Columbia’s main textile trade event, Colombiatex de las Américas, will be held in Medellin, from January 25 to 27, 2022. The event will be attended by 19 Italian textile machinery manufacturers and organized by the Italian Trade Agency and ACIMIT, the Association of Italian Manufacturers of Textile Machinery.

In the first nine months of 2021, Italy exported textile machines worth €9.3 million. This was a growth of 130 per cent, not only compared to the value recorded last year, but also to that of 2019. More than half of the demand for Italian machinery in Colombia was for finishing machines.

Compared to previous editions of the event, states there were greater number of Italian exhibitors, although the health emergency is far from over and there is great uncertainty characterizing the world economic scenario, says Alessandro Zucchi, President, ACIMIT.