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Successful edition of INDEX 2017;

Editor-in-Chief Technical textiles again in focus in
Yousaf Fareed
Frankfurt; Expansion in the cotton
Editor
area resulting production growth
Hassan Saeed
Sub-Editor
Saba Noor Bringing together the key players value-added products such as
Farooq Malik from every dimension of the innova- garments, the Pakistan Bureau of
tive world of textile, INDEX is the Statistics said on Monday. The
Advisory Board: largest global meeting place for the increase in export proceeds was
Dr. Tanveer Hussain non-woven market. The 2017th also evident in rupee terms. The data
Dr. Muhammad Tausif edition of the exhibition took place at for the month shows that exports of
Palexpo, in the city of Geneva, value-added products grew during
Marketing Manager Switzerland from 4th to 7th of April the month, both in terms of value
Mohammad Ahmed 2017. A sum of about 12,758 visitors and quantity.
Mohammad Khan made their way through the doors of
Abdul Haseeb exhibition center. Overall a big High cotton prices have prevailed in
success, the event brought number 2016/17, which are expected to
Layouts of opportunities to the non-woven encourage farmers to expand the
Faizan Khan textile market of Pakistan as well. area under cotton by 5% to 30.8
million hectares in 2017/18. Produc-
Circulation Incharge Techtextil a leading international tion in China is expected to rise by
Abdul Mughees trade fair for technical textile and 1% to 4.8 million tons, the first
Mohammad Bilal Khan non-woven that presents a wide increase in five seasons. While in
range of potential uses of textile USA production could grow by 8% to
Adddress technologies with a motto of 4 million tons. Production in Brazil is
C-302, City Towers connecting future, is coming again. projected to reach 1.4 million tons
Main Boulevard, Gulberg II The event is planned to be held on while Australia’s production is
Lahore-Pakistan 9th to 12th of May 2017 at forecast to rise by 4% to 1 million
Fairground, Frankfurt am Main in tons.
parallel with Texprocess the leading
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number of exhibitors and visitors third consecutive season in 2017/18.
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event. increase by 2% to 24.6 million tons.
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Textile and clothing exports rose 6.2 to 2.3 million tons due to new
per cent year-on-year to $1.064 incentives for textile exports offered
billion in March, mainly driven by by the government.