-27 and FY 2027-28 are gestation years, the performance years are FY 2028-29 to FY 2032-33, and the incentive on notified sales starts at 11 per cent and falls by one point a year to 7 per cent; the condition of at least 10 per cent additional growth in turnover stays. The change comes as Tirupur's exporters say they want the cluster's product mix to move gradually towards half cotton and half man-made fibre: the Tiruppur Exporters' Association's president, K.M. Subramanian, urged members in September to move into MMF, technical textiles and performance wear.
Why it matters: Tirupur is built on cotton knitwear, and most of its units are small. Man-made fibre and performance wear are where world demand is growing, and a lower entry bar means more of Tirupur's larger exporters can now consider the scheme for new MMF capacity.
Yarn27 Oct 2026
Cotton yarn prices in Tirupur ease by ₹3–5 a kilo as cotton falls
Combed cotton yarn in Tirupur came down by ₹3–5 a kilo in the week to 27 October, following lower cotton prices in India and on the ICE futures market, Fibre2Fashion reported in its weekly South India yarn report. A Tirupur trader told the publication that demand for cotton yarn was average and the spinning mills were reasonably comfortable, but that payments were tight, as is usual just before Deepavali. In Mumbai some varieties went the other way, rising ₹2–4 a kilo on limited supply.
Why it matters: Yarn is the largest single cost for Tirupur's knitting and garment units. A small fall in combed yarn just as winter and Christmas orders are being made up helps the margins of exporters who priced their orders earlier.
Dyeing7 Oct 2026
Tirupur's dyeing units stop work over dye and chemical prices that have more than doubled
About 460 dyeing units in Tirupur halted work in early October in protest against a rise of more than 100 per cent in the prices of dyes and chemicals and a shortage of some of them. The Dyers Association of Tirupur linked the shortage partly to exports of the raw materials used to make dyes, and asked the state and central governments to restrict those exports so that Indian processors are supplied first. Processing units in SIPCOT Perundurai and in Erode and Namakkal districts backed the strike, and 18 common effluent treatment plants and private plants in Tirupur were also shut. Tirupur's dyeing units process about 2,800 tonnes of fabric a day and employ more than 50,000 people; the loss of production was put at about ₹16.8 crore.
Why it matters: Every Tirupur garment passes through a dyehouse, and the city's dyeing has to run through treatment plants under zero-liquid-discharge rules. When dyes and chemicals double in price, the cost reaches every exporter's order.
Exporters23 Sep 2026
Tiruppur Exporters' Association: a record ₹46,000 crore year, and a push into man-made fibre, technical textiles and new markets
At its 36th annual general meeting in Tirupur on 23 September, the Tiruppur Exporters' Association (TEA) reported that the cluster's knitwear exports had passed ₹46,000 crore in 2025-26, a record, and that Tirupur's share of India's knitwear exports was about 55 per cent. General secretary N. Thirukkumaran said 19,050 young people — 95 per cent of them women — had been trained under the SAMARTH scheme, and that a minimum-wage settlement for 2026–2030 had been concluded. President K.M. Subramanian urged members to move into man-made fibre, technical textiles and performance wear, to use the India–UK and India–EU trade agreements to reach new markets, and to invest in automation, ERP and AI over the next five years. Twenty-four exporters received awards for export growth, ESG, women entrepreneurs and first-generation entrepreneurs.
Why it matters: TEA's figures are the main record of how the Tirupur cluster is doing, and the direction its president set out — MMF, performance wear, new markets — is the background for most of the news that follows from the city.
Earlier weeks
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