01 — Local economy
Business in Panipat
Used woollen clothing from around the world arrives in Panipat to be shredded and respun into shoddy yarn for blankets, earning the city its reputation as the cast-off clothes capital of the world. Its weavers also make rugs, bath mats, curtains and cushion covers for overseas home-furnishing retailers, and an oil refinery and petrochemical complex, a fertiliser plant and a thermal power station add energy and chemicals.
Where software helps: Home-furnishing exporters coordinate dyeing, weaving, stitching and finishing across many job-workers, while meeting buyer-specific labels, carton markings and fixed shipment dates for each order.