South India’s largest exhibition on apparel production technology concluded in Bangalore with a positive note on July 15th 2007.
The impressive lamp lighting at the inaugural ceremony was jointly performed by the Chief Guest Mr. Dinesh J. Hinduja, Executive Director, Gokaldas Exports Pvt. Ltd. and Guests of Honor Mr. Weijian Wang, President, Shanghai Garment Machinery Zone, Mr. Naseer Ahmed, Vice Chairman, Bombay Rayon & Chairman, Scott Garments, and Mr. Inderjit S. Sahni, Chairman & Managing Director, Garment Technology Expo Pvt. Ltd.
GTE’07 International Bangalore had two important delegations from China led by Mr. Weijian Wang, President Shanghai Garment Machinery Zone representing the Chinese associations supporting Garment Technology Expo in India. And the second delegation was led by Ms. He Ye, Vice Chairperson of China Sewing Machine Association, organizer of CISMA.
The garment technology sector in India is fast transforming and GTE provides the apt platform to showcase the best of products from all parts of the world.
The second edition of GTE South India in Bangalore has proved to be a smashing hit with the participants as well as the trade visitors to the exhibition.
The exhibition has met with an unprecedented success amidst growing concerns amongst garment manufacturers and exporters to be competitive and face the challenges of open market competition.
What set the exhibition apart was the state of the art world class exhibition centre of BIEC at Tumkur Road, Nr. Peenya Industrial area from many other similar exhibitions was the sheer size of the space taken by the exhibitors.
Also unique to the exhibition was the convenience and ease for the visitors with drive in parking facility to help them concentrate more on critical issues related to the business and make best use of the opportunity offered by GTE and witness the live demos and display of complete range of machines and material such as Sewing, Embroidery CAD/CAM, Knitting, Dyes & Chemicals, Quilting, Fusing, Laundry, Fabrics, Fancy Yarn, Finishing, Dyeing, Cutting, Printing & Packaging, Software Solutions, Spreading, Spares & Attachments, Accessories & Trims, Testing Equipments, Support Services, IT Solutions, Trade Publications etc.
Over 800 companies and brands were on display and over 16000 trade visitors visited the 3 day fair. The close proximity to the garmenting hub at Peenya and near by clusters played an important role in the huge visitor turnout.
“Though the Indian garment machinery industry is already gearing up to face the international challenges & has started producing world class, high quality laundry & stream finishing machines for Indian as well as international markets. Other segments of the garment machinery industry are also improving upon their quality to come up to the expectations of apparel industry."
"This exposition has gone a long way by offering them an excellent opportunity to get acquainted with the new world trends & upgrade their manufacturing processes by adopting the latest technologies in vogue internationally.
This in turn will assist the Indian apparel manufacturers to produce world class high quality products & face the competition from countries like China , Hong Kong, Eastern Europe, Japan Etc.” said Mr. Inderjit S. Sahni- the organizers of Garment Technology Expo 2007 International Bangalore.
“The garment technology industry in India is thinking futuristic & planning to take on the best in terms of price & quality. Various segments of the industry have been silently working in the background to improve their quality with the objective of helping the domestic readymade garment manufacturers & exporters in their endeavor to produce world class quality products.
The Garment Technology Expo offers an another opportunity to the domestic industry to further upgrade their skills & match the international levels in the times to come.”
