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Departments

1. TEXTILE TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT

Staff Pattern

The Textile Technology branch was started in 1958. The branch occupies a separate machinery lab constituting an area of 13000 square feet.  The lab is divided into  five sections, viz. Yarn Manufacture lab,  Fabric Manufacture lab, Wet Processing Lab, Knitting and Garment lab and Testing lab.

 Yarn Manufacture lab:  Machines installed in this lab are Carding engine, Fly frame and Ring frame

Fabric Manufacture lab:  Lab Comprises  Cone winding machine, Pirn winding machine, Mill warping machine, Hand looms, Jacquard Hand looms, Power looms with over picking, under picking, tappet shedding, dobby shedding, automatic pirn changing loom, Drop Box loom, Jacquard card cutting machine  etc.

Wet Processing Lab: - Lab is equipped with oven, gas heating system, electric heating system, liquid heating system, dying pots, open kier, small winch dying machine, block printing equipments, screen printing equipments, screen developing system  etc

Knitting and Garment lab: - It Comprises Circular knitting machine, Flat knitting machine, Sewing machines, over lock machine, fashion maker, cutting table, cutting tool  etc..

Textile Testing lab:-  This lab is equipped with various testing instruments such as Sling Hygrometer, Electronic moisture Regain Tester, Baer sorter,  Stelometer, Fiber Fineness Tester, Projection Microscope, Knowles balance, Beesley’s balance, Lea Strength Tester, Single yarn Twist Tester, Take-up Twist Testers, ASTM boards with comparison arrangement, Black board wrapping machine, Fabric stiffness tester, Threads density tester, Wrap reel,  Wrap block etc.

Computer is also provided in the Textile lab

For extra practical sessions to the students, Textile mill visits are conducted under the Industry-Institute interaction program.  Present  Diploma curriculum consists of one month Industrial Training.  Training seminar has to be conducted  by each student with a detailed report.  Project work is compulsory to full fill the Diploma course.  From the academic year 2006-07 onwards Year wise Diploma course curriculum is converted to semester system consisting of  six semesters.  After the completion of course most of the students get employment at various Textile organizations.  Campus interviews are conducted by various firms like Garden Mills, Ambika Cottons, Precot Meridian, WFB Baird Ltd, etc..

Apart from the  Three year Diploma course, a two year Textile Certificate course is also conducted under this branch.

A short term Textile dying and printing course is conducted for the benefits of the public under Community Polytechnic  scheme.