FCCI Vice President, Engineer Ahmad Hassan, former president, Ch Muhammad Nawaz, Chairman Ch Zahid Rashid, ex-chairman, Haji Talib Hussain and Mian Ajmal, Secretary, All Pakistan Sizing Association visited the Weaving Department of National Textile University to discuss utilization of newly developed lab scale sizing machine by NTU for the benefit of the industry. Ch Muhammad Nawaz thanked Pakistan Science Foundation for funding the project and NTU for development of this machine which is very important and need of the industry.
Dr Yasir Nawab (Principal Investigator) and Muhammad Ayub Asghar (Co-Principle Investigator) briefed the delegation about the features of newly developed machine. The machine consumes 20-30% less energy due to innovative heating/drying system. It also offers economical trial run for standardization of sizing recipe and optimization of cost.
NTU team and delegation from industry agreed that NTU team will visit three (top, average, and low-level) sizing industries proposed by Sizing Association and advise them changes for energy saving in the existing setups. Furthermore, NTU will examine the existing sizing recipes and standardize them using newly developed sizing machine so that cost and quality of sizing may be improved. Focal Person Muzammal Hussain & NTU team thanked Ahmad Hassan (FCCI) for his efforts to strengthen academia-industry collaboration.
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