CONTRIBUTORS:

Dr. Ahmad Niaz (Late)

"Pioneer of Textiles in the Pakistan"; Dr. Ahmad Niaz was associated with Synthetic Fibre Development & Application Center, Karachi, Pakistan as Textile Professor. He was also part-time Textile Research Head, Department of Textile Science, Indus University, Karachi, Pakistan.

He graduated in chemistry and physics from Govt. College, Lahore in the per-independence days in 1947. After getting an M.Sc. degree in Chemical Engineering, he joined the Govt. Weaving & Finishing Centre at shahdara and served there as Principal and General Manager. He won a Colombo plan scholarship to study in Manchester College of Science & Technology where he got M.Sc. (Tech) degree in 1957, under the supervision of (late) Mr. H.A. Turner. In 1961, the west Pakistan Govt. deputed him to set up the first Textile degree college in the country at Faisalabad. In 1972, he got Ph.D. degree in Textile Chemistry from the Leeds University, working with (late) Professor Whewell, Head of the Textile Department.

In 1976, he was selected as Co-Manager of a UNIDO sponsored Textile Research & Development project in Karachi, which he got converted into the Pakistan’s first Textile industry Research & Development Centre in 1980. He served as Director of TIRDC, Textile Commissioner & Secretary of the Textile section of 7^th 5-years development plan for Pakistan, before retiring in 1989.He has written many Textile articles at National level. He has also written 40 papers in international textile journals like Textile Research Journal (USA), Journal of Society of Dyers and Colourists , Textile Horizon (U.k.) and Textile Asia (Hong Kong)., & got 2 patents (one purchased) and co-authored about 100 consultancy reports. In addition, he has written 3 books on the subject of Textile Chemistry, all books are included in the syllabus of Textile Sciences/Engineering. After retirement, he worked as Textile consultant and prepared feasibility studies for setting up the Textile Engineering Department at NED University of Engineering & Technology, and teaching and training institutes for the Towel Manufacturing Association and Knitwear Association of Pakistan. As a consultant, he also prepared the feasibility studies for setting up various Textile dyeing and finishing mills. At the same time, he worked as a representative of a U.S Textile importing firm, as an expert for the board of Revenue to re-evaluate customs drawback on the textile exports and part time teacher in a Textile college.

He has supervised BS/BE & MS/ME Textile Students in numbers of Textile theses/projects, and many of projects got international publications & supported Textile industry of Pakistan. His support for Textile Education/Community is enormous, worthy and Incredible.

Dr. Muhammad Hanif Memon, A former Textile Professor, Department of Textile Science at Indus University, Karachi, Pakistan. Now a days, he is providing consulting services to academics & industry & holds a position as a Chief Associate, TEXCON (Textile Consulting Service), Karachi , Pakistan. He is one of the pioneers in the field of Textile wet processing who has very vast experience (more than 30 years) in Textile academics & Textile industry. He had been CEO at SFDAC ( Synthetic Fibre Development & Application Center ) for one year. He has been associated with various textile institutions of sindh, Pakistan as visiting professor.

After doing a master degree in Analytical Chemistry in 1977, his immediate appointment as lecturer at the university of Sindh later earned him a Professorship in 1998; meanwhile doing a Ph.D. from University of Hull, UK in 1988 in the field of organized surfactant systems & their application. He has been teaching textile processing to graduate and postgrduate students of textile science and engineering programs after doing his doctorate in the said field. He has also delivered a number of popular lectures on; newer textile developments, world textile scenario, status & scope of textile in the Pakistan; at various well reputed institutions of higher education in pakistan. He Contributed in the design of the Master of Textile Engineering programme at Mehran University of Engineering & Technology, Jamshoro, Pakistan. He designed & Implemented the Master of Textiles programme at Indus University. He has many international publications mainly in Textile finishing. He organized & participated in many national & international conferences. He has supervised number of students of bachelor & master in different textile research projects. He has been involved to serve the Textile industry as a Textile Consultant for more than 20 years. He worked on modifications, cost optimization & process control in various Textile wet processes including printing, finishing & waste water treatment plants and got success in these industrial projects.

He is member of Society of Dyers & Colourists, Royal Society of Chemistry, European Network of Lateritic Weathering and Global Environment (EUROLET)& he is a life member of Chemical Society of Pakistan. He is associated, as expert, with the external audit team of a Belgium company for ISO standardization of Textile mills in Pakistan. He has remained working with US Dreams Inc. USA; Lucky tex and GS Industries, Pakistan as technical Advisor & Technical director respectively for the last ten years.

Dr. Mazhar Hussain Peerzada is working as Chairman Textile Engineering Department, Mehran University of Engineering & Technology, Jamshoro, Pakistan. He has completed his Ph.D. in Textile 3D Weaving from University of Manchester, England in 2012. He received his bachelor of Engineering in the discipline of Textile Engineering from Mehran University of Engineering & Technology, Jamshoro, Pakistan in 2003. He possesses many international publications mainly on advanced fabric manufacturing. He participated in various national & international conferences as presenter & chairman. He has written many workbooks for Textile students.

