Worldwide Support

Textile Industry (CITI) and its 16 affiliated member associations, as well as from the Milan-based Association of Italian Textile Machinery Manufacturers, has contributed to the organizers’ outreach efforts to textile representatives in India and in neighboring countries. In addition, the India Trade Promotion Organisation has approved the show; and the British Textile Machinery Association; Indo-German Chamber of Commerce and Industry, New Delhi; Swissmem Textile Machinery Division, Switzerland; and Textile Machinery Manufacturers and Accessories Manufacturers Association, Turkey, have consulted with organizers.


IMAG and FDI have promoted the event to potential attendees from India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Pakistan through press conferences, media partners including trade journals and the daily press, direct mailings, and travel packages tailored to visitors from significant textile manufacturing hubs in India and abroad. Major companies in the textile industry have included the show in their exhibition programs, the organizers note. Among the targeted visitor groups are representatives of textile, spinning, weaving, knitting and dyeing mills; clothing machinery manufacturers, wholesalers and importers; wholesalers, distributors and retail associations; the textile machinery industry; trades and crafts; and services, research and education. As of Textile World Asia ’s press time, 206 companies from around the world had expressed interest in exhibiting at the show.

According to organizers, TEXMAC will be scheduled biennially and the exhibition space of future editions may grow.

ATEXCON

CITI’s Asian Textile Conference (ATEXCON) will occur concurrently with TEXMAC on January 18 and 19 at the Hotel InterContinental, New Delhi. The conference’s second edition will build on the success of the December 2005 edition. Inaugural event attendees — including suppliers and buyers from India, Bangladesh, China and other Asian countries; European machinery manufacturers and consultants; and industry representatives from the United States and Europe — gathered to trade information about trends, prospects and the future of the Asian textile and apparel industry. Fiber and yarn, technical textiles, technology developments, home textiles, and garments and international trade were the subjects of business sessions addressing the premiere edition’s “ Emerging Trends in Asian Textiles” theme.

The theme of ATEXCON 2007 will be “Competing Through Productivity Gains.” On the first day, as part of that theme, attendees will hear speaker presentations and examine case studies about managing productivity in the textile industry, and productivity and cost competitiveness in the apparel sector; and will partake in discussions about those topics. A second business session will concentrate on technology developments, including smart fibers, the future of spinning capacities, technical textiles, weaving and processing innovations, and smart garments. Asian textile and apparel corporations also will present their findings and will lead discussions about growth through value addition during the third session.

On the second day of the conference, capacity building trends and requirements will be the focus of the fourth session. Attendees will discuss and listen to presentations about investment trends and financing requirements. The textile and apparel industries in Asia, the United States and EU; and the trends and prospects of intra-Asian trade flows will be among the topics examined during the final business session, focusing on international trade.