Tuyap and Teknik Exhibition have joined forces once more for the OTM Middle East Textile Machinery Exhibition that will bring leading technology brands and investors under one roof from 16-19 October at the Gaziantep Middle East Exhibition Centre.

Tüyap Tüm Fuarcılık and Teknik Fuarcılık, organisers of the ITM Texpo Eurasia textile machinery exhibition, this time became partners for a new meeting in Eastern and Southeastern Anatolia. ­The exhibition is expecting to welcome leading Turkish and international technology manufacturers from 25 different countries, with around 20,000 visitors attending the event.

Important region

Political and economical decisions made in Turkey in the recent years have influenced the Eastern and the Southeastern Anatolia regions centres of investment, organisers of the exhibition report.

Important textile centres in Turkey, such as Adıyaman, Diyarbakır, Osmaniye, Sanlıurfa, Mardin, Malatya and Nigde besides Adana, Gaziantep, Kayseri and Kahramanmaras started to see investments coming into these places.

Technologies to be displayed at the exhibition include:

• Flat and circular knitting machines
• Cotton and fibre preparation machines
• Yarn preparation machines and accessories
• Yarn winding machines
• Nonwoven technologies
• Weaving preparation technologies
• Weaving machines
• Carpet and tufting machines
• Printing – digital printing – finishing machines
• Textile chemicals
• Laboratory devices and quality control systems
• Embroidery and quilting machines
• Ready to wear machines
• CAD – CAM – CIM application and automation systems

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