He started his career with Gul Ahmed Textile Mills Ltd. and served for 18 months as Incharge Finishing. After this, he joined Department of Textile Engineering, Mehran University of Engineering & Technology as Lecturer. He taught number of courses such as: Textile Chemistry, Yarn Manufacturing, Fabric Manufacturing & Textile Mechanics in Department of Textile Engineering during the period of September 2004 to September 2007.

Email Contact: mazhar.peerzada@faculty.muet.edu.pk

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Director Operations ITRC:

Muhammad Moosa Abdul Rehman

Muhammad Awais Imran is currently working as an Assistant Manager, Research & Development Center, at Alkaram Textile Mills (AKTM) since 2016. Before joining AKTM, he served as Junior Incharge Finishing Department, Lucky Textile Mills, Karachi, Pakistan for 1 year 2015-2016. He has also served as a Production Analyst at Arabian Textile Mills and as a QA Supervisor at Gul Ahmed Textile Mills, Karachi, Pakistan . He received his bachelor of Textile Science degree from Indus University in 2012. He is also enrolled in Master of Textiles, Indus University. He has been involved in research & community's activities since starting of his bachelor program with Mohammad Moosa Abdul Rehman. He has been writing textile notes on various topics including textile fibre, Pretreatment, dyeing,Printing & Finishing for last 3 years.

In addition, he is student member of Society of Dyers & Colorists , Bradford, UK. He possesses one international publication in HEC approved Journal "Journal of Cleaner Production", moreover, he has three publications, one at National the other two at International level. He has written many general articles, some of them in fibre2fashion, India and Textilelearner Blog , Bangladesh.

At Industrial Level, He got many successes; in bleaching department where he implemented single stage desizing-scouring-bleaching process of polyester/cotton fabrics with collaboration of Dr. Tanveer Hussain, Dr. Hanif Memon, Asad Ahmed Mufti & Muhammad Moosa AR khan, moreover he reduced the bleaching cost up to 40% by working on recipe optimization & judicious selection of chemicals. He has worked on the modifications of Jigger dyeing processes.

Email Contact: awais_textilian@hotmail.com

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EX-HEADS ITRC:

Asad Ahmed Mufti is an Entrepreneur & Director at Auxicolors Chemicals, Karachi, Pakistan. He is awarded as "Textile Best Student" and best achiever award for "Entrepreneurship" by Department of Textile Science, Indus University, Karachi, Pakistan. He completed his bachelor of Textile science with Gold Medal from Indus University in 2008. He started his career with Afroze Textile industries and served for 4 years start from Lab chemist to Research & Development Manager and then to an Asst. General Manager. During this period, he got first position from Afroze textile Industries to represent as a first position research student among all textile industries and then in 2011, he joined Yunus Textile Mills as Manager R & D due to many successes in the research and development, cost benefit analysis, heat recovery and cost optimization projects from greige to finish and where he is nominated as IKEA customer member. He is also nominated in the motivation program to involve the employees in fruitful environment like presentation and drastic happening about chemicals and disasters. He qualified URS Environment test from Yunus Textile Mills. He is awarded as "First place in Researcher" with well sound knowledge by APTMA , organized by AVM chemicals and association with the chemical industries. He is a member of URS environmental policies, United Nation Development Program (UNDP) to enhance Stitching and Weaving Efficiency.

After continuous painstaking hardship, he got success to construct a Textile chemical company with name of "Auxicolors" cooperation with the Japanese and German technology in 2012 and he is also a Textile consultant. He is also supervising to many Textile students in their final projects. He participated in many conferences at Indus University as Presenter. In addition, He is supporting to Indus Textile lab in terms of newer chemicals & processes

Email Contact: texpertasad@hotmail.com

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Furqan Sangani is an Entrepreneur & Director at Arabian Textile Mills, Karachi, Pakistan. He is one of the best students of Department of Textile Science, Indus university, Pakistan. He received his Bachelor in Textile Science degree with Gold Medal in 2012. He is enrolled in Master of Textiles, Indus University.He started his career with his own company Arabian Textile Mills as Director in 2012. He is supporting ITRC in terms of finance & providing the internship, training facilities to Textile student in different fields of Textiles including warping, weaving and Textile wet processing.

At his own industry, he is leading Technical processing team, Rotary Printing machine erection, Stenter machine erection, Solid & chemical wastage control plan & different Energy conservation projects.

