More than 100 Italian exhibitors at ITMA and CITME
According to the Association of Italian Textile Machinery Manufacturers (ACIMIT) and the Italian Trade Commission (ICE), 110 Italian exhibitors will attend ITMA ASIA and CITME. The two events take place simultaneously in Shanghai from June 22-26.
These Italian exhibitors will cover 3,800 square-metres of space and 66 will present their products as part of the National Sector Group, organised by ACIMIT and ICE. The four Italian clusters will be in the spinning, non-wovens, weaving and finishing machinery halls.
ACIMIT president, Sandro Salmoiraghi, said: “In the wake of the positive results for the first edition, ITMA ASIA and CITME certainly confirms its status as the preeminent trade fair for textile machinery in Asia. And China is the largest global market for textile machinery; Chinese imports of machinery for 2008 exceeded EUR2.6 billion. This represents an additional plus for the success of ITMA ASIA + CITME.”
“The high number of Italian exhibitors, in spite of the economic downturn,” he continues, “bears witness to the fact that businesses have a positive outlook on the future. The Chinese market, for its part, represents the primary destination for Italian exports (over the first 11 months of 2009, the value of Italian machinery exported to China totalled EUR215 million, or around 21% of its total exports). Asia on the whole is a constant benchmark for our manufacturers, absorbing 49% of their sales abroad.”
It is estimated that for 2009 Italian exports of textile machinery exported to Asia totaled EUR575 million. Right behind China in terms of major Asian destinations are India, Turkmenistan and Iran.
