• Other major trade fairs include SIMATEX from November 11th to 14^th - 2008, FESPA World Expo Asia-Pacific 2008, Bangkok, from 28th 30th November, featuring innovations in textile printing technologies, JIMA 2008 - Apparel Machinery Trade Show, MEGATEX Pakistan 2008, April 15 - 18 , Beijing International Sewing Machinery Show (BISMA) 2008, INLEGMASH 2008 in Russia.
  
  Some major conferences and seminar in the year 2008 include French-Egyptian Seminar on Textile Machinery at Cario, ATNT-2008 - International conference on Advances in Textiles, Machinery, Nonwoven and Technical Textiles at Coimbatore etc.
  
  In summary, year 2008 had seen many important happenings and changes in textile machinery field. Although it had been a year of apprehension and disappointment, the industry faced all the challenges with positive attitude and tried to convert roadblocks into stepping stones by finding out various opportunities for sales and business.

References:

• http://machinist.in/
• http://www.picanolgroup.com