BOMBAY TEXTILE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION (BTRA)

Btra members include not only textile units (from mill sector as well as decentralised sector) but also manufacturers from man-made fibre, machinery, dyes and chemical auxiliaries industries. The btra zone largely comprised composite mills and from the beginning, the r & d and services were fine-tuned to satisfy their comprehensive requirements. Industrial research is viewed today as a commercial operation to be justified solely by the usefulness of the results to the textile industry. Therefore, the limited resources of btra have been, from the very beginning, efficiently deployed in such areas where maximum benefits accrue to the textile industry. R & d activities at btra cover applied and basic research, process and product development, new and frontier areas of technology, engineering and microprocessor-based instrumentation, operational studies to improve and standardize mill working, testing and consultancy services, maintenance audit, energy conservation and additional energy sources, communication and training, post graduate research and appropriate technology for the decentralised sector. Assistance to the government and public sector institutions on matters.