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NTU Dice foundation. The chair, co-chair and chief organiser of Association, All Pakistan Textile Processing Mills

the DICE Textile event were Dr. Yasir Nawab, Dr. Talha
Association, All Pakistan Textile Mills Association, All
Textile Innovation Event Hamadani and Mr. Muhammad Umar Nazir respectively. Pakistan Cotton Power Looms Association, Sizing
Association, Pakistan Gloves Manufacturers &
Exporters Association, and Pakistan Sports Goods
The other participants included All-Pakistan
Bedsheets And Upholstery Manufacturers
sponsors of the event were Interloop Ltd., iTextiles,
Association, Pakistan Readymade Garments Manufacturers & Exporters Association. The
Manufacturers & Exporters Association, Pakistan Al-karam Textile, Sapphire Textile, Arshad Group,
Hosiery Manufacturers Associations, Pakistan Textile Crestex, Nizam Sons, and Mahmood Group of
Exporters Association, Council of Loom Owners – Industries. TEXtalks was media partner of the event.

National Textile University aspires to have a • Conventional/Technical Textiles
transformative impact on the socio-economic • Fashion/Design
development of the country in general and textile & • Projects from Industry
clothing industry in particular, with outstanding
education, research, and eco-friendly innovation. Dice Sharks
National Textile University is motivated to play its role • An initiative to pitch research projects to
to bring Textile Industry back on track by setting an CEOs/Technical Directors for funding with the
agenda which is based on scientific evidence and objective to encourage innovation by youth and to
which aims at sustainable growth through innovation. make it beneficial for industry. This year 1.65 million
of funds were allocated.
DICE Textile is a focused strategic initiative of DICE
Foundation USA, led by National Textile University National Innovation Basket in Textiles
(NTU) Faisalabad in close collaboration with • Activity followed by Panel discussion to list down
consortium universities, textile Industry, and short term, medium term and long-term projects for
government. The major objectives of DICE Textile the sustainable growth of textile exports of Pakistan.
platform are: The panel discussions helped to refine the proposals
• to grow indigenous textile industry in Pakistan by for Textile Research Policy.
providing a common platform for Academia, Textile
Industry, Government and Expatriates International Conference on Innovation &
• to promote and collaborate on innovations related Entrepreneurship in Textiles (IeTEX)
to textile sector, commercialization of innovations, • Academics, experts and professionals were invited
textile engineering capacity building leveraging to express ideas and solutions for the local industry.
knowledge of expatriates around the world,
• to provide access to Pakistan textile industry to The chief guest of the 3rd DICE Textile Innovation
international markets leveraging extensive event was Professor Dr Arshad Ali, Executive Director
expatriate network of Higher Education Commission of Pakistan. The
• to help Government of Pakistan in textile policy speakers travelled from North Carolina (USA), Italy,
making. South Korea, China, and all major parts of Pakistan
including BUITEMS Quetta, Mehran University
Below given are the major activities of this year’s Hyderabad, NED University Karachi, UET Taxila and
NTU-Dice Textile: many others professional organisations. Thirty-five
academic institutions/universities, 50 industries, and
Innovation competition delegations from Faisalabad Chamber of Commerce
Detailed list of winners given below, among 178 & Industry, Sialkot Chamber of Commerce and
projects for the prizes worth Rs. 0.5 million in the Industry participated in the event. The steering
following categories: committee members for the event included Mr.
• Commercialization ready projects (by Ahmad Shafi, Mr. Mujeeb Ullah Khan, Dr Zulfiqar Ali,
students/faculty) Dr. Abher Rashid and Dr. Sheraz Ahmed. Dr.
• Concept ready projects (Students) Khurshid Qureshi is the President of the DICE
February/March 2018