2008 International Textile Machinery Exhibition Launched In Shanghai

2008 China International Textile Machinery Exhibition and ITMA Asia textile machinery exhibition was held in Shanghai New International Expo Center in from July 27th to 31st.

The exhibition has an exhibition area of 126 thousand and 500 square meters, and is attended by nearly 1400 enterprises from more than 30 countries. It is the largest textile machinery exhibition in China, and it is also the largest scale, the most professional and the highest technology level textile machinery exhibition in Asia.

German National Textile Machinery Exhibition Group held a press conference on July 26th.

The exhibition revealed at a press conference that according to the statistics of the German Federal Statistical Bureau, in 2007, the total export volume of German textile machinery manufacturing industry amounted to 3 billion 881 million euros, accounting for 59.6% of the total exports of six markets in China, Turkey, India, Italy, the United States and Czech.

Asia has become a major export market for the German textile machinery industry. In 2007, its exports amounted to 1 billion 850 million euros, accounting for more than half of the total export volume of German textile machinery, of which exports to China amounted to 1 billion euros, exceeding 1/4 of Germany's total exports.