India ITME, 2008 - biggest textile machinery show held in India concluded on 22nd November at India's Silicon Valley, Bangalore. The show has seen
a great success in terms of participants as almost every leading machinery
manufacturer attended the show. Many innovations have been introduced in the
show for the visitors who had come from across the globe to visit the show.
The show which took place at Bangalore International
Exhibition Centre initially had three A.C. exhibition halls planned which were
spread across 40,000 square meters of exhibition space. But considering huge
response and interest of companies in the show organizers were forced to add
one more exhibition hall was added at last time.
This time there is a change in exhibition venue of the show
by organizers. Previously ITME was organized in Mumbai while this time the Bangalore was organizers' choice as fair's venue considering good facilities this venue
can provide. According to some in industry this became one of the reasons for
less number of visitors for the show as most of people find this venue bit
inconvenient to travel to when compared to Mumbai.
Terrot GmbH
Terrot is a leading, Germany based, supplier of circular
knitting machine providing solutions for all high end requirements in this field
to the world market.
Terrot participated in India ITME with its two special
machines S296-1 Open width Single Jersey knitting machine which has USP of new
compact Open Width Frame and mattress machine UCC572M which is electronically
controlled Double-Jersey Jacquard machine. Both of them are already proven
models in other countries and Terrot considering India as an important market
for their products promoted these two machines in a big way through ITME.
Terrot considered India ITME-2008 as an important show for
entry in Indian market. When asked about their experience with India ITME -2008,
Mr. Andreas Von Bismarck, Managing Director -Terrot GmbH, feeling that it will
be bit early to comment on the fair at this point of time and commented to
media that Terrot had good number of meeting and discussions and also they
observe good numbers of visitors in the last days of the show.
Himson Textiles
Himson Textiles is a prominent Indian player in the field of
textiles. The company deals in variety of machines like draw texturising
machines, twisting machine, rapier looms and knitting machines. Himson
participated in India ITME - 2008 with some other 450 Indian and 285 foreign
exhibitors to meet prospective visitors for their products.
Fibre2fashion
got chance to know views of Mr. Pratik Bachkaniwala, for India ITME-2008.
When asked about his experience of India ITME -2008's
visitors, facilities and other criteria, Mr. Bachkaniwala (Himson textiles)
replied "Our experience at India ITME-2008 was excellent looking into the
fact of geographical inconvenience and the effect of worldwide demand
contraction. The visitors were lesser in numbers compared to previous
exhibitions, but genuine investors, which are looking for expansions or new
projects, were present there. A lot of potential and existing customers had
made it a point to visit and explore new developments in the textile
engineering industry.
