Premier textile machinery event ITMA ASIA + CITME 2008 in Shanghai

27 Apr '06

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CEMATEX (Comité Européen des Constructeurs de Machines Textiles) is an organisation comprising 9 national European textile machinery associations in the free market economy.

CEMATEX is the owner of ITMA, the world's largest international textile machinery exhibition announces that , CEMATEX (the European Committee of Textile Machinery Manufacturers), CTMA (China Textile Machinery Association), CCPIT-Tex (the Sub Council of Textile Industry, China Council for the Promotion of International Trade) and CIEC (China Exhibition Centre Group Corporation) are pleased to announce that they have signed a long term co-operation, starting with a combined textile machinery show in 2008.

This first combined exhibition, “ITMA ASIA + CITME 2008” will be held at the Shanghai New International Expo Centre in Shanghai, PRC from 27 to 31 July 2008.

The partners have agreed in principle to hold a combined ITMA ASIA + CITME exhibition every two years in Shanghai, and it is anticipated therefore that the second show will be held in 2010.

CEMATEX launched its ITMA ASIA show in 2001, followed by a second show in partnership with JTMA (Japan Textile Machinery Association) in 2005, both of these being held in Singapore.

CEMATEX is also the owner of the ITMA show which has been held in various European locations every 4 years since its launch back in 1951, the 15th edition taking place in Munich, Germany in September 2007.

The CITME show (owned by CTMA) was launched in 1988 and has to date been held every 2 years in Beijing, PRC, the 10th edition being held there in October 2006.

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