The Overseas Yarn Zone will house 132 suppliers from countries & regions including Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Korea, Lithuania, Nepal, Pakistan, Singapore, Taiwan, Turkey, the US, Uzbekistan and Vietnam. Yarn Expo Autumn is a platform that has shown reliable growth and expansion over the years, making it an important date on the calendar and a popular choice for leading global suppliers to reveal their latest collections and innovations. This zone will include:

India Pavilion: 55 exhibitors with a huge variety of products, including cotton, fancy synthetic yarn, Lysell linen, Modal linen, Tencel, viscose, polyester and more. Highlighted companies include GTN Patspin Group of Companies, Lahoti Overseas, Premier Cotton Textiles and RSWM Limited.

The India Pavilion remains optimistic about the market, having increased in size by 40% last year. At Yarn Expo Autumn 2018, Dr. Siddhartha Rajagopal, Executive Director of Texprocil (organiser of the India Pavilion) commented, “It’s important to be here, the fair reflects market demand and everyone comes here twice a year. Yarn Expo attracts many Chinese buyers but people from all over the world also come here. It’s the only fair in China that we attend, we see a lot of potential here.”

Pakistan Zone: 15 leading suppliers can be found here, including Abtex International, who will showcase their new hybrid colour mixing yarns and fancy yarns, Fabcot International with cotton yarns and greige, as well as Hussain Mills Ltd, who will offer organic cotton.

At Yarn Expo Spring 2019, in March, regular exhibitors Fazal Cloth Mills commented, “We’ve been coming here for the last nine years, and this fair is always expanding. It’s very popular and it’s a platform that gathers innovation. Cotton from Pakistan is of very good quality and so we feel optimistic and confident in our product demand.”

Birla Satellite: 15 exhibitors will be included in this pavilion, including Birla Cellulose and their environmentally-friendly regenerated cellulose fibres. Birla Cellulose is known worldwide for soft and eco-friendly viscose fibres, including Birla Viscose, Birla Modal, Birla Spunshades and Birla Excel.

“We use Yarn Expo as a marketing platform to tell our own innovative story. We are happy to see that our peers in this hall also have yarn and fibre innovations, which are more relatable to our own brand,” said Mr Manohar Samuel, Senior President of Marketing & Business Development at Grasim Industries Ltd (of the Aditya Birla Group) at Yarn Expo Spring 2019.