#India ITME 2012

2012-11-13

India ITME 2012 - India’s largest & Most Prestigious Textile Technology Exhibition to be held in Mumbai

Road Show held at Ahmedabad, India (c) 2012 India ITME

INDIA ITME 2012, the 9th in the series and the most anticipated textile technology show in India and Asia, is scheduled to be held from 2nd – 7th December 2012 at the Bombay Convention & Exhibition Centre, Goregaon (E), Mumbai, India.

With few weeks to this mega show, there is a palpitable excitement in the air. The organizers, exhibitors, visitors, vendors, all are gearing up towards this once-in-four-year trend setting textile technology exhibition. With 800+ exhibitors, 8 new country participation, many delegations from new textile markets, eminent technocrats and textile experts speaking at the Seminar, this event will be the largest so far India has ever hosted with the complete exhibition space of Bombay Convention & Exhibition Centre booked from mid-November 2012 to December 10, 2012.

Dr. Christian Schindler, Director General, ITMF, Zurich, Dr. Peter Dinsdale, World President, The Textile Institute, Manchester, UK; Prof. Dr. Roshan Shishoo, Director, Shishoo Consulting AB, Sweden; Prof. Subash Anand, University of Bolton, UK; Dr. Malcolm Kirkup, UK; Mr. R.K. Jha, Director-in-Charge, GIFT City, Ahmedabad; Dr. Chandan Chatterjee, Director, CED & GM, iNDEXTb, Gujarat; and Mr. TCA Ranganathan, Chairman & Managing Director, Export-Import Bank of India, Mumbai have confirmed their presence during the ITME technology seminar as esteemed speakers.

Mr. Sudhir Mankad, Chairman, GIFTCL is the Chief Guest and Mr. Mukesh Kumar, MD, iNDEXTb is the Guest of Honour for Gujarat Day celebration on 3^rd December 2012.

The event boasts of 6 new product launches and special seminar focused on textile chemical sector organized by most prestigious University Department for Chemical Technology (UDCT). Today, it is a proud moment for Indian Textile Industry that it has grown its potential as a textile market and a manufacturing hub globally, that it is hosting a textile machinery exhibition show of such a large scale whereby apart from the 800 confirmed exhibitors, more than 400 companies are waitlisted for space. The bookings for this event closed 15 months back in 2011.

In a very interesting development, for the first time, the textile machinery exhibition is supported by State and Central Government. The organizers are making many arrangements to ensure convenience for visitors in conjunction with the local city governing bodies.

India ITME Society, a non-profit, apex exhibition body, takes its responsibility to serve the industry very seriously and has left no stone unturned to organize the 9th India International Textile Machinery Exhibition from 2^nd – 7th December, 2012 in Mumbai. India ITME 2012 is expected to bring a very unique and unparallel opportunity/platform to serve the textile industry of the World, to do business networking, explore new products and technologies, new partnerships, joint ventures, manufacturing opportunities and discovering new markets across the globe.

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