Karachi: Pakistan Readymade Garments Manufacturers & Exporters Association (PRGMEA) and Ecommerce Gateway Pakistan are jointly organising a three-day 17th Textile Asia- International Textile & Garments Machinery Trade Fair at Karachi Expo Centre from March 28, 2017.
PRGMEA Chief Coordinator Shaikh Muhammad Shafiq said that this trade fair is expected to be visited by 65,000 people from trade and corporate sector, as well as over1,500 foreign delegates. The focus of this trade fair is a value addition in the Textile industry to increase the export of our value-added textile and garment products.
This 3-days trade fair will be held from 28-30 March and has been termed as the Pakistan’s biggest B2B textile, garment, embroidery, digital printing machinery,and allied services Fair. More than 1,000 international brands will display their products in over 800 booths and foreign delegates from 27 countries mainly from Austria, China, Czech Republic, France, Germany, India, Italy, Korea, Taiwan, Turkey, UK, USA etc. will grace the event.
17th Textile Asia 2017 will also host Textile Asia Conference 2017 jointly organized with Textile Institute of Pakistan (TIP) on March 29, 2017 which will be led by renowned experts, and it will seek to engage stakeholders to comprehensively discuss the plan to streamline Pakistan’s textile industry and revisit and address the concerns of the companies.
Ecommerce Gateway Pakistan President Dr Khursheed Nizam said that Textile Asia is the only UFI (Paris) approved Textile trade fair in South Asia, which showcases immense buying-selling potential of textile, garment and allied industries. This fair introduces overseas suppliers of textile and garment materials, accessories/parts of machineries to the textile and garment industry of Pakistan, and complements their efforts for high quality value-added products. It also assists them to further develop their business in the export markets.