To fulfill the strong requests of many of its exhibitors and China textile enterprises visitors, the famous International Exhibition on Textile Industry in Shanghai (ShanghaiTex), will be changed into an annual event starting 2006 from its original cycle of once every two years.

ShanghaiTex is sponsored by the Shanghai Textile Holding (Group) Corporation, China Council for the Promotion of International Trade Shanghai Sub-Council and China Chamber of International Commerce Shanghai Chamber of Commerce. The Fair is organized by Shanghai Textile Technology Service & Exhibition Centre, Adsale Exhibition Services Ltd. and Shanghai International Exhibition Co. Ltd. Since the inception of the Fair in 1984, the organizers of ShanghaiTex have been working consistently in enlarging the scale of the Fair and maintaining an international standard for the exhibiting services. We are pleased to see that ShanghaiTex is now the largest textile machinery fair in Asia and one of the World’s most professional and authoritative textile events.

ShanghaiTex 2005 (The 11th International Exhibition on Textile Industry in Shanghai), held from June 3 to 7, 2005 at the Shanghai New International Expo Centre, gathered over 1,400 worldwide renowned suppliers from 23 countries and regions (including the participation of 10 country/ group pavilions). A visitor flow of 121,516 trade buyers from over 60 countries and regions were attracted to this mega show, which occupied an exhibition area of 100,660 square meters. However, due to the limited exhibiting area of the venue in Shanghai, about 100 companies did not get space allocation to their applications to the show while several hundreds of exhibitors had to exhibit in 25,000 square meters of temporary halls, which undermined the safety and effectiveness of their participations.

East China is one of the most prosperous textile production bases in China. The textile industry in East China has gradually developed into a blooming stage with Shanghai as the “dragon-head”, complemented by Zhejiang and Jiangsu Provinces. This results in a very high expectation on ShanghaiTex as a platform to showcase advanced textile technology and equipment. After the successful completion of ShanghaiTex 2005, there were numerous requests from textile enterprises which expressed their strong wishes in having an annual ShanghaiTex to enable them to have a timely review of the latest and innovative textile technology and equipment close to their production base. In response to the pressing demand of the textile industry and the request for better exhibiting environment from a few hundred exhibitors, ShanghaiTex will be held annually starting from 2006. ShanghaiTex will continue to focus on setting a high international standard for the Fair and to help in speeding up the brand building of China’s textile industries.

ShanghaiTex 2006, the 12th International Exhibition on Textile Industry, will be staged from July 5 to 8, 2006 at the Shanghai New International Expo Centre, PR China. As less than 50,000 square meters of exhibiting space will only be available, ShanghaiTex 2006 will emphasis on the most advanced textile technologies from local and overseas. It is expected that the show will help the local textile enterprises to accelerate the modernization of their equipment.

ShanghaiTex 2007 will continue to be held in June 2007 with a forecast exhibition area of 120,000 square meters, and it will be the 13th edition of the Event.

Textile World