India's Technotex 2023 to host global technical textiles' fraternity

The event is expected to attract the participation of all major stakeholders from the global technical textiles’ fraternity as well as institutional buyers from the army, navy, air force, CISF, CRPF, paramilitary forces, police, hospitals, BRO, agriculture institutions, CPWD, PWD, municipalities, sports institutions, and others. The event will also be supported by all related industry associations.

Technotex is one of the largest composite events of the technical textile industry of the Asia-Pacific region. The exhibition exemplifies the immense potential for bilateral trade and investment between India and foreign countries in the technical textile sector in a mutually beneficial way.

The previous versions of the event witnessed overwhelming participation from 34 countries namely Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Belarus, Cambodia, Columbia, Czech Republic, Ethiopia, France, Germany, Ghana, Indonesia, Iran, Israel, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Nigeria, Poland, Russia, Senegal, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Switzerland, Taiwan, Uganda, United Kingdom, the US, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, and Zambia and hosted focused country pavilions from China and South Korea respectively. Odisha was the partner state and other leading states like Gujarat, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, and NER States participated at the various business forums.

The CEO’s roundtable conference, which will be held on February 22, 2022 at the Bombay Exhibition Centre, Mumbai is expected to be attended by several senior central and state government officials. Top CEOs from various fields of the technical textiles sector along with Piyush Goyal, the Union minister of commerce and industry, consumer affairs, food and public distribution and textiles, will be present at the event; its theme is ‘Envisioning Indian Technical Textiles@2047’.

Technical textiles are high performance textiles which find application not only in clothing but in areas such as agriculture, medicine, infrastructure development, automotive, aerospace, sports, protective clothing, packaging, etc. Technical textiles have seen an upward trend globally in recent years due to improving economic conditions.

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