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                                           ITMA ASIA + CITME 2018 expecting

                                           100,000 participants; A modest
                                           increase in textile exports; Global Yarn
             Editor-in-Chief               and fabric production decreased in first
             Yousaf Fareed
                                           quarter of 2018
             Editor
             Hassan Saeed                  The sixth edition of ITMA ASIA +   fourth quarter of 2017 and first
                                           CITME 2018 is gearing up for       quarter of 2018. The Increase of
             Sub-Editor                    another huge exhibition in Shang-  12pc in Brazil has been cancelled
             Ezzah Aqeel                   hai, China with a participant’s    out by reductions in production in
             Alexandros Ali Khan           expectation of approximately       Africa, Asia and Europe by 13pc,
                                           100,000 from around the world.     11pc and 1.5pc respectively. Most
             Advisory Board:               1700 local and international textile   responding countries from Africa,
             Dr. Tanveer Hussain           machinery manufacturers from 28    Asia, and North America are
             Dr. Muhammad Tausif           countries are expected to demon-   optimistic about the evolution in
                                           strate their latest machinery as well   second quarter of 2018, while
             Marketing Manager             as other products that boost       Europe and Brazil expect a decline
             Kaiynat Khan                  automation and energy saving       in production. Global yarn stocks
             Saeed Ahmed                   features.                          decreased in all regions in first
                                                                              quarter of 2018 except in Brazil by
             Layouts                       Mr Wang Shutian, president of      1.5pc.
             Faizan Khan                   China Textile Machinery Associa-
                                           tion (CTMA), said, “The strong     PHMA (North Zone) has elected Mr
             Marketing Incharge            demand for space attests to the    Adil Butt, Mr Sh Sarwat Kapoor
             Abdul Mughees                 effectiveness and popularity of the   and Mr Kashif Zia as unopposed
                                           combined show. We had a long       Chairman, Vice Chairman and
             Adddress                      waiting list for space by the      Senior Vice Chairman respectively
             C-302, City Towers            deadline for applications. There-  for the year 2018-2019. For the
             Main Boulevard, Gulberg II    fore, we made the decision to book   post of Central Chairman Mr
             Lahore-Pakistan               the additional space available in   Javaid Bilwani was elected and the
                                           the venue.”                        results have been approved.
             Phone: + 92 42 35 788 700
             Fax:   + 92 42 35 788 700     In August 2018, the textile exports   PRGMEA chief coordinator Mr Ijaz
                                           continuously inched up as value    A Khokhar stressed that display
             Email: info@textalks.com      added product segments             houses ought to be established as
             Skype: textalks               witnessed a moderate growth        they can facilitate domestic
                                           whereas, there was also an         entrepreneurs to handily settle
             www.textalks.com              increase in exports of cotton yarn   business deals at minimum travel
                                           and cloth. The textile exports hiked   costs. He further said that a large
                                           by 4pc in the second month of      number of foreign businessmen
                                           fiscal year 2019 on year to year   were visiting Dubai because it had
                                           basis. The figures were slightly   become major trade and business
                                           higher for August 2018 that saw    hub, therefore, display centers
                                           the overall textile exports grow by   would enable the domestic entre-
                                           7pc compared to August 2018.       preneurs to settle their business
                                                                              deals more easily as well as help
                                           Global yarn production has         to reduce the additional burden of
                                           decreased by 9pc between the       travel cost.


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