A full day Workshop on
"Textile Industry: Challenges and Opportunities towards value addition"
on 05th October, 2015 at Faislabad.
PCST in collaboration with National Textile University (NTU), Faisalabad organized a full day workshop on “Textile Industry: Challenges and Opportunities towards value addition” on 05th October, 2015. The objectives of this event was to highlight the challenges faced by Textile industry and to explore the potential opportunities available. The Federal Minister for Science and Technology, Rana Tanveer Hussain was the Chief Guest of the event. Prof. Dr. Anwar-ul-Hassan GilaniS.I, Chairman PCST and Ch. Muhammad Nawaz, the President FCCI graced the event with their presence and addresses. Prof. Dr. Arshad Ali, Rector NTU was host the event with his presence and presentation on “Changing Role of a University”. Experts from textile industry and academia shared their thoughts and suggestions on the effective revival of textile industry.
Furthermore, audience introduced new trends in the global textile industry. Around nine prominent speakers, with diverse backgrounds spoke on the occasion. Some of the speakers included Mr. Ihsan Rehman Technical Director Sapphire Mills, Dr. Mushtaq Mangat, CEO, Modemo Fabrics, Dr. M. Mohsin, Assistant Professor, UET (Faisalabad Campus), Ms. Ismat Gul Khattak, Director General, PNAC, Mr. Gundolf Klaehn, Project Manager, GIZ Pakistan, Mr. Shahid Shahbaz, GM AA Spining and Dr. Mazhar Hussain Peerzada, Associate Professor, Mehran University Sindh delivered the presentations on different topics related to workshop’s theme. Followed by presentations, an open discussion session was arranged, in which both industrialist and academia were given opportunity to discuss openly about the issues and possible ways to bridge the gap. The discussion session was ended with commitment and promise from both sides to arrange technical trainings, industry sponsored PhD and MS project oriented with industrial problems. There were more than 200 participants including textile industry and academia.