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Erode is one of the ten municipal corporations of Tamil Nadu and the headquarters of Erode district, Tamil Nadu, India. It is the eighth largest city in Tamil Nadu and situated on the western bank of the river Kaveri between 121 ° 19.5" and 11 ° 81.05" North latitude and 77 ° 42.5" and 77 ° 44.5" East longitude. It has a population of about half a million making the city as the 8th largest urban agglomeration in the state.
City code Of Erode is 424
Population 598,906
Area • Elevation (AMSL) 160.15 km² (62 sq mi)
Industries in Erode
Erode district is one among the industrially developing districts. Industry and Trade occupy a place of jpowerloom weaving is slowly replacing it. There are 24189 registered SSI units as on 31.12.2000 in the district besides 59 Large Scale Units.
The district has high concentration of powerloom & Handloom weaving, Rice milling, Edible oil expelling units. The other industries are Tanneries, Chemical & Plastic Products, Paper Products, Basic Metal Products industries etc.
Erode is the prime city for tanning of leather from raw hides to semi finished product called WET Blue and they are traded to Chennai,Ambur,Ranipet,Bangalore,Kolkata,Dewas for making the finished products.
The history of the Leather industry at Erode dates back to 1906 and most of the leathers made at Erode were beign exported to U.K.and Europe. Mostly Erode Tanners preferred to do cow and buff hides.
Pickeled goat skins were exproted quite some time during early 1950s. During those period E.I Tanned(East India Tanned)Leathers manufactured at Erode East India tanning means tanning of leathers by using Barks and nuts from plants and trees only without any chemicals.So it is also known as vegetable tanned leather.
Before 1970s only E.I.tanned leathers were manufactured in this town. In the beginning E.I.Leathers only leathers which were used for local uses like ploughing and fetching water from well for irrigation purpose. These Leathers were called "Kavali tholl" (kavalai= water fetching bag.) Almost 12000 people are engaged in direct and indirect Leather and its allied Industries at Erode.
Erode is a major Railway City and is home to the largest Diesel and Electric locomotive sheds in Southern Railway, and both these locomotive shed put together house more than 300 locomotives. Locomotives from Erode sheds haul trains all over India.
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