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Development of Textile Industry in Rwanda
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Employment Generation

• Industrial Development in Textiles
• Agriculture
• Textiles
• Adding value by combining Agriculture and
  Textiles
• Silk
• Banana Stem Fibers and Pineapple leaf fibers.

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Villages are the Backbone of the Country
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Key Factors for Industrial Development

1. Identifying available resources
2. Global Market for Available Resources
3. Appropriate Technology for Value Addition
4. Promoting products Services to the Global Market

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Banana Fiber

• Sourced from Banana Plant
• Abundantly available in Rwanda
• Possibility to extract 2500 Tons/year

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Application Areas of Banana Fiber

• Banana fiber as a natural sorbent
• Banana fiber as a base material for
  bioremediation and recycling
• Banana fiber as a natural water purifier
• Banana fiber as a base material for the paper and
  pulp industry
• Banana fiber in handicrafts and textiles
• Banana fiber a license to print money

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Stages in Banana Fiber Based Textiles

• Collection of stems and leaves
• Fiber extraction
• Softening and cutting
• Spinning and Weaving
• Processing
• Apparel production
• Fiber Extraction
• By Hand 500 gms/ 8 hrs
• By Machine 15 20 Kgs / 8 hrs

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Sericulture Silk

• Agro based economy
• Volcanic soil suitable for growing Mulberry
• Climatic conditions supports production of good
  quality Mulberry

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Sericulture Stages

• Mulberry cultivation
• Silk worm rearing cocoon production
• Reeling of silk filament
• Re-reeling of silk yarn Twisting
• Weaving
• Processing (Dyeing Printing)
• Finishing
• Garmenting
• Marketing.

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Role of Co-operatives..

• Mulberry cultivation, Silk worm Rearing Cocoon
  production
• Grading Selling
• Handloom Manufacturing
• Handloom Weaving
• Central Processing facility
• Cutting Sewing
• Marketing

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Local Loom Manufacturing..

• To avoid dependency on foreign machine
  manufacturers, service engineers and spares.
• Hand-looms can be manufactured with locally
  available wood (90 parts) and 10 of remaining
  metallic parts can also be from imported Iron and
  Steel.
• Professional Machine Designer to make an
  engineering design of the handloom Parts
• Joining with the existing Technical Schools in
  the country to make use of their Carpentry
  Workshops/Labs.

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Vertically Integrated Silk Industry..

• With these initiatives We can create a whole new
  vertically Integrated Silk Industry in Rwanda
  with all parts of value chain in place in the
  decentralized sector with cooperative units and
  SMEs and a larger Private Sector Player can set
  up Fashion and Product Design Studios along with
  Export Marketing activities.

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Employment in RWANDA..

• As a result of these initiatives, the estimated
  employment creation in silk industry could be in
  the range of about 150,000 with 10000 Hectares of
  Mulberry Cultivation and corresponding creation
  of value and Supply chains in the country.
• The Banana and Pineapple Fibers initiative can
  create an employment of over 100,000.

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Expected REVENUE..

• The ultimate Export earnings could of the range
  of 250 Mil Per Year from Silk Exports.
• The exports from Banana fibers can be over 5
  Mil. per year and much more from the Handicraft
  items and textile production from the country.

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Silk From Soil to Neck Tie..

• UTEXRWA in Rwanda, is the only company in the
  whole world having a fully vertically
  integrated Silk production facility, from Soil to
  neck- Tie (final product) under one roof.
• This all have been made possible with in the last
  three years.

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Our Further Development..

• Initiation taken to train the trainers from
  Kigali City for cocoon production
• We further experimented, using Natural and
  vegetable dyes and created different samples.

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With Other New Fibers..

• We are also simultaneously working on Banana and
  Pineapple leaf fiber production which can be
  emulated in the same model as that of Silk.
• We have just ordered some Fiber Extractors, and
  we expect to be extracting Banana and Pineapple
  fibers by end of May 2009 in Rwanda and will have
  the trial production and develop products before
  the end of this year.

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Technical Textiles

• agrotech agriculture, aquaculture, horticulture
  and forestry
• buildtech building and construction
• clothtech technical components of footwear and
  clothing
• geotech geotextiles and civil engineering
• hometech technical components of furniture,
  household textiles and floor
  coverings
• indutech filtration, conveying, cleaning and
  other Industrial uses
• medtech hygiene and medical
• mobiltech automobiles, shipping, railways and
  aerospace
• Ecokotech environmental protection
• packtech packaging
• protech personal and property protection
• sporttech sport and leisure.

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Our Real Life

• Weaving Dreams in to Prosperity

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Thank you!