ITMA Asia + CITME 2016 will be held at the new National Exhibition and Convention Centre (NECC) in Shanghai on October 21-25, 2016. The upcoming session will hit new record in term of scale with total exhibition space exceeding 170,000 square meters.

It is said that the exhibition has attracted more than 1,600 exhibitors from 27 countries and regions including mainland China, Germany, Italy, Japan, Switzerland, Taiwan, Republic of Korea, Belgium, India and Spain. Almost all well-known companies of the textile machinery circle at home and abroad will be present at the event. Exhibition space by product category is in the following order: spinning & chemical fiber machinery and related; printing & dyeing machinery and dyes; weaving and weaving preparation machinery; knitting machinery; braiding machinery; embroidery machinery and clothing machinery; nonwoven machinery and others. In which, more exhibition space have been sold than the 2014 session for nonwoven machinery and printing & dyeing machinery.

Exhibits on the upcoming exhibition will cover 17 categories, while automatic, digital and intelligent machinery and equipment will be the highlights. The“six intelligent production lines”(intelligent spinning line, intelligent polyester filament spinning line, intelligent knitting line, intelligent printing & dyeing line, intelligent nonwoven production line and intelligent garment sewing process) mentioned in the 13 th “Five-year Plan” of the textile industry will be among the highlights.