IGATEX Pakistan rescheduled to July 2020

07 Feb '20

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IGATEX Pakistan, the 13th international garment & textile machinery exhibition and conference, originally scheduled for March, has been postponed due to outbreak of Coronavirus. The trade exhibition will now take place from July 1-4, 2020 at Expo Centre, Lahore. The show will include demonstrations of various cutting-edge industry tools & technology.

IGATEX is one of the largest and well-established garment and textile machinery and accessories exhibitions in South Asia. Providing a professionally enriching experience for textile machinery manufacturers, the exhibition will give them an opportunity to directly make their equipment available to quality buyers and decision makers in an exceedingly competitive global business environment.

Located at the crossroads of Asia, Pakistan has become a focal point for investors in the region, gained recognition as an important market among other textile manufacturing countries of the region. Pakistan is the 8th largest exporter of textile products in Asia. This sector contributes around 8.5 per cent to the GDP and provides employment to about 40 per cent of the 49 million workforce of the country.

Pakistan is the fourth largest producer of cotton with the third largest spinning capacity in Asia after China and India, and contributes 5 per cent to the global spinning capacity.

Fibre2Fashion News Desk (RKS)

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