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Leicestershire county officials have teamed up with counterparts in Manchester making all efforts to obtain Government cash worth up to £19 million to help rejuvenate the industry by acquiring new hi-tech machinery, which would allow textile manufacturers to relocate production from China, the Indian subcontinent and North Africa.

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The 13th edition of the Knit-Tech, a knitting technology trade fair organised by Hi-tech International Trade Fair and approved by the India Trade Promotion Organisation concluded yesterday on February 9.

More than 200 companies from India and abroad were exhibiting state-of-the-art machinery related to the knitwear production which include circular knitting machines, dyeing and finishing machines, knit printing appliances, computerised flat knitting machines, yarn conditioning machines, sewing machines and fabric dyeing machines, among others.