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For the first time, DOMOTEX asia/CHINAFLOOR in
collaboration with COVER magazine successfully
hosted “Luxury Brands”, a contemporary
high-end handmade design carpet showcase in the
heart of hall W5. Luxury Brands consisted of an
exclusive display area which featured a curated
selection of high-end hand-made carpets from some
of the top international rug brands, namely: Amadi
Carpets, Ariana Rugs, Art Resources,
Ayka Design, Creative Matters, Hossein
Rezvani, Knots Rugs, New Moon, Rug
Star, Samad, Tissage, Wool & Silk Rugs
and Zollanvari. The Luxury Brands showcase
was met with great enthusiasm and interest by the
visiting audience, showing a clear trend setting in the
Asian market for the handmade carpet sector.

The exhibition’s halls were flooded by visitors from
proved the profound commitment of the flooring China, Asia-Pacific and other regions of the world,
industry “, said Ms. Susanne Klaproth, Global who came to discover new trends, technologies and
Director DOMOTEX at Deutsche Messe, one of the innovations and took part in 33 conferences, events
organizers of the show. “We received a very and seminars around flooring practices, applications
positive feedback from our exhibitors who and modern day challenges, presented by
appreciate the high quality of the visitors. This world-renowned flooring experts, professionals and
motivates us to keep on targeting the best buyers designers. Events like the “ALL IN ONE Home
of carpets and floor coverings from China and Decoration Industry and Wooden Products
Asia-Pacific. “ Development Summit” and the “Bamboo Flooring
and Outdoor Decking Matchmaking” attracted a
The InnovAction Flooring program once plethora of both domestic and international flooring
again gave DOMOTEX asia/CHINAFLOOR 2017 visitors, while cadex conferences such as the “Luxury
exhibitors the opportunity to showcase their newest Boutique Hotel Design” and “Smart Home” were fully
products to the audience before and during the packed with architecture and interior design professionals.
exhibition. More than 500 new products were
launched on the show’s dedicated online platform Another feature that continued its successful route
by over 400 exhibitors. Visitors voted online and following its 2016 launch was the US Distributor
onsite for their favorite innovative products Delegation that brought together 10 flooring
choosing the Top 10 from wood, carpet and professionals from some of the biggest flooring
resilient sectors. The companies that received an distributing companies in the US for a China Factory
award under the category 2017 Top 10 New Tour before the exhibition and onsite B2B match
Products were: ERE FLOORING, FUYU WOVEN, making with selected exhibitors during DOMOTEX
FUXING CARPET, PROPARQ, HOMEDEC WEIYA asia/CHINAFLOOR. “The breadth of products at the
CARPET, INNOMASTER HOME, JIALI CARPET, exhibition was simply incredible. It is something that
KINGDOM PLASTICS, TAISHAN ARTIFICIAL TURF any executive who deals with Asian manufacturing
INDUSTRY, and YINGTAIHONGYE HOME should experience. I would definitely say the trip
DECORATION. Onsite, visitors had a chance to provided me with extra knowledge that will prove
DOMOTEX asia/CHINAFLOOR, the leading flooring India, Iran, Turkey, The Netherlands and USA were preview and experience a selection of 50 new products crucial for future dealings.” – said Chuck Greene,
tradeshow in Asia-Pacific, opened its doors to also represented through country pavilions. The total displayed in 2 dedicated InnovAction Centers. hardwood product manager at Apollo Distributing.
visitors and exhibitors from all around the world number of visitors increased by 8.2 % from the
during March 21-23, 2017 at the Shanghai New previous edition and reached 54,529 visitors, among cadex, the international hub for connecting, Future is looking particularly bright for DOMOTEX
Exhibition Centre. 1,364 exhibitors from 40 different which 12,812 were international flooring learning and doing business in the design and asia/CHINAFLOOR 2018, which will mark its 20th
countries, among which 313 were international, professionals. architecture industry was held for the second year year on the forefront of the flooring industry in Asia as
exhibited both traditional and innovative flooring concurrently to DOMOTEX asia/CHINAFLOOR. the leading flooring tradeshow. With a phenomenal
products in an extended gross area of 145,000sqm “Again DOMOTEX asia/CHINAFLOOR confirmed its cadex hosted three days of conferences, onsite rebooking rate of 64 % and an excellent
spread throughout 13 halls. Ten countries, namely leading position in Asia-Pacific. In particular, the networking, interactive events, creative displays, feedback from the exhibition’s visitors, the 2018 maintain its position as the No. 1 flooring exhibition
Afghanistan, Belgium, Croatia, France, Germany, huge variety of domestic and international brands and much more. edition is sure to come back even more enriched and both for exhibitors and for visitors in Asia-Pacific.