Friday, November 28, 2008

A View Through The Lens : ITMA Asia + CITME 2008




Post quota era has brought sea changes in textile industry. To add to the competition resulted thereby, the urge for advance technology and state-of-the-art as well as globalisation remains the challenges for Asian textile makers. The obvious need to modernise operations in order to compete globally has spawned huge investment in quality machinery, especially, for China that has become a major manufacturing centre for textile products and the world's most dynamic market having one third of the global textile production capacity.


Envisaging this lucrative market opportunities for leading textile machinery manufacturers, a combined show ITMA ASIA + CITME 2008 came to existence to be held every two years in China, starting from 27 July 2008.


Sharing the objective behind support to this trade event, the policy maker and welfare activities planner in the textile trade of China, Mr Du Yuzhou, President of CNTAC (China National Textile and Apparel Council) comments: "For the 11th Five-Year Plan (from 2006-2010), China's textile industry will be focused on technical innovation and creation, development of Chinese own brands and increasing the added value of our products. All these must be carried out with advanced equipment. It is based on Chinas demand of advanced equipment and the outstanding achievements made by European textile machinery manufacturers, that we have decided to combine these two important events ITMA ASIA and CITME."


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