s are 100% Export Oriented Units of Cotton Yarn.
Sizing
Yarn sizing is a preparatory process before weaving. This process gives strength to yarn. City has approximately 175 sizing units,
working 24 hours a day, 6 days a week.
Engineering industry
Tata Nano small car is very similar to Meera, a small car developed in 1970 by Shankarrao Kulkarni of Ichalkaranji. The city is also known for Fundamental Measuring instrument manufacturing industry. These testing machines are used in engineering and other manufacturing industries, engineering institutes and research institutes for analysis. These measuring instruments are marketed in India as well as some other countries. Measuring instrument manufactured in city by varies companies include compression testing Machines, Torsion Testing Machines, Horizontal Chain & Rope Testing Machines, Spring Testing Machine, Impact Testing Machine, Erichsen Testing Machines, Universal Testing Machines, Rockwell scale Hardness Tester, Brinell scale Hardness Tester, and Computerised Vickers hardness test.
The city's economy is also driven by the engineering goods manufacturing industry (which has been around since the fifty's). Several automotive component manufacturers have plant's in or around the city, who are venders for companies such as: Maruti Udyog Ltd, Honda Motorcycle, Bajaj Auto, TVS Suzuki, Kehin Fie, Tata Motors, Kirloskar Brothers Limited, Mahindra & Mahindra, MICO. Emmel Vheelers has a manufacturing unit of hybrid three-wheeler, e-motorcycle, high-power scooters, and electric scooters in Ichalkaranji.
Agriculture
Sugarcane is the main Cash crop. The city is surrounded by five Sugar refinerys, Annually they processes Over 5000000 metric ton of Sugarcane, as of 2009 Sugarcane prices
