India ITME Society opens nominations for ITME Society Awards 2022

India ITME Society Awards 2022 is scheduled to be presented on December 8, 2022 at India Exposition Mart, Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh. These awards will set the tone for the start of the biggest textile engineering show which will have the presence of international and national delegates representing ambassadors, council members, various ministries, state ministers, textile & state commissioners and global investors. The textile entrepreneurs and emerging textile investors will all be a part of this event. The winners will be felicitated with cash award, trophy and certificate in the format best suitable to the category. With the wide network of the India ITME Society, the recognition of the awards will not just be limited to the delegate present at the award function but will also be circulated to the wide database and the entire press ministry associated with the India ITME Society. The booklet copies will be presented to all the international and national delegates in current as well as all subsequent events India ITME Society is an active part of, the organiser said in a press release.

These awards are society’s humble attempt to recognise the exceptional and significant contributions that have influenced positive change in the textile engineering sector of the nation. This 2nd edition of awards looks to recognise and felicitate awards in the following new categories: Category 1 - Award for Overall Best Performer in Engineering Industry presented in 8 Specific categories (Ginning | Spinning| Weaving & weaving preparatory |Processing & Finishing | Garmenting | Printing | Accessories for Textiles | Technical Textiles), Category 2 - Award for Best Innovative Technology for Pollution Control, Category 3 - Women Leadership Award in Textile & Textile Engineering, Category 4 - Award for Research Excellence and Category 5 – Textile Mastero.

“The society & self strongly believes that the young minds of today are the colourful future of our textiles, this is why in addition to the dedicated award category for our innovators in 2022 edition, we have always introduced knowledge programs for the learners. Our society over the years is initiating several constructive programs to recognise & empower knowledge to innovative researchers, and technical faculties as well as to act as an active connect between the knowledge hub-technical institutes & the ever-changing industry. I am sure, the success story of innovators recognized in our awards will attract more youths towards R&D in textiles,” said S Hari Shankar, chairman, India ITME Society.

To ensure fair practice and true unbiased nature towards the awards selection, the society has brought on board reputed textile technocrats from different sectors of textile. All the nominations will be checked and verified for their eligibility by the coordinator for this event -SUVIN, a company led by Avinash Mayekar.

The scrutinised nominations will then be put forth to the panel jury on their final meet. The jury will meet on September 30. The jury panel includes Uday Gill, chief executive officer, Fibers, Indorama Ventures Ltd; Updeep Singh, president & CEO, Sutlej Textiles and Industries Ltd; Manohar Samuel, Advisor R&D, Reliance Industries Limited; Gurudas V Aras, India consultant to the ITA group, Germany and APS GmbH; Sanjay Jayavarthanavelu, chairman & managing director at Lakshmi Machine Works Ltd & a past chairman of India ITME Society; R Anand, partner, Eastern Engineering Company; Sanjiv Lathia, past chairman of India ITME Society & a well-known entrepreneur; Dr Manisha Mathur, director, SASMIRA and Ketan Sanghvi, treasurer of India ITME Society; S Hari Shankar, chairman of India ITME Society.

India ITME Society by introducing the 2^nd edition of awards has again remained true to its industry label of being a torch bearer for the engineering sector in textiles. 

Fibre2Fashion News Desk (RR)