ITM 2024

The ITM 2022 Exhibition, which was organized in 12 halls on an area of 120,000 square meters, broke records with both exhibitors, visitors and machinery sales. ITM 2022 Exhibition, attended by 1280 companies and company representatives from 65 countries, was visited by 64,500 people from 102 countries, consisting of 44% international and 56% domestic visitors. At the exhibition, where companies sold machinery worth million Euros, a business volume of over 1.5 billion Euros was created.

TURKEY BECAME THE WORLD’S SUPPLY CENTER AT THE ITM 2022 EXHIBITION

The successful sales graph achieved at the ITM 2022 Exhibition proved that the difficulties experienced due to the pandemic for the last 3 years have been left behind. Turkey has become a supply center for European, Middle Eastern and African countries, especially with the disruption of the supply chain in Far East countries, including China. The profile of the professional visitors visiting the ITM 2022 Exhibition revealed that in the new world order that has shifted after the pandemic, the trade network has also changed hands and new players have appeared on the scene. The fact that manufacturers from all over the world such as Andorra, Angola, Honduras, Peru, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Brazil, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Egypt, Iran, and Oman purchased a large number of machinery and signed strong collaborations at the ITM 2022 Exhibition has proven this.

The ITM Exhibition, which was eagerly awaited by the textile technology leaders, also pleased the participating companies with the number of visitors and performed machinery sales amounting to millions of Euros.

Many company officials, who stated that they have achieved a sales graphic far above their expectations starting from the very first day of the ITM 2022 Exhibition and that they have hosted visitors from all over the world, decided to enlarge their stands at the ITM 2024 Exhibition. During the exhibition, companies visited the registration application points and applied for ITM 2024 participation.

ITM 2022: GO TO ADDRESS FOR WORLD LAUNCHES

Pursuing the usual as to keep the pulse of the sector this year similar to the previous years, ITM 2022 has turned into a textile feast with the participation of hundreds of manufacturers who developed technologies in their field, and the visits of global investors and commercial delegations. Many companies, which focus on product development and new productions under pandemic conditions, had the opportunity to introduce their products to their customers for the first time in 3 years at the ITM 2022 Exhibition. Company owners, managers, employees and sector representatives visiting the exhibition had the opportunity to see the latest technological innovations for the first time and witnessed their world launches.

The countries where the visitors come to the ITM 2022 Exhibition are as follows: Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Andorra, Angola, Argentina, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belgium, Benin, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Colombia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Egypt, Estonia, Ethiopia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Honduras, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, South Korea, Kosovo, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, Libya, Lithuania, Macedonia, Malaysia, Mauritius, Mexico, Moldova, Mongolia, Morocco, Nepal, Netherlands, Nigeria, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Somalia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand , Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Northern Cyprus s Turkish Republic, Turkey, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, America, Uzbekistan, Vietnam and Yemen.

NEXT MEETING IS ON 4-8 JUNE 2024

The next meeting of the ITM and HIGHTEX Exhibitions, which bring together the world’s textile technology leaders, will be held in Istanbul between 4-8 June 2024.

1.1. PURPOSE OF RESEARCH

This research aims, by identifying the visitor profiles, the overall assessments of the fair by the visitors with the help of the surveys carried out throughout the event and the information forms collected from both domestic and foreign visitors at the exhibition entrance to present the analysis results, exhibitionrelated news summaries released in the media to the exhibiting companies, and making use of the gained data to improve and develop future exhibitions.

1.2. RESEARCH METHOD AND SAMPLE STRUCTURE

This research was carried out by making face-to-face surveys with the exhibition visitors equally-distributed to the days and hours during which the exhibition was held and randomly picked on different spots of the exhibition center; assessing the information forms collected from the visitors at the entrance of the exhibition; and analyzing the info on the entry registrations and invitations of the professional visitors.

ITM 2022 International Textile Machinery Exhibition and consecutive HIGHTEX 2022 International Technical Textiles and Nonwovens Trade Exhibition, organized by the partnership of Tüyap and Teknik Fairs and with the cooperation of TEMSAD Textile Machinery and Accessories Industrialists Association,

was opened with the attendance of industry professionals, exhibiting companies, press members and guests.

2. EXHIBITION SUMMARY INFO

– 65 countries 1280 companies and company representatives

– 102 countries 64.500 professional visitors

– 36.120 domestic, 28.380 foreign visitors

– 56% domestic, 44% foreign visitors

– 10% overall visitor increase compared to previous exhibition

– 18% foreign visitors increase and 9% participant country diversity increase

Intensely from the countries are: Germany, Albania, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, United Kingdom, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, France, Croatia, Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, Kosovo, Lithuania, Macedonia, Moldova, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovenia, Turkey, Ukraine, Greece.

