After eight years, ITMA 2023, the main trade fair in the textile machinery sector, returns to Italy, in the spaces of Fiera Milano-Rho from 8 to 14 June). An important opportunity to enhance the excellence of Italian technology and to stimulate new investments in the textile supply chain.
The fair is promoted by Acimit, an association that brings together Italian textile machinery manufacturers and organized by Cematex, a committee that brings together the textile machinery associations of nine countries at European level (Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and UK). A traveling fair which has been held every 4 years since 1951 and which involves an average of 150,000 visitors.
A fundamental showcase for new operational solutions, a real market place able to offer participants extraordinary business opportunities.
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The event represents a unique opportunity for the Italian textile machinery industry, due to the high number of exhibitors and the tens of thousands of visitors it usually attracts. ICE has prepared, in agreement with Acimit, a project aimed at promoting the Italian textile machinery sector through the enhancement of the three drivers that distinguish it: technology, digitization and sustainability. The incoming expects 140 top foreign buyers from 25 countries, while a communication campaign has been launched both in Italy and abroad to increase the presence of professional operators from all over the world at the event.
Various training events, focused above all on the innovations presented by Italian companies at ITMA 2023 https://itma.com/, with particular attention to the theme of sustainable technologies and digitization processes.
During the fair, the award ceremony of the Italian Textile Technology Awards, organized by ICE and Acimit, will take place. The 18 most deserving students from the textile universities present in those countries where the Italian Textile Training Technological Centers are active or are still being created will be awarded: Bangladesh, India, Mongolia, Pakistan, Peru and Vietnam.
Transforming the world of textiles
“Transforming the world of textiles”: this is the claim on which the 2023 edition is preparing to open its doors. Always an event characterized by the high level of innovation of the technological proposals, at ITMA 2023 we will talk above all about sustainability and digitization. Alessandro Zucchi, president of Acimit: “The textile supply chain is moving towards increasingly competitive production processes, where the reduction of production costs, through a lower consumption of water, energy and raw materials, is combined with attention to the environment. Equally important is the digital transformation of companies, a process, that of digitization, which will allow technology suppliers and their customers to operate in an increasingly constructive and efficient way”.