Ernesto Maurer appointed as Cematex president

25 Jun '20

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Pic: Ernesto Maurer

Ernesto Maurer has been appointed as the new president of Cematex, the European committee of textile machinery manufacturers. Maurer’s four-year term of office will cover three major events in the pivotal ITMA series of textile technology exhibitions scheduled for Europe and Asia. Maurer was elected at the Cematex General Assembly, on June 12.

Maurer is president of the Swiss Textile Machinery Association since 2015, serving during the same period as a member of the Cematex board of directors and its 1st vice-president for the past four years.

Also elected at the general assembly were 1st vice-president Mikael Äremann (TMAS, Sweden) and 2nd vice-president Charles Bauduin (Symatex, Belgium).

Cematex is the official representative body for Europe’s national textile machinery associations and has been in charge of organising the ITMA exhibitions, since inaugural show in 1951, and subsequent editions in both Europe, Asia and China.

Over the next four years, Maurer will lead Cematex through a challenging period globally, taking in three major events. ITMA Asia + CITME will be held in Shanghai from June 12-16, 2021, postponed from October 2020 because of Covid-19. This will be followed in 2022 by the next ITMA Asia + CITME in the same city, and then by ITMA 2023 in Milan (June 8-14).

“The post Covid-19 period will have a tremendous impact on the textile industry of today and tomorrow. Cematex is determined to maintain its leadership role for exhibitions, carrying the ITMA brand to partners worldwide today and in the future, including a focus on increasingly-digital opportunities,” Maurer said.

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