The search for local and indigenous technologies for the mass production of textile products on sustainable basis cannot be overemphasised.
For the batik industry many processes are carried out manually, making production quite slow and time-consuming.
This is why the invention of a batik printing machine by a 31-year-old product of Tema Technical Institute (TTI), Mr Mawuena Kwesi Amedorme, is most welcome for the small and medium enterprises of the textile sector.
The machine is designed to produce batik, real cloth and java and operates on electricity and Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG).
Built from scrap metal, the machine can print, iron, dye, wash and dry textile in production and also fold it into neat packages.
According to the engineer, 10 persons operate it at a time and it can print 500 full pieces of textiles, that is, 6,000 yards of cloth in eight hours.
He told the Daily Graphic that the invention was a revelation from a dream and that he could dismantle and reassemble it elsewhere.
Mr Amedorme said so far, only one had been produced for Quality Batik Printers Company in Ho.
The Chief Executive of the company, Mr S.A. Osabutey, saw the machine as an innovation that would accelerate the pace of batik production and revolutionise it, since hitherto batik was produced manually and entailed much time in production.
‘This time round we shall be able to produce more to meet the rising demands of customers’, he said.
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