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A big success for the first

European Machinery

Roadshow in COLOMBIA

The first European roadshow of 14 textile machinery rubber, polyurethane and fluropolymers, supplying
manufacturers took place on October 18 in Bogota both original equipment manufacturers and the end
and the following day in Medellin. With more than 100 consumers of the main industrial countries.
Colombian textile producers attending, it exceeded ICOMATEX (Spain): Icomatex is a family owned
the expectations of the organizers, the Belgian company located in Terrassa, just outside Barcelona,
(SYMATEX), French (UCMTF), Spanish (AMTEX) and Spain. Founded in 1975, the company started out as
Swedish (TMAS) textile machinery associations. a manufacturer of mainly dyeing and drying
machinery.
The event format included a 15 minutes presentation INDUSTRIAL SAGARRA (Spain): Industrial Sagarra is a
by each machinery manufacturer. In parallel, a mini high-specialized company in manufacturing and
fair was held where they showed animated videos of distributing paper cores. Founded in 1965 has grown
their machinery running at client’s sites and throughout the years reaching 70 employees and an
showcased textile samples produced on their annual income of 8M Euros.
equipment. They were available to develop business IRO (Sweden): Iro AB was founded in 1958 and has
cases and personalized technological solutions. since then been active in yarn feeding business. IRO AD
strengthened its leadership position by buying Roj
The four associations are very satisfied with this Electrotex in 1992.
result and will continue to explore the format and LAROCHE (France): As a pioneer in fiber processing
collaborate among the European Textile Machinery machines, Laroche has been developing new
Associations to showcase the latest technology to solutions for almost 100 years. With integrated
different markets. manufacturing, can supply lines for a wide range of
industries.
The following machinery manufacturers presented N. SCHLUMBERGER (France): Manufacturer of textile
their knowhow and latest technologies: machinery and complete fibre-to-yarn lines. Founded
BONAS (Belgium): Bonas, the jacquard brand within in 1810, N. Schlumberger is a member company of
VANDEWIELE, produces state-of-the-art electronic the NSC Group.
jacquards for all kinds of fabric applications: terry PETIT SPARE PARTS (France): Petit Spare Parts, the
toweling, furnishing fabrics, curtain fabrics, apparel. specialist partner for textile industries. Petit Spare
CANMARTEX (Spain): Electronic Jacquard circular. Parts today is the specialized provider for textile
Single and double jersey. Since its constitution in industries.
2002, Canmartex Catgrup has always sought an PICANOL (Belgium): The Picanol Group is an
exclusive, differentiating space in the textile international, customer-oriented group that
machinery industry. specializes in the development, production and sale
DOLLFUS & MULLER (France): Dollfus & Muller of weaving machines, engineered casting solutions
founded in 1811 develops, manufactures and sells and custom-made controllers.
endless belts and felts for textile finishing TACOME (Spain): Tacome S.A. present in the market
machineries, net conveyors for various dryers among for more than 40 years, is dedicated to the
them printing dryers and thermobonding oven. manufacturing of textile printing and finishing
ESCARRE (Spain): The most comprehensive solution machinery.
to improve efficiency and productivity in the textile VAN DE WIELE (Belgium): Vandewiele develops,
industry. Specialists in monitoring and control of builds, assembles and installs carpet and velvet
dyeing and finishing since 1990. weaving machines, weaving machines for technical
GOMPLAST (Spain): Gomplast S.A. (Barcelona 1958) fabrics, extrusion lines, heatsetting, jacquard
engages exclusively in the coating of rollers with machines and finishing lines.

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