Tukatech to Outfit Vocational Centers in India
Los Angeles–based CAD/CAM supplier Tukatech Inc. has won a contract with the Apparel Export Promotion Council of India and will install 168 TukaCAD design stations at Apparel Training and Design Center (ATDC) vocational centers throughout the country.
Tukatech will provide TukaCAD and TukaStudio software for pattern-making, grading, marker-making and print design in addition to digitizers, plotters and other equipment at the centers, which are sponsored by the Ministry of Textiles, India, and its Apparel Export Promotion Council (AEPC).
The ATDC centers are based in Delhi, Noida, Gurgaon, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, Tirupur, Surat, Ludhiana, Kanpur, Bhuvneshwar, Hyderabad, Jaipur and Indore.
The centers offer training for high school graduates and cover all aspects of manufacturing, from product development to quality control and production pattern-making.
The objective is to support exporters with educated, skilled and experienced workers who can produce knitted and woven products to international standards. More than 10,000 students graduate from these centers every year.
“The objective is to have a world-class work force that can read, write, design, develop and enhance our apparel industry,” said K.K. Jalan, secretary general of AEPC. “Most of the fashion institutes produce engineers and designers, but ATDC is focused to produce technicians with experience that can compete globally.”
“We have been believers of ATDC for a very long time and have been running training and internship programs with ATDC for over six years,” added Ram Sareen, Tukatech chief executive officer. “Many graduates of ATDC are employed with Tukatech. Today over 160 fashion schools teach with TukaCAD systems. We are very proud to add ATDC and AEPC to that list.” —Robert McAllister
