22 May 2009, Frankfurt – Messe Frankfurt is to launch Texprocess,
a new machinery, equipment and process exhibition which will compliment Techtextil,
the leading technical textiles and nonwovens show. Texprocess will make its
debut in Frankfurt in parallel with Techtextil from 2011.
“As the
investment-goods fair for the textile and fashion industry, Texprocess will be
the meeting place for over 500 exhibitors and around 25,000 visitors from all
over the world”, explains Detlef Braun, Member of the Board of Management of
Messe Frankfurt.
Texprocess will make its debut from 24 to 27 May 2011, and
take place parallel to Techtextil, the international trade fair for technical
textiles and nonwovens, which has been well established in Frankfurt for
several decades. From then on, Texprocess will continue its biennial cycle of
events alongside Techtextil thus creating a potent duo of leading international
trade fairs with approximately 1,700 exhibitors and around 50,000 visitors from
120 nations.
“Texprocess is an
uncompromising step forward in our international strategy with which we will
further extend our market leadership in the textile sphere. With over 30 events
worldwide, we now cover the entire process chain from materials and fabrics,
via fashions and garments, to the vital technology fair for processing and care”,
said Braun.
In the textile sector, Messe Frankfurt has a unique
portfolio of fairs for home and contract textiles (Heimtextil), technical
textiles (Techtextil), garment fabrics (Intertextile, Texworld, Interstoff
Asia) and machinery, plant and technology for the sector (Texprocess, Texcare).
The textile and investment-goods fairs are highly international events.
On around 80,000 square metres of exhibition space, Texprocess
will present the latest machinery, plant, processes and services for
manufacturing textiles and other flexible materials. The range of products to be
shown will embrace all process stages from design and cutting, CAD/CAM
processes and preparations for processing using appropriate technology and
processes to distribution logistics, finishing, waste disposal, recycling and
environmental protection. Texprocess is aimed at an audience from the
industrial fields of garment manufacturing, textile processing, technical
textiles, trade, services, research and training. On the exhibitor side, over
50 percent of the 25,000 visitors expected are likely to come from outside
Germany.
Techtextil is the world’s leading trade fair for technical
textiles. It is divided into innovative applications categories and
incorporates an extensive programme of congresses and conferences. The fair is
held in line with the cycle of innovations prevailing in the industry. Thus,
every two years, around 1,200 exhibitors present their latest products and
innovations at Techtextil in Frankfurt am Main to around 23,000 trade visitors,
over half of them from outside Germany.
2Holding Texprocess parallel to Techtextil means more than
just a new fair. Rather, the result is a textile powerhouse in Frankfurt, two
leading international trade fairs at the same time and place, which will
generate unique synergies at a stroke. For example manufacturers have the
chance to make contact with twice the number of potential customers while
visitors benefit from a much bigger and optimised range of products and
services, all coupled with reduced costs
in terms of time and travel. Additionally, this will open up new
internationalisation perspectives for Frankfurt Fair and Exhibition Centre, for
the new Texprocess trade-fair brand and for the entire textile and technology
division of Messe Frankfurt”, Messe Frankfurt says.
