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Delhi NCR: Increase in textile dyes could affect global fashion brands

Published
Jun 19, 2018

The textile dyeing industry in the Delhi NCR region is currently considering scaling down operations due to a large increase in the price of fabric dye and this could affect many of the global fast fashion brands that source textiles from the area.

The textile dyeing industry in the Delhi NCR region is currently considering scaling down operations - F2F


Due to a shortage of raw material imports used to make textile dyes from China, the price of textile dyes has risen.

"The price of dyes has increased by nearly 30 per cent over the last 10-15 days and it is not sustainable to carry on operations at the same rates," Vijay Jain, the Managing Director of SPS Processors in Faridabad told the Times of India.

However, if operations are not sustained at the current rate, the high number of orders for the future Spring 2019 season may not be able to be fulfilled. A number of global fast fashion brands source a percentage of their textiles from factories in the Delhi NCR region including Zara, H&M, Marks & Spencer, and Gap and so these brands could be affected.

There are around 150 fabric dyeing factories in the Delhi NCR region and they have also experienced a hard time recently following the government’s ban on pet coke and furnace oil which are both used in the dyeing process.

Some factories have already shut down due to this ban. The ban was implemented for environmental reasons and, although positive for this reason, means that the dyeing industry is taking a hit.

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