Textile industry in the South India is predominantly a spinning industry supplying yarn to the decentralised sector all over the country.The South has also large cotton growing areas with a number of ginneries. In the early fifties, the industrialists in the South under the leadership of Cavalier G.K.Devarajulu and Padmabushan K.Sreenivasan took the initiative to set up a laboratory at Coimbatore to specialise in fibre technology and spinning. The late Dr. R.K. Shanmugam Chetty, former Finance Minister was instrumental in bringing about the organisation, thus The South India Textile Research Association (SITRA) was born.And today, SITRA is equipped with state-of-art machinery and instruments that could be seen only in the best laboratories of the World.

The South India Textile Research Association
P.B.No.:3205,Coimbatore Aerodrome P.O.,Coimbatore -641014,India.
Telephone : +91-422-574367 Telegram : SITRA Fax : +91-422-571896
E-mail : sitra@md2.vsnl.net.in