Email Contact: furqan@arabiantex.com

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Chairman ITRC

Hasib us Salam, a former senior lecturer, Department of Textile Science, Indus University, Karachi, Pakistan. Now a days, he is associated with largest Retailer, Wal-mart, as a Senior Fabric & Color Technologist in raw material team, Bangladesh & after getting promotion from Wal-mart , Pakistan. He belongs to dual-functional perspective, Industry & Academia. He graduated in discipline of Bachelor of Science in Textile Science from Textile Institute of Pakistan (TIP). He is also enrolled in Master of Textiles, Indus University. He organized & participated in many national & international conferences & seminars. He has supervised numbers of textile projects, theses and many of them got success at industrial level. He is also senior adviser of ITRC.

In academia, he is known as "Passionate Teacher". He had been Head of Department of Textile Science, Indus University for about 6 years, from 2004-2010. While possessing the position of HOD Textile Science Department, he has been teaching in Department of Textile Science on various subjects including, Dyeing of Natural Fibre, Dyeing of synthetic Fibre, Fundamentals of dyeing & Textile pretreatment since 2004, and due to his teaching passion it is continue yet. In addition, he has an experience of textile wet processing for knitted goods right from the knitting till finish product, including knitting, dyeing, printing, finishing, cut and sew. He has been working as an Assistant Processing Manager at a socks manufacturing company earlier in the career then join Al-karam group for their knit processing department. He was pioneer member of the department, was involved from plant installation till execution. He served as an Asst Manager, Deputy Processing Manager and left the job in March 2012 as a QC & R & D Manager. He has served a textile processing mill as a GM-Processing. .

Email Contact: texpert_hs@hotmail.com

Official Email: hod_textile@indus.edu.pk

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Syed Kaiser Rizvi, former lecturer, Department of Textile Science, Indus University, Karachi, Pakistan. He has been teaching the subjects of Apparel Manufacturing & Textile Merchandising & Marketing in the Department of Textile Science since 2009. Now a days, he is working in MNC, JUKI, as General Manager Sales since 2016. Before this, He was working as Regional Head -Marketing & Merchandiser, Auchan Retail, & Medsons Pvt Ltd. a french retail chain of stores having stores in 13 European countries, and he is associated with this profession since last 13 years. He graduated in bachelor of Textile Science from Textile Institute of Pakistan (TIP), Karachi, Pakistan. He is enrolled in Master of Textiles at Indus University. In part-time, he also delivers Textile apparel lectures at Pakistan Bedwear Institute. He is expert & has vast experience in the field of Merchandising & Textile Marketing.

He is supervising many textile students in their final projects. He gives his valuable advices for the development of ITRC.

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MANAGERS ITRC:

Abdul Moid Samiullah

Javaid Nabi Afridi

Javaid Nabi Afridi is currently working as Sr. Sales Engr. in Pulcra Chemical, Karachi, Pakistan since 2017.Before joining this company, he was working as Technical Dyeing Incharge at Lucky Textile Mills Ltd. landhi Karachi, Pakistan. Moreover, He has worked at Rauf Textile & Printing Mills (Pvt) Ltd. as Dyeing & Finishing Incharge for almost 6 years. From the beginning, he is very hardworking student, he completed his Bachelor of Textile Science while continue doing job in 2012 from Indus University, Karachi, Pakistan. He is also enrolled in MS Textiles form the same university. He is one of the Initiators of an ITRC at Indus University. He participated in many National & International conferences within Pakistan. He supervises the Bachelors students in their final year projects. He also provides Textile consulting service to many Textile mills; one of the dominant services he provided at Nooriabad, in local Textile mill where he led the Technical team of machines erection.

At Industrial Level, He got many successes, some of them are; dyes cost saving, pretreatment process & cost control for camouflage articles, chemicals & energy saving techniques in Thermosol dyeing & efficient processing of lycra fabrics,

Email Contact: javaid_nabi87@hotmail.com

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Muhammad Saad Feroz

Muhammad Saad Feroz is working at Levi's as Assistant Product Development, Karachi, Pakistan since 2011. He received his bachelor of Textile Business Administration degree with Gold Medal from Indus University in 2011. He is awarded as "Best Textile Student" in 2013. He is also enrolled in Master of Textiles, Indus University. He has been involved in research & community's activities since 2013. He is supervising many Textile Business students in their final year projects.

SITE DEVELOPER:

Ahmer Adnan Balcoh

Ahmer Adnan Blaoch is working in Rope Dyeing Department, Artistic Milliners, Unit 5, Karachi, Pakistan. Before this, he was in Quality Control Department, as QA Officer for 2 years at Al-Karam Textile Mills. Karachi, Pakistan. He graduated in Bachelor of Textile Science, Department of Textile science, Indus University, Karachi, Pakistan. He is also enrolled in Master of Textiles. He has been very good, active student during his studies at Indus University. He has worked for the development of ITRC actively and has strengthen the image of ITRC in many aspects, e.g. Blogging, Google Groups & Site & mediafire networking. He is continuously working yet, In future, he keeps the creative approach for ITRC developments.

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