4. FOREIGN VISITOR INFORMATION

ITM 2022 International Textile Machinery Exhibition and consecutive HIGHTEX 2022 International Technical Textiles and Nonwovens Exhibition.

4.1. FOREIGN TRADE DELEGATION

The countries where the T.C Ministry of Economy Trade Committees come from are: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Algeria, South Africa, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Serbia. In addition, international delegations from Belarus, Iran, India, Uzbekistan, Pakistan, Egypt, Morocco, Algeria, Russia visited ITM 2022.

5. DOMESTIC VISITORS INFORMATION

36 thousand 120 people from all over Turkey visited the ITM 2022 Exhibition. This cities are: Adana, Ağrı, Afyon, Ankara, Antalya, Aydın, Balıkesir, Bolu, Bursa, Bingöl, Bitlis, Çanakkale, Çankırı, Çorum, Denizli, Düzce, Edirne, Eskişehir, Gaziantep, Gümüşhane, Hatay, Isparta, İstanbul, İzmir, Kahramanmaraş, Kayseri, Kırklareli, Kilis, Kocaeli, Konya, Kütahya, Malatya, , Manisa, Mersin, Muğla, Niğde, Osmaniye, Sakarya, Samsun, Sivas, Şanlıurfa, Tekirdağ, Tokat, Uşak, Yalova, Zonguldak.

All Informations Regarding ITM 2022 Exhibition was on ITM CHANNEL

ITM 2022- International Textile Machinery Exhibition which hosted the world’s textile technology leaders in Istanbul for 5 days, broke records with the number of exhibitors and visitors as well as the sales made by the companies. ITM 2022, the first international exhibition held after a 3-year hiatus in the field of textile machinery, also broke new grounds. One of them was ITM CHANNEL, which started broadcasting on Youtube this year. All informations regarding the ITM 2022 Exhibition were followed on its own channel. ITM CHANNEL, where the opening ceremony of the ITM 2022 Exhibition, interviews with exhibitor company managers and promotional videos of all halls from weaving-knitting to fiber yarn, from dyeing-finishing to digital printing and denim technologies were published, attracted great attention. Interviews and promotional videos projected on giant screens placed in the fair area; It was watched with interest by both participants and visitors. The videos, which were also shared on ITM Instagram and LinkedIn accounts and viewed hundreds of times, received many likes. It was attracted notice that almost all of the company executives interviewed in the videos emphasized that the ITM 2022 Exhibition was very successful and that they signed many collaborations.

Intense Interest for Early Registration for ITM 2024 Exhibition

The excitement of ITM 2024 started before stopped of the wind of the ITM 2022, which was held between 14-18 June and hosted a record number of visitors from all over the world. New dates have been announced for the next meeting of the ITM and HIGHTEX exhibitions, which bring together the world’s textile technology leaders. ITM and HIGHTEX 2024 will be held at Tüyap Fair and Congress Center on 4-8 June 2024. The ITM 2022 Exhibition, which is the first and biggest meeting of the textile machinery industry worldwide after the pandemic, achieved a success far beyond the expectations of both the participants and the visitors. During the ITM 2022 Exhibition, where record sales were made, the ITM 2024 Early Registration Points established in the exhibition area attracted great attention. Many company managers who were satisfied with the exhibition flocked to the ‘Early Registration Points’. While most of the participants who applied for ITM 2024 decided to enlarge their stands, many new companies lined up to take their place at the exhibition.

“We believe that exhibitions like ITM are very important in order to become more global and catch up with the era in recent years. We had a good atmosphere here, both with our colleagues and with other companies. We had the opportunity to meet many new customers during the exhibition.”

Serkon Sales Manager

“Currently, our machines are operating in 70 countries around the world. We attended the ITM 2022 to further increase this number. We are very happy to introduce our fabric control and fabric memory machine, which we have never introduced before, at ITM 2022 for the first time.”

Memminger – Iro Sales Manager

“We were pleased to meet with industry representatives, whom we could not
meet for a long time, at the ITM 2022. Participation in the exhibition was above our expectations. Our commercial relations were also very productive. We have signed successful collaborations.”

SICAM Head of Sales and Supply Chain Management

“After 3 years, we were happy to meet face to face with our customers again at HIGHTEX 2022. We introduced our new products. From the first day of the exhibition, we established very good connections and we had long-term cooperation opportunities.”

General Manager of Eurofiber

“Coming together with industry representatives at HIGHTEX 2022 Exhibition after 4 years has been a good start for both us and our customers. I think our business potential will increase gradually after the exhibition.”

SRY Teknik General Manager

“About 60-70 percent of the visitors were foreigners. This shows that; HIGHTEX Exhibition has become an international organization. The visitors were really company executives who were extremely interested in their fields and contemplated on new projects.”