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Italian Textile

Machinery machines. Italian sales abroad are divided among

these main sectors: 32% dyeing, finishing and
printing machines, 22% accessories, 22% spinning
machines, 11% knitting machines, 8% weaving
Industry machines and 5% other machines.

An overview and links with Pakistan

Italian textile machinery industry: figures divided as follows: Asia (47%), followed by Europe Links with Pakistani textile industry
In Italy, there are approximately 300 companies who (35%), North America (8%), Latin America (7%) and Pakistan is an important market for textile machinery.
produce textile machines and related accessories, for Africa (3%). In 2016 the Italian sales in Pakistani market totalled a
a total of about 12,000 employees. In 2016 the value value of Euro 80 million, with an increase of 71% on
of Italian production was Euro 2.7 billion, with exports The biggest contribution to the Italian exports of the same period of the previous year.
worth Euro 2.3 billion. 2016 figures of production and textile machinery came from China. In 2016 Italian
export could register a further growth. exports toward Chinese market amounted to a value ACIMIT profile The most requested Italian machines were the
of Euro 308 million. China is followed by Turkey (Euro ACIMIT is a private national body that brings together finishing ones (53% of the total export towards
most of Italian textile machinery companies (that Pakistan), followed by spinning (23%) and
account for about 80% of the whole Italian textile accessories (12%).
machinery production).
Italian Textile Machinery Exports to Pakistan by
The Association main purpose consists in promoting Categories (2016)
the Italian textile machinery and in supporting the Due to the relevance of this market ACIMIT, in
activity of our member companies, mainly abroad. cooperation with Italian Trade Agency, has set up
over the years an intensive program for increasing
ACIMIT organizes exhibitions, technical seminars, contacts between operators from the two Countries,
missions in Italy and abroad and so on. The majority including incoming missions of Pakistani delegates in
of these activities are carried out in cooperation with Italy and some technological workshops in the
Italian Trade Agency and Italian Ministry of Economic Country.
At a world level Italy is one of the main suppliers 172 million), India (Euro 135 million) and Bangladesh Development.
of textile machinery together with Germany, (Euro 110 million).
China, Japan and Switzerland. Italian market ACIMIT is a member of CEMATEX (Comité Européen
share on the world exports of textile machinery is des Constructeurs de Machines Textile), that groups
about 11%. more than 600 companies in Europe. One of the
fundamental tasks of Cematex is the organization
The wide supply of Italian textile machinery and allocation of ITMA, the most important
manufacturers let them face the needs of all the specialized fair worldwide in the textile machinery
potential customers. Exports represent 85% of total industry.
sales, realized in about 130 destination countries.
This process of internationalization, together with the Information about Italian textile machinery
vocation for innovation in the sector, allowed Italian companies, their products, contact data and more
companies to consolidate and further improve the can be found on ACIMIT website (www.acimit.it).
leading position held by the Italian textile machinery
industry all over the world.
The supply of Italian manufacturers covers all the
In 2016 Italian exports of textile machines was classic sectors into which we can divide textile