Related Keywords: acute power shortage, APTMA, ITMF, Pakistani spinning industry, shuttle-less looms, Spinning machinery import, surplus yarn
The surge in spinning machinery import witnessed in Pakistan. Although the All Pakistan Textile Mills Association claims that around 100 spinning mills in the country have closed down as the spinning industry is facing acute power and energy shortage.
But spinning industry in Pakistan has registered the highest addition of spindles in the past six years, adding 546,000 spindles during 2013, according the International Textile Machinery Federation (ITMF).
