CIFS2013 Sri Lanka Colombo International Fabric Exhibition

Name of the exhibition:

Scope of exhibition: synthesis

(woven / knitted), natural fiber fabrics (woven / knitted), yarn and fiber, fancy finishing, home textiles, accessories, CAD/CAM and electronic commerce.

Number of exhibitors: 200 booths are expected.

Exhibition brief:

CEMS Exhibition Group has successfully held the TEXTECH Bangladesh international textile and Garment Machinery Exhibition for 12 consecutive years in 2011. Now the US headquarters of CEMS exhibition group, together with CEMS exhibition group India Co., will jointly organize the second Sri Lanka international textile and Garment Machinery Industry Exhibition on March 2012 1-3 in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

The exhibition will be one of the successful exhibition series of Bangladesh Textile Industry Exhibition (TEXTECH). We will invite senior executives from the textile and garment machinery industry, CEO, product manager, professionals, agents, manufacturers, importers and exporters and trade personages to visit the exhibition.

The exhibition will provide an excellent opportunity for enterprises to enter the South Asian Sri Lanka market and provide one-stop service for the professional audience. It will provide exhibitors with an excellent platform for direct communication between buyers and sellers.

Market background:

CIFS integrates Sri Lanka covering yarn, fabric and textile products.

The target audience is from Sri Lanka's entire textile and garment industry.

The textile and garment industry accounted for 70% of the country's exports and exports amounted to US $5 billion, and most of the country's yarn and clothing fabrics were dependent on imports.

Sri Lanka is closely following India, Bangladesh and Vietnam, becoming a big exporter of garments.

Investment in textile and garment industry is increasing.

The Sri Lanka international textile and garment industry exhibition will provide one-stop service for the textile and apparel industry. It will provide exhibitors an excellent platform for direct exchange between buyers and sellers.

After China's accession to the WTO, textile and garment machinery has developed rapidly and its quality has improved rapidly. Its market share has expanded rapidly in Asian and African developing countries.

Textile and garment machinery imported from China by India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka and Vietnam and other ASEAN countries has increased substantially.

In the past, most of the textile and garment machinery in these countries were imported from Japan.

Textile enterprises in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka in South Asia generally believe that the quality of China's textile and garment machinery has been greatly improved. They like to buy Chinese textile and garment machinery.

In 2006, the delegation of Sri Lanka's garment export industry visited Shanghai, China. The head of the delegation, Sri Lanka export garment association, said that China's cheap textile machinery and accessories brought opportunities to Sri Lanka far greater than the threat posed to the garment industry.

He believes that China's cheap and fine textile and garment machinery and accessories will create new business opportunities for Sri Lanka's textile and garment exports.

The Sri Lanka textile and Apparel Association has decided to set up a specialized agency in Shanghai to help the importers of the country establish long-term cooperative relations with Chinese textile and garment machinery exporters and expand the import volume.

In the past, most of the machinery used in the textile and garment manufacturing industry came from Japan.

With China's entry into the WTO, China's textile and garment machinery is developing rapidly and will become the main supplier of textile and garment machinery in India, Bangladesh, Vietnam and Sri Lanka.

Capital of Sri Lanka:

The capital of Sri Lanka is Colombo, the largest city in Sri Lanka, the national political, economic, cultural and pportation center.

Colombo is an important port in the India ocean and the world famous artificial harbor.

Located on the southwest coast of Sri Lanka Island, it borders on the India ocean and the north of the island is bounded by the valley of the river.

India ocean's East and West shipping must be visited. It is known as the "Asian gateway" and "Eastern crossroads". It is one of the world's largest artificial harbours and one of the longest artificial harbors. The coastline is 16 kilometers long.

Colombo's traditional economy is mainly port and service industries.

The new manufacturing factories are mostly built on the outskirts of the city. Although the industry is not very developed, they have textile, tobacco, machinery, metals, food, chemical industries and other general machinery and automobile assembly repair plants.

The Colombo Harbour is a hub of pport in India ocean and an entrepot for Europe, the Far East and Australia.