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and orders. In their opinion ITMA-<br />
<strong>2011</strong> surpassed their expectations.<br />
Several of the OEMs had big and<br />
expensive stands and presented machines<br />
in operation. It is reported<br />
that around 47 per cent of the visitors<br />
were from India. This confirms<br />
the fact that India is going to be the<br />
textile capital in the coming years.<br />
In my opinion there would have<br />
been around 5,<strong>00</strong>0-6,<strong>00</strong>0 visitors<br />
from India. Majority of them<br />
were visiting knitting, weaving and<br />
processing stalls. In the spinning<br />
area, the number of visitors from<br />
India was much less. Visitors from<br />
south India too numbered less than<br />
usual as the present condition is not<br />
encouraging enough. Majority of<br />
the visitors who wanted to know the<br />
itMA <strong>2011</strong> [<strong>exclusive</strong> feature]<br />
Mr. Viking Eswaran, Managing Director, Viking Group and Mr. Chandran of Eveready Spinning Mills,<br />
along with Mr. n. Subramaniam<br />
latest developments visited the trade<br />
fair and went on a sight-seeing trip<br />
in Barcelona and Europe.<br />
Oerlikon Schlafhorst presented<br />
a new rotor spinning machine with<br />
single drive motor technology instead<br />
of driving with belts. Almost<br />
all the main OEMs of textile printing<br />
placed the latest developments<br />
of inkjet printing machines at the<br />
center of their offer. New actors,<br />
mainly from paper printing business,<br />
decided to move from textile<br />
printing business. It is quite clear<br />
that the textile printing machine<br />
market is shifting to ink-jet.<br />
Mayer & Cie exhibited its new circular<br />
knitting machine which makes<br />
knitted fabric directly from roving<br />
without the necessity of spinning<br />
the yarn. There was always a huge<br />
crowd in the company stall. Pylong<br />
exhibited in its stall the same type<br />
of machine. These machines are still<br />
under development or getting finetuned<br />
to be ready for marketing in<br />
future.<br />
Overall the exhibitors are happy<br />
that their presence helped to establish<br />
their brands and the quality of<br />
visitors was also very high.<br />
Regarding the exhibition venue,<br />
one could say that it is one of the<br />
best in Europe. Indian ITMA officials<br />
conducted a road show on<br />
ITME-2012, and I am sure it would<br />
be a great event. Let us hope all the<br />
present crises in the textile industry<br />
would be over by then.<br />
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