Organizers' Say:

On the success of the felicitous event, incited President of CEMATEX, Mr Roberts said: "The success of the first-ever combined show demonstrates that we are moving in the right direction to meet the needs of the textile manufacturing community. Together with CTMA, our objective is to offer our exhibitors and their customers a cost-effective exhibition of the highest quality. It is more beneficial to have ONE significant platform, as opposed to a series of fragmented textile machinery showcases that put a strain on financial and human resources. Our intention has been clearly stated in our show promotion: Two Established Showcases, One Leading-edge Platform, Infinite Business Opportunities."

 

Mr Gao Yong, VP CNTAC and President of CTMA, supported saying: "The global textile industry is in a critical transitional period from traditional technologies to high-tech civilisation. The massive display of technology and equipment at the exhibition played a very important role in the promotion of the Asian and global textile industry."

The special partner of the show - JTMA's Chairman, Mr Tetsuro Toyoda expressed his pleasure to see visitors multitude visiting the booths and exclaimed: "It is good to see so many visitors at the show, especially when you realise that all these people have to pay for their tickets for the first time at such a show in China. This demonstrates the joint strength of the two brands and the enthusiasm of the customers at such a difficult economic period. This is really encouraging."

Speaking on the success of the event, Ms Sylvia Phua, CEO of the co-organiser company MP International, quotes: "The show was sold out several months before the event and we had a long waitlist of companies waiting for space right up to the show itself."

"One of our main objectives when planning this show was to achieve one huge, high quality show at a reasonable cost for our exhibitors, and to attract high quality visitors from all over Asia. This was achieved. The ITMA ASIA + CITME 2008 show was the largest textile machinery event ever held in China, the cost per square metre to our exhibitors was much lower than other local textile machinery shows held in China, and we also were able to attract 20% of our visitors from outside China, which is the highest percentage ever at a textile machinery show held in China. The fact that we charged a visitor entry fee also ensured that the quality of visitors was much higher than at previous Chinese shows," she closed in satisfaction.

Conclusion:

It was a great experience for our team to be at the show. Moreover, in the light of the comments from the participators and organizers, it would not be an exaggeration to make assertive note that- though organized for the first time in the textile history, this, one of its kind- hand in glove event, (sparing a few off-putting instances), has lived up to the expectations of industry in proportion to the brand image that ITMA has created so far in the arena of textile machinery trade fairs.