ITMA ASIA + CITME combined show

ITMA ASIA + CITME combined show Over 1,000 exhibitors sign up to over 120,000 square metres

The textile machinery show – ITMA ASIA + CITME 2008 will be held in Shanghai from July 27 to 31. The city of Shanghai city will host the perfect blend in customer-supplier interaction, as the unique ITMA exhibition brand meets the largest and most important textile sector.

According to show organizers, existing stand space sold out months in advance, so the organisers have responded by reserving two extra halls, now being built, to meet soaring demand. And still there is a waiting list for stands, as over 1,000 exhibitors have already snapped up all but the smallest remaining spaces. The event is now certain to cover more than 120,000 square metres at the Shanghai New International Exhibition Centre (SNIEC) – the biggest textile machinery event ever to be held in China.

The ITMA ASIA + CITME 2008 show is jointly owned by the European textile machinery association CEMATEX and a Chinese consortium (CCPIT sub-council of Textile Industry, CTMA - China Textile Machinery Association -, and CIEC - China International Exhibition Centre Group Corp.). The partnership brings together the technological power of the CEMATEX countries in Europe and the massive market for textile innovation provided by Chinese textile producers.

ITMA ASIA + CITME 2008 is the one and only Asian exhibition to have CEMATEX and CTMA support. ITMA ASIA + CITME 2008 is scheduled to be staged every two years and details are currently being discussed for the 2010 edition.

Says CEMATEX Secretary General Maria Avery: “No other exhibition in China has the support of CEMATEX or CTMA, and we are delighted that both exhibitors and visitors have clearly acknowledged our ITMA/CITME brands by showing such great interest in the inaugural ITMA ASIA + CITME event. We are determined to provide the best possible exhibition, both for the textile machinery manufacturers and for their customers from China and South Asia who will visit the event.

“Following on from the successful ITMA ASIA exhibitions in Singapore and the

 recent ITMA 2007 in Munich, we are sure that ITMA ASIA + CITME 2008 will prove to be the perfect blend: the ITMA and CITME names which are synonymous with quality, the important Chinese market, and the ideal venue in Shanghai. Nothing else could match that, and we will be reinforcing this message at a series of visitor promotions over the coming months.”

Already, the world’s most influential and authoritative representative bodies for both textiles and textile machinery producers have thrown their weight behind ITMA ASIA + CITME 2008, as the only show in China that has their full support. These groups include: Japan Textile Machinery Association (JTMA – which is a special partner of the show), American Textile Machinery Association (ATMA), China Textile Machinery Association (CTMA), Korea Textile Machinery Association (KOTMA), Taiwan Association of Machinery Industry (TAMI) – as well as the nine CEMATEX member country associations in Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK.