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Successful edition of ITMA

Asia & DPS; Government

Editor-in-Chief
urges industrialization
Yousaf Fareed
Editor
Hassan Saeed ITMA ASIA + CITME 2018, the countries like China, Turkey, UAE,
region’s leading textile machinery UK, USA, Japan, Pakistan and many
Sub-Editor exhibition, ended successfully after more. The key exhibitiors this year
Ezzah Aqeel five days of exciting product includes SPG Prints, ATEXCO, MS
Alexandros Ali Khan demonstrations and business Printing Solutions, Sign Trade, Sabri,
networking. The total exhibition GR Trading, Awami Traders, EPSON
Advisory Board: area at ITMA ASIA + CITME 2018 Robustelli, Mimaki, Grapho Scan
Dr. Tanveer Hussain grossed 180,000 square metres Supplies, Cubetex and many more.
Dr. Muhammad Tausif and spanned seven halls. A total of
1,733 exhibitors from 28 countries Industrialization through import
Marketing Manager and regions demonstrated their substitution coupled with export
Saniha Naveed latest technological products that growth through diversification was
Saeed Ahmed focus on automation and imperative to put the country on
sustainable production. road to progress and prosperity,
Layouts said Mr Abdul Razak Dawood. He
Faizan Khan The sixth combined exhibition added, we will give a framework for
welcomed visitor ship of over the industrial policy that which
Marketing Incharge 100,000 from 116 countries and industry is of strategic importance
Abdul Mughees regions, with an increase of 10 per and the government have to
cent from domestic visitors support it. He cited the example of
Adddress compared to the 2016 show. About Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Vietnam
C-302, City Towers 20 per cent of the visitors came and Cambodia and said that they
Main Boulevard, Gulberg II from outside of China. Following had supported their industrial
Lahore-Pakistan the successful staging of the 2018 sector to achieve self-sufficiency.
edition, the next ITMA ASIA + CITME
Phone: + 92 42 35 788 700 will be held in October 2020 at the This sector is a major taxpayer &
Fax: + 92 42 35 788 700 National Exhibition and Convention the largest employment generator
Centre (NECC) in Shanghai. in the entire textile chain & exports.
Email: info@textalks.com Owing to what he called right
Skype: textalks The 4th DPS World 2018 (Digital polices of the government, the
Printing, Machinery & Signage economy of the country would
www.textalks.com Technology Exhibition) was held at improve in the months to come as
Expo Centre, Lahore with large exports were getting better. Value
number of visitors from across the added- textile products could earn
country. The event was plenty of foreign exchange for the
inaugurated by Mian Aslam Iqbal, country. We also must shun the
Minister for Industries, Commerce import trend and encourage ‘Made
and Investment Govt. Of Punjab. in Pakistan’ culture to give a
More than 125 companies from 25 supporting hand to Pakistani
countries participated from industrial sector.

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