ITMA - the International Exhibition of Textile Machinery - has been held every four years since 1951. It is the world's largest international textile and garment machinery exhibition, an event which is owned by CEMATEX. ITMA is recognised as the Olympics of the textile and garment machinery industry.

Organised by MP International Pvt Ltd, ITMA 2011 was held at Barcelona, Spain from 22 to 29 September 2011.



ITMA 2011 Highlights

• The Event has drawn attention to overall 100,000 visitors from 138 countries
• 1350 Exhibitors from 45 countries participated in the event.
• Some 7000 participants attended 5 power packed conferences
• 153 Associations from 63 countries supported the event
• 53 supporting media from 19 countries covered the event.
• Over 50 delegation groups from 27 countries participated in the event.

New Index of Products

A new Index of Product “Fibre & Yarn” was added in the ITMA 2011 for the first time. This “ Fibre & Yarn” index includes-Natural Fibres, Man-made Fibres, Technical Fibres, Natural Yarns, Synthetic Yarns and Technical Yarns.

The other Index of Products were:

• Finishing, Dyestuffs & Chemicals
• Knitting & Hosiery, Embroidery & Braiding, Garment & Textile Processing and Logistics
• Nonwovens Production & Testing
• Recycling & Services for Textile Industry Research & Education
• Spinning & Testing
• Weaving
• Winding & Texturing, Equipment for Plant Ops and Software

Conferences @ ITMA 2011 :

More than 7000 participants attended 5 power packed conferences along with ITMA. These conferences were:

1. World Textile Summit (WTS)
2. Sustainable Textile Leaders Roundtable
3. Textile Dyestuff and Chemical Leaders Forum
4. IFAI Advanced Textiles Europe 2011
5. Young Entrepreneurs of Textile International Meeting

Next ITMA 2015 will be organized at Milan, Italy from 12-19 November.