India ITME Society will host ITME AFRICA 2020 in Ethiopia in February next year. This is an unique, exclusive business event with the theme “Prosperity for AFRICA through Textile Technology”. The aim is to initiate a revolution in generating employment, encourage skills development, motivate entrepreneurship in textiles, ushering investment, economic growth and thus bringing new aspirations for a younger generation of African countries.

This business event, conceived and developed by India ITME Society, will showcase a complete range of textile and textile engineering with a total of 27 chapters. The broad categories covered are textiles, textile technology, textile engineering, financial institutions and allied segment.

ITME Africa hopes to be instrumental in establishing Africa’s textile footprint globally, to bring to the table complete solutions to textile industry development in the continent through affordable technology, international exposure, learning and experience, confluence of business houses, Investment opportunities, joint ventures, access to finance, networking with technocrats, educators, thus paving the way for a wave of knowledge, progress, growth and prosperity.

This event is expected to bring multiple growth effects for not only the textile industry but also airlines, hotels, transport, tourism etc. Despite an enormous untapped potential for trade expansion between India and Africa, India’s trade with Africa is concentrated in certain sectors and countries and is dominated by exports of primary commodities.