KARACHI: Around 15 Italian textile machinery manufacturers have confirmed their participation in IGATEX 2006 exhibition, commencing from April 26 to 29 at Karachi Expo Centre.
A leading importer of textile and leather garments machinery, Abdul Quddus Ghouri, on Wednesday said Italian machines are well-known and much appreciated. Pakistan imported Italian textile machinery worth around 73 million euros in 2005.
He said Pakistan needed to improve quality of its textile products. The complete elimination of import quotas in 2005 has affected Pakistani exports, so it is high time for this sector to bring improvements through investments in production processes. He said IGATEX was an interesting meeting point for western textile machinery manufacturers and Pakistani textile operators. He said Italians were much interested to reap the benefit of the unique opportunity offered by Pakistan? textile sector for its machinery exports.
