A team from IIT-Madras studied its functioning before issuing a prima facie report.

The Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board recently had identified seven dyeing units operating illegally despite the Madras High Court's closure orders.

TNPCB's District Environmental Engineer R. Kannan told The Hindu that the Board had lodged complaints against all the seven units with the respective police stations.

Treatment of effluents generated in the dyeing process has always been a problem that the knitwear industry in Tirupur had failed to tackle.

More than two decades after he invented a novel Airflow Technology to dye fabrics, the founder of Germany-based DyeTech UG, Carl Cordes, feels that awareness has now started increasing among Indian dyeing units to preserve the environment.

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The DMK government of Tamil Nadu is expected to come out with an amicable solution to satisfy all the stakeholders

Chennai: The Madras High Court on Monday declined to alter its order directing closure of all dyeing and bleaching units in the hosiery town of Tirupur for causing pollution despite its earlier directives.

When Tamil Nadu pollution control board and Tirupur dyeing factory owners association made oral submissions seeking alteration of the January 28 order, a bench comprising CJ M Y Eqbal and

KARUR: The strong indictment of effluent treatment plants and polluting units in Tirupur by the Madras High Court which has ordered their immediate closure has come as a shot in the arm for the eco conservationists in Karur.

Court Orders Closure Of All Units On Pollution Concerns, Move To Hit 50,000 Workers
THE Madras High Court has ordered the closure of all dyeing and bleaching units in Tirupur, which generates a fifth of India

The high court here directed all bleaching and dyeing units in the textile hub of Tirupur in west-central Tamil Nadu to close with immediate effect.