World's largest exhibition of textile machinery goes to Italy in 2015

01 Nov '10

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Mr James Chia, MPI Chairman, said: “We are privileged to be appointed to organise ITMA for the second time. The synergistic collaboration with CEMATEX and its association members will help to seamlessly put together a world-class showcase. By 2015, we will have 15 years of working relationship with CEMATEX. We are grateful to CEMATEX for the guidance and trust placed in us and we are fully committed to deliver the high quality that has been synonymous with the ITMA name over the last six decades.”

ITMA is the world's largest textile and garment machinery exhibition. It is held every four years in a different country (it is in fact a peripatetic show) and the event attracts a large number of highly qualified international visitors and top decision makers. Indeed, no major textile manufacturer decides to invest in new machinery without paying a visit to an ITMA show.

Preparations for the next ITMA event in Barcelona (22 to 29 September 2011) are well underway; over 1,000 exhibitors have already applied for space, and the exhibition is on course to achieve its target size of 100,000 square metres net.

CEMATEX is the umbrella association for the textile machinery manufacturers of 9 European countries (Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK). In addition to the European event CEMATEX also holds an ITMA show in Asia, currently in China every two years. Singapore hosted the first two ITMA ASIA shows in 2001 and 2005, while the subsequent events - ITMA ASIA + CITME - were held in Shanghai in 2008 and 2010, with the next one taking place in June 2012.

European Textile Machinery Manufacturers Association Online - CEMATEX

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