Pakistan Industrial Technical Assistance Center (PITAC) engineers are preparing drawings of ginning machines modified in the light of report prepared by a foreign consultant, whose services, were acquired by the Small and Medium Enterprise Development Authority (Smeda), to make ginning sector more efficient by improving quality of its products.
'PITAC has been assigned this task by the Engineering Development Board (EDB) which is looking after this task now, relieving Smeda. PITAC engineers would hand over these drawings to machinery manufacturers in Multan who would prepare a ginning machine on trial basis for an interested investor.
This factor would be very close to those modified in the light of report of the foreign consultant, if not exactly the same,' said Manager Technical Services Smeda, Khalid Kifah, while talking to Business Recorder.
Khalid hoped that performance of this modified machinery would be much better than the old machinery. He said that PITAC engineers were preparing these drawings on site so that the ginning factories could be standardised in future.
He stated that ginning machinery modification process was started in year 2002, when Smeda, on government initiative, had invited a French consultant, who described the technology, then in use here, as 'outdated'.
In the light of his report, various measures were taken, which not only reduced power consumption, but also improved the quality of lint, he added. As a pilot project these modifications were implemented in different ginning factories of Bahawalpur, Khanpur and in Sindh. A ginning factory reported that after implementing these modifications it achieved an increase in production by 11 percent, whereas energy cost came down by 12 percent, through use of proper sized ribs, he said. Kifah said that during this season, performance of these factories would again be monitored, in order to standardise the ginning machinery.