Texworld, the perfect response to Western demand
Europe's most competitive and varied show with more than 780 exhibitors

Always new creative products

The next Texworld show will take place from Monday 22 to Thursday 25 September at the exhibition ground in Paris Le Bourget. Once again, the event promises a host of innovations from new exhibitors and their products. More than 780 exhibitors will be presenting their new products to around 17,000 buyers from across the world 87% of which are from abroad. "There's always
something new!" This is what our professional visitors want most of all. According to research conducted at the show, 89% hope to discover new suppliers of specific products. They like Texworld because it offers a spectacularly wide range of products and because the show gives them every opportunity to find just what they are looking for.

High quality, creative collections at the most attractive prices in the market

Companies are selected as much for the quality of their services as for the quality of their products. Most of the exhibitors are from Asia: India, China, South Korea, Taiwan and Turkey. With each show, they get to know their buyer's demands better and are able to adapt and to respond to what buyers are looking for. The importance, for example, that Western consumers attach to organic products, or products manufactured with a view to protecting the planet is increasing: fabrics made from recycled materials, renewable materials or materials grown organically and that are increasingly biodegradable. So soy, bamboo and chitosan (a material derived from the shells of crustaceans) are now being used together with more traditional materials: wool, cotton, silk and linen, as well as viscose and polyester.

The creativity and virtuosity of what's available in terms of textiles has developed considerably: fine prints with subtle gradations of colour, jewellery sometimes woven with silk or printed to create unusual light effects, fine, fresh embroidery, hand-painted silks, sumptuous cashmeres, ultra-light wools and magnificent closeweave cottons as well as imaginative denims.
By bringing together innovation, fashion and quality in this way, the exhibitors at Texworld are responding to the needs of professional buyers, even more so by offering their products at the most competitive prices in the Western market. This makes the Show of great interest for buyers when they are putting together their new collections. Especially in today’s climate where consumers, faced with the rising cost of basic items (food or petrol) are paying careful attention to what they spend and therefore looking for fashionable clothing at the lowest price. Consumers are now more than ever flocking to snap up special offers and sale items, and they are now favouring the low cost chains.

New exhibitors show originality and professionalism

New exhibitors will feature:

• Youngor Worsted, a specialist in combed wool, founded in Yinxian County, Ningho City, Zhejiang Province in China, combines weaving and finishing using all sorts of mixes with wool, and highly functional finishes: absorbent surfaces which remain fresh, shape memory fabric with good retention. This company, which manufactures 5 million metres of wool fabrics each year, has joint ventures with Itochu in Japan and Marzotto in Italy.
• Tianjin Textile, a major Chinese group, also in the combed wool market, is betting on high technology.
• Mitsubishi Rayon Co, a Japanese company which is using acetate and polyester to create a range of functional fabrics: anti-static, anti-microbial, anti-odour, using fabric blends mainly based on chitosan (viscose derived from crab shells).
• Salim Kaskas Co., our first Lebanese exhibitor with headquarters in Beirut. This company has been specialising, since 1960, in highly innovative fabrics (for fashion), using all kinds of silk fabrics such as: shantung, tussah, organza, ponge silk.

The Clothing area is even better with CTAF

Just like every year in September, the Clothing area is even better thanks to CTAF – best of China fashion – which brings together some hundred exhibitors keen to promote their best known readyto-wear brands in Europe.

The Clothing area will also be welcoming around twenty exhibitors from other countries, including:

• Bonda Industrial, a company based in Hong Kong with several factories in China offers adult as well as children’s clothes – with a “high fashion” junior collection in particular.
• Creative Fashion, headquartered in Munich, will present a very comprehensive collection of silk dresses as well as items made from organic cotton, leather (bags, belts) and has several shops in Germany under the Virmani label.
• Enkay Exports, an Indian company which will be bringing a "Bollywood" feel to the Show with highly feminine and glamorous accessories: belts, scarves and jewellery, as well as accessories to jazz up clothing.
• JSC Zidra, a Lithuanian company managed by a team of stylists and textile specialists which, as well as supplying various specialist fabrics and embroidery, also offers very feminine and original clothing.
• Neohouse, a highly original company of French origin which specialises in neoprene clothing and accessories. Founded by stylist and director Thomas Renaud and some of his friends in a garage in Biarritz, the company, which has a shop in Bordeaux, met with immediate success in certain foreign markets, and in the United States in particular, which just goes to show that no one is a prophet in his own country.
• R.D.Parmanandka, this Indian company, with over 35 years’ experience in underwear and tee-shirts, exports its Lyril brand to the Middle East, the United States and Europe (Italy and the United Kingdom).

The Clothing area and CTAF – China Textile and Apparel Trade Fair - will be in hall 5 next to the Functional Fabrics area. This light and modern hall will be accessed via one of two entrances to the exhibition area and linked to halls 2 and 1 of Texworld by a covered gallery. The second entrance will provide direct access to hall 1.

Texworld will hold its 23rd session from Monday, the 22 to Thursday, the 25 September 2008 at the Paris le Bourget Exhibitions Park.

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(Editor: Victor Pan, m.somnuscn.com )