The event is an important business to business forum serving Africa’s ever-growing textiles and apparel industries. © Stitch & Tex Expo – Afro Edition

Africa’s ultimate textile technologies trade fair Stitch & Tex Expo – Afro Edition will organise two consecutive trade fairs in March next year. The first trade fair is dedicated to garment processing technologies including sewing, embroidery, fabrics and their accessories, while the second is dedicated to textile processing technologies including knitting, weaving, spinning, and dyeing machinery, technologies and spare parts. The two events will be held under the giant brand Stitch & Tex Expo – Afro Edition.

Set to establish a tangible uprising in motivating employment, inspiring skill development, stirring entrepreneurship in the textiles business segment and achieving economic development, the two editions of Stitch & Tex – Afro Edition 2020 will be held in the prestigious venue Cairo International Conventions and Exhibitions Center – Egypt, from 27 February –1 March 2020 and from 5-8 March 2020 consecutively.

Goring interest

“Over the past decades the snow–balling international business interest in Africa has risen to unprecedented levels; due to the immense resources and potential of the continent,” organisers report. “The continent enjoys comparative advantages over other territories in the world to become the ultimate next stop for global textiles and garments industry. The new rising star provides all the essential ingredients, namely, quality raw materials, low wages and low energy costs to attract the world’s key manufacturing brands.”

Italian company Santoni produces circular knitting machines. © Stitch & Tex Expo – Afro Edition

The textiles and clothing sector is predominantly the key priority of Africa’s industrial development strategy. The vision is set specifically to empower the textiles and clothing sector’s global competitiveness boosting up-to-date technology transfer, sustained investment promotion, consultancy, training, research, laboratory and marketing support and services.

New horizons for textile technologies

Stitch & Tex Expo – Afro Edition is an important business to business forum serving Africa’s ever-growing textiles and apparel industries, making cutting–edge technological solutions available for qualified buyers and providing opportunities for exhibitors to access the regional prosperous well-off markets at a single event.

The event presents state-of-the-art quality content, covering the entire spectrum of textiles and apparel machinery sector comprising textile, knitting, weaving, spinning, sewing, embroidery, dyeing and finishing machinery, in addition to related accessories.

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