Surat-based Premier Looms will start local production of ‘air jet’ weaving looms in a year ... ‘air-jet’ looms and assembled them in India. It will start local production in a year.

When he arrived in Bhiwandi as a 15-year-old boy, workshops weaving cloth on the looms were thriving, providing ready jobs for many unskilled workers from far-flung villages in north India.

When he arrived in Bhiwandi as a 15-year-old boy, workshops weaving cloth on the looms were thriving, providing ready jobs for many unskilled workers from far-flung villages in north India.