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Picanol’s digitized
Aptma seeks five-year textile policy to

insertion on rapier
double exports to $26bn

Mr Gohar Ejaz, APTMA Group Leader has sought a textile prices. However if this 26 percent increase in
five-year textile policy to double the textile exports to quantity had not been achieved the exports would
$26bn and create 3mn new jobs in the country. have been less than $8.5bn, the international prices
have now recovered.
On the visit of Advisor to Prime Minister on
Information Firdous Ashiq Awan at the APTMA Speaking on the occasion, Chairman Task Force said
Punjab office he appreciated Prime Minister for the task force has started working on a new textile
appointing Mr Ahsan Bashir, former Chairman policy to increase its exports to $25bn by 2024. He
APTMA as Chairman Task Force on Textile and expressed the hope that a comprehensive textile
expressed the hope that the task force would ensure policy would be finalized by December 2019.
Digitized Insertion
Picanol OptiMax-i
consistency in the government policies towards
business. He said the share of Pakistan in the $450bn world
We are undoubtedly seeing a digital revolution in garments exports is 1.5pc that needed to be
• With the QuickStep filling presenter, different
timings for presentation, insertion and rest position
weaving, propelled by the wave of Industry 4.0 (the increased through investment in the garment sector.
He said the textile industry has achieved a record
fourth industrial revolution). That’s why as a pioneer He said the exports can never touch the magical
can be programmed. While the QuickStep is nothing
increase of 26pc growth in quantitative terms
in weaving as well as in electronics, Picanol is proud figure of $50bn unless Pakistan promotes and Ad
new it is still the benchmark on the market.
although this did not directly reflect in the dollar
to demonstrate an OptiMax-i weaving denim fabrics develops its small and medium (SME) sector.
amounts due to a substantial worldwide decrease in
with almost fully digitized insertion. • New on this machine is the Electronic Right Gripper
Opener (ERGO). Developed as a gripper opener to
As the major weaving machine supplier in the denim tune the machine for minimum waste length when
business, Picanol is in the best possible position to weaving different types of weft yarn, the ERGO is an
New Sales tax return
detect the future needs of the customers. Together additional step in the digitization of the weaving
with the customers Picanol is able to work out machine, allowing fully electronic setting of the
solutions and make this revolution actually happen right-hand-side gripper opener even while the
monitoring software by FBR
already today. machine is running.
Hence Picanol demonstrated a denim machine with In addition to these “Driven by Data” features Picanol
insertion that has been almost completely digitized. also demonstrate an impressive “Sustainability
Thanks to the integrated concept all settings are Inside” capability, with the EcoFill in 4-color version
To effectively monitor the sales tax returns, Chairman Federal Board of Revenue Syed Muhammad Shabbar
available and can be retrieved on the central installed on this OptiMax-i.
Zaidi has inaugurated a new software called Centralized Sales Tax & FED Assessment & Processing (CSTAP).
microprocessor.
Picanol was the first machine manufacturer to
Developed by IR-Operations Wing of FBR, this software has been inaugurated at FBR Headquarters. The
• It starts right from the prewinders equipped with a eliminate the left-hand side waste ribbon on a rapier
purpose of the software is to identify the tax gaps and to determine actual Sales Tax/ FED liabilities of all
tension display (TED). Having a digital setting of the machine, introduced in 2011 in a 2-color version
taxpayers. This software will also be used for the purpose of expeditious processing of refund claims.
brake on the prewinder not only gives you a tension aimed at technical fabrics. The Picanol system for a
which is reproducible in the future, but also allows catchcord-free set-up on the left-hand side has been
Ms Seema Shakeel, Member IR-Operations demonstrated the working and application of the new software live.
you to manage possible differences between extended to a 4-color version, with no limitations for
prewinders in a much easier way. The filling tension the designers in terms of e.g. color pattern. On top of
The Chairman FBR was also informed that first batch of 25 officers from field formations are given task to test
during insertion can be electronically controlled with this, this feature is also very intuitive to control, as the
run this project from September 11, 2019.
the programmable filling tensioner TEC to eliminate EcoFill settings are fully digital.
possible tension peaks. The signals from the filling
However, after successful test run of this project, the same shall be made available to all field formations
detector – either standard or SmartEye – are throughout the country.
Note: The Picanol agency for North of Pakistan will
continuously monitored and analyzed by the be taken over by Madhani Associates, already being
machine's microprocessor. agent for South of Pakistan.
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