Italy has been chosen to host the seventeenth edition of ITMA, the world’s largest exhibition of textile machinery. The show will be held at the Fiera Milano Rho exhibition centre in Milan from November 12-19, 2015.
Fiera Milano won the international bid organised by CEMATEX, which owns the ITMA show, beating three other shortlisted bidders from an original list of 12. The exhibition returns to Milan after 20 years.
“The award of ITMA 2015 to Fiera Milano is the clearest sign that by working together we can achieve a very competitive bid," said Sandro Salmoiraghi, president of ACIMIT, the association of Italian textile machinery manufacturers.
"I thank Fiera Milano for all the efforts they have made to win the right to host the event. I thank CEMATEX for having once again chosen Italy, and also all the Italian textile machinery manufacturers for their strong support of ACIMIT during the bidding process."
Preparations for the next ITMA event in Barcelona September 22-29, 2011, are well underway. More than 1,000 exhibitors have already applied for space. The show attracted 118,000 visitors from 151 countries during the 2007 edition in Munich, with more than 80% travelling from outside Germany.