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Italian Textile Machinery at Techtextil North America 2012

23 Mar '12

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At 2012 edition of Techtextil North America (from 24 to 26 April in Atlanta) ACIMIT, the Association of Italian Textile Machinery Manufacturers, has organized a Meeting Point where some Italian machinery manufacturers involved in the production of machines for technical textiles will show their innovative solutions. These companies are - Cormatex, Dell'Orco & Villani, Loptex, Ratti Luino, Saspe.

For the Italian textile, machinery industry Techtextil North America will be a further occasion to show the most updated technology for technical and innovative textiles sector to potential customers.

US market for specialty fabrics and technical textiles registered a recovery in 2011 and the projections for 2012 are quite positive.

In addition, Italian exports to US market testify the will of American textile customers to invest in updated equipment. In 2011, Italian sales of textile machinery reached a value of about 68 million euro (i.e. 49 million US dollar) with and increase of 84% on 2010.

In 2011 the most relevant share of the Italian machines exported to US market was for accessories (33%), followed by spinning machinery (20%) and finishing one (20%).

Background on Italy's textile machinery industry and ACIMIT

ACIMIT represents an industrial sector comprising around 300 companies (employing close to 13,000 people) and producing machinery for an overall value of about 2.7 billion euros, with exports amounting to 80% of total sales. The high number of countries in which Italian machinery is sold evidences the quality of Italian textile technology: around 130 countries worldwide.

Creativity, technology, reliability and quality are the characteristics, which have made Italy a global leader in the manufacturing of textile machinery.

Association of Italian Textile Machinery Manufacturers