ACIMIT members to display machinery at Colombiatex 2019

08 Jan '19

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At Colombiatex 2019, Colombia’s major textile trade fair, to be held in Medellin from January 22-24, 2019, Italy’s primary textile machinery manufacturers will be on hand in the common area jointly set up by the Italian Trade Agency and ACIMIT. ACIMIT is the Association of Italian Textile Machinery Manufacturers, comprising of around 300 companies.

Overall, there will be fifteen Italian textile companies exhibiting in the common space, all ACIMIT associated members that include Arioli, Beschi, Biancalani, Btsr, Caipo, Corino, Crosta, Fadis, Ferraro, Itema, Mcs, Ratti, Sicam, Tecnorama, and Ugolini, according to a press release by ACIMIT.

Colombia’s textile and garments industry has seen a strong period of growth over the past few years, thanks to the signing of a number of international trade agreements and its developing fashion sector. Colombian textile manufacturers have thus been long time partners of Italian textile technology suppliers. The development of the local textile and garments industry needs a technological upgrading, entailing an increase in demand for foreign machinery. Italy has benefitted from this growing demand, in its dominant position as one of the world’s major producers of textile machinery. Indeed, Italian exports to Colombia in 2017 amounted to €10 million, and over the first seven months of 2018, sales of Italian textile machinery to Colombia exceeded €4 million.

“The ongoing presence of Italian machinery producers at recent editions of Colombiatex confirms the willingness of Colombia’s textile sector to continue a growth process that also requires high quality technology, such as Italian machinery manufacturers are capable of providing,” ACIMIT president Alessandro Zucchi said. (GK)

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