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Economy
The major industry is textiles, with more than 400 manufacturing units in the
town. There is also a huge cloth market. The main textile product is synthetic fabric
used in trousers. The city is a market for mica, grains, cotton, and wool. Its manufactures
include textiles and metalware. It was the immense effort of Lt. Sh. Jugal Kishore
Sharaf and then Lt. Sh. Chetan Sharaf owner of "Jugal Kishore Mica corp." That played
a crucial role in Bhilwara being a major Mica producing area. Mansingha family,
Jaiswal Family a well known business family, M/s. Ashok Kumar Daruka has had a major
share in export of Mica worldwide, has impact on the development of the city.
Bhilwara is the one of the major textile centre of the Country. It is prominent
in manufacturer of P/V blended yarn and suiting. The turn over of the textile industry
is more than Rs. 10,000 crore p.a. It has 9 major spinning mills and 5 small spinning
mills. The total spindlage installed at Bhilwara are approx. 4.50 lacs about 40%
of the State capacity. It has 18 modern process houses to process polyester/viscose
suiting with the capacity of 50-55 crore meters of fabric p.a. In weaving sector
it has approx. 13,500 looms out of which about 9000 are modern shuttleless looms.
Exports of textiles from the district is of more than Rs. 750 crore p.a.
It is the only center in the country producing insulation bricks. There are about
25 units. In mining sector large scale mining of sand stone, which is also exporting.
The other major mining activity is in soap stone mining, the talcum powder manufactured
by UMDS is supplied to all major manufacturing units
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