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Surat is one of India's largest textile manufacturing and wholesale centres, best known for sarees, dress materials and man-made fabrics such as polyester and viscose. Weaving, dyeing, printing, embroidery and wholesale trading all happen in the same city.
Surat, in Gujarat, has traded cloth for centuries and was historically famous for silk and zari (metallic thread) work. Today its strength is man-made fibre (MMF) textiles: polyester, viscose and nylon yarn woven on powerlooms, then dyed, printed, embroidered and finished in the city's processing houses.
What makes Surat unusual is that the whole value chain sits in one place. Business Standard reported the city's synthetic textile hub at around 6.5 lakh powerlooms, 450 processing units, 50,000–60,000 embroidery machines and about 75,000 traders. Finished goods are sold through hundreds of wholesale market complexes along Ring Road and in newer hubs such as Saroli, and shipped to every Indian state and overseas.
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