The Iranian Minister of industries and Mines recently inaugurated the 16th Home Textile, Machineries, Raw Materials, Embroidery Machineries and Textile Products Expo (Irantextile 2010) in Tehran.
Besides a large number of companies from Iran, 138 foreign companies from countries including Syria, Taiwan, Indonesia, India, Austria, South Korea, Switzerland, Turkey, Thailand, Japan, China, Italy and Germany too participated in the event.
The number of participants has gone up by 55 percent this year as over the last year, while 33 percent more space too was made available for organizing the event.