Intertextile Shanghai Apparel Fabrics, the most important textile trade fair in the world, is to open for four days from 19 October 2010 at the Shanghai New International Exhibition Centre. Nearly 2,500 industry suppliers from 20 countries and regions including Austria, Belgium, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Korea, Pakistan, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan China, Thailand, Turkey, the UK, and the US will be participating.
Occupying ten exhibition halls on 115,000 sqm of trade space, thousands of products will be displayed, all revolving around innovations, the latest trends, new industry ideas as well as design insights. This year, some international suppliers will be categorised by country and region pavilions including Italy, Korea, Germany, Taiwan, and Thailand with new pavilions from India and Indonesia (W1 -W2). Where as some suppliers will be divided into special group pavilions (W1 - W3).
Additional features this year include an accessories area (E6 & E5) that has increased 25% in exhibition space, an improved textile designer studio zone renamed: ??Verve for Design??(W2), a swimwear & lingerie fabric zone (W3), plus a debut denim zone (W3) with 80 suppliers participating this year. Meanwhile, domestic suppliers will be divided into product end use halls (W3 - W4 and E1-E5) such as ladieswear, shirtings, suitings, functional/ sportswear and casualwear.
This year, Intertextile Shanghai Apparel Fabrics will also host a number of new informative seminars ranging in topics from 2011/12 A/W trend forecasts, accessories and trim updates to product presentations, market information and business strategy, as well as technology solutions and certifications.
Equally as important are the colourful trend forums highlighting Autumn/Winter 2011-12 apparel fabrics and related products forecasted by Intertextile Directions trend committee and Fabrics China that can be found in halls W2, E2, E4 and E5 as well as the Accessories Display Forum in E6 -presenting the latest product development and innovations.
