Saurabh Patel, the Energy Minister of Gujarat inaugurated ITMACH India 2019 on December 5, 2019. The textile technology show is being hosted in Gandhinagar’s Helipad Exhibition Centre from December 05-08, 2019.
The exhibition, organised by K & D ITMACH Expositions, helps the industry to adopt modern technology. The show offers an effective networking and business-matching platform to the industry.
According to Arvind Semlani, Director, K & D ITMACH Expositions, “The Indian textile industry has continuously invested in innovations and technology up-gradations as global opportunities open up. While the spinning sector is facing a challenging situation due to US-China trade war, it has also brought some new opportunities to weaving, knitting, dyeing, printing & wet processing and garment sectors. Global brands and retailers are looking for Indian suppliers with economy of scale plant with state-of-the-art process technology. Therefore, the Indian weaving, processing and garmenting sectors are still in investment mode and resource efficient technologies are much in demand.”
Patel visited several stalls at the show and encouraged entrepreneurs for their efforts. He was impressed by Picanol’s latest weaving machinery - AirjetOmniplus- i loom with Smartshed which is being demonstrated live with denim fabric and operates at production speed above 1000 rpm! P Kasiviswanathan, Director, Picanol explained the innovative features of this latest weaving machine, which is most suited to the Indian weaving sector.
He also visited the booth of India’s leading digital printing solutions company Stovec, Jay Instruments, True Colors, Reckon India,Rimtex,Itema Weaving, Staubli, Texfab among others.
