Automotive Textiles Trends in India

By D.Pulikeshi Associate Vice President (Strategic Planning) Technical Textiles Business SRF Limited

19 Mar 2010 ASSOCHAM

Technical Textile Value chain

Polymerization (Chip)

Fiber/ yarn

Fabric

Fabric processing

Fabrication

Opportunity for all to be any part of value chain !

Automotive Textiles Share in Technical Textiles : 2008

Automotive textile High volume and High value item of the Technical Textiles India Market Size
Segment TCF Seat belt Airbag Upholstery Roof liner/carpet Total Market Rs Cr 2000 11 12 870 290 3160

Value : $110 billion

Automotive textile
Automotive textile products
Seat Upholstery Door trims Carpet Luggage carpet Roof liner Seat belt Tarpaulin

Tyrecord Single cord (transmission belt, hose) Airbag

Automotive textile how this segment is different from other segments of Technical textiles ?

Around 12 kg of fiber used in each Passenger Car

GNI(PPP basis) Vs Automotive textile consumption

22 22 22 22

Automotive textile consumption per capita(grams)

22 22 22 22 22 22 22 22 22 22 22 u 22

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22 22

France
22 22

55 55

USA

Japan

5 5 Germany 55

UK5 5 55
22 22

Italy

22 22 22 2 22 2 22 2 2 22 2

Brazil
55 5

India 2 2
2

China
22 22 222 22 222 22 222 22 222 22 222 22 222 22 222 22

GNI(PPP basis) per capita US $

Number of cars per 1000 people

Developed countries
WE USA Japan : 572 : 789 : 515

Developing countries
Brazil China India : 149 : : 42 12

SRF- Technical Textile Business

Tyre cord Fabrics

Belting Fabrics

Coated Fabrics

Industrial Yarns

Global No 2 in PA6 Tyrecord & Global No5 in Textile tyre reinforcements Global No 2 in Conveyor Belting Fabrics Indian leader in PVC coated fabrics Only HMLS and High tenacity, Low Shrinkage Polyester yarn producer in India Winner of Deming Application prize for practice of Total quality mangement only tyrecord producer outside Japan to receive this

Thank You!