A common thread for a better overview

CEMATEX - the European Textile Machinery Manufacturers Association - is making ITMA 2007 more attractive than ever for exhibitors and visitors by adding new products and by extending or reorganising existing exhibition categories. In addition, a newly hierarchical numbering system will make the ITMA product index more transparent.

CEMATEX has set the course for ensuring that the range of products and services exhibited at ITMA is more oriented to the needs of the textile and clothing industry. The product index has been expanded to include new products such as RFID systems, and the sector for transport and storage technology will be presented in greater detail. There will also be a new sector for "software systems for knowledge management, production management and supply-chain management". The ITMA exhibitors in these sectors offer their customers the latest developments for ensuring the global flow of goods and merchandise in networks together with their partners in the textile chain in the requisite quality and on time.

ITMA presents the entire range of machinery for the textile and clothing industry, especially machines for the production of nonwovens and technical textiles. The nonwovens sector occupied a separate hall for the first time ever at ITMA 2003. In Munich, this sector will have a perfect location between the spinning preparation and finishing halls. This will allow exhibitors at ITMA 2007 to give visitors from the nonwovens industry a look at preliminary and subsequent production steps in a concentrated manner.
New entries for nonwovens machines such as machines for aerodynamic web formation have been added to the index, which also includes entries for other special weaving and warp knitting machines used to produce technical textiles. Companies that want to produce smart textiles will find the above-mentioned transponder technology interesting from the point of view of integrating them into textiles.

In all sectors, textile machines that used to be included under 'Other...' are now listed separately. Examples include circular knitting machines for seamless items and foreign fibre/part separators for spinning preparation. This should also help visitors and exhibitors to locate one another more quickly.

Discussions with textile companies have revealed that expectations regarding the range of accessories and spare parts are as high as ever. With this in mind, this sector has been restructured to provide greater depth. For example, online measuring and testing systems for the various sectors are now listed separately.

The sector for equipment for recycling, waste reduction and pollution prevention is more clearly structured and now complements the range of environmentally compatible and energy-efficient textile machines.

Safety products are also a new index category. They include equipment for workers such as protective clothing or hearing protection as well as safety-related machine components. Manufacturers of these products for the textile industry qualify for admission to ITMA 2007, as do companies that produced drives and control units or dyestuffs and chemicals for the industry.

The sector for machines and accessories for the clothing industry has also been restructured and updated to reflect the state of the art. As was the case at ITMA 2003, training and research organisations that deal with textiles, technical textiles and clothing are eligible to participate as exhibitors.

The new hierarchical numbering system that was introduced is supposed to enhance the clarity and transparency of the product index.

About ITMA

In the halls of the New Munich Trade Fair Centre, the latest products of the international textile machinery industry will be presented on 13 - 20 September 2007. The European umbrella organisation CEMATEX, which comprises nine European member associations, is the owner of ITMA and has selected the Textile Machinery Association of the VDMA to engage Messe München to hold the event in 2007. This leading international trade fair of the textile machinery industry takes place at intervals of four years at different exhibition locations and attracts around 100,000 visitors and 1,300 exhibitors from all over the world. ITMA 2007 will occupy the entire exhibition area of the New Munich Trade Fair Centre.

About Messe München International (MMI)

Messe München International (MMI, Munich Trade Fairs International Group) is one of the world's leading trade-fair companies. It organises around 40 trade fairs for capital and consumer goods, and key high-tech industries. Each year over 30,000 exhibitors from more than 100 countries, and over two million visitors from more than 200 countries take part in the events in Munich. In addition, MMI organises trade fairs in Asia, Russia, the Middle East and South America.

For further information, go to: www.itma.com

Contact person at Messe München GmbH
Sabine Zimmermann, Manager Communications ITMA 2007, Messegelände, 81823 Munich
Tel.: (+49 89) 949 -20256; Fax: (+49 89) 949-20259
E-mail: Sabine.Zimmermann@messe-muenchen.de

Contact person in the Textile Machinery Association of VDMA
Klaus Gottwald, Press Officer for the Textile Machinery Association in VDMA, ITMA 2007
Tel. (+49 69) 66 03-12 64, Fax (+49 69) 66 03-22 64
E-mail: Klaus.Gottwald@vdma.org


Posted: January 2006

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