News / Apparel buyers revive alternatives in India amid Bangladesh struggles

Credit: TIrupur Exporters Association

India’s textile/apparel export hub of Tirupur, near Chennai, in Tamil Nadu state, is bouncing back from the days of frequent production cuts and disruption caused by a dearth of orders. 

According to industry sources in Tirupur, a manufacturing belt also known as the ‘knitwear capital of India’, most ‘closed’ textile units in the region have reopened, with new orders arriving from global buyers increasingly searching for alternatives to Bangladesh suppliers struggling to keep their supply chains running. 

KM Subramanian, president of the ...