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Tirupur’s own trades, one city in depth

Tirupur’s knitwear, from yarn to export.

Tirupur is one trade at full depth. It makes most of India’s cotton knitwear exports, with spinning, knitting, dyeing, printing and stitching all inside one district, and around it sit the Khaderpet domestic market and the coconut-oil trade of Kangeyam. Tirupurs.in covers all of it.

8Trades
12Knitwear lines
30Named companies
1935First hosiery factory

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Tirupur in figures

  • Garment exports of about ₹42,544 crore in 2025-26
  • Around 1,500 export units, 750 knitting units, 400 dyeing and bleaching units, 500 printing units and 350 embroidery units
  • Some 6 lakh people directly employed
  • The first hosiery factory with hand-operated machines opened in 1935
  • Kangeyam: around 150 coconut oil units and about 500 copra drying units

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