MILAN — March 18, 2023 — Immediately after a good 2022, the Italian textile machinery market seems to be with optimism to the present 12 months. In 2023, soon after 8 several years, ITMA, the most vital trade good in the sector, returns to Milan. It is an option to spotlight the excellence of Italian technological know-how and encourage new investments in the textile marketplace.
Promoted by ACIMIT, the Association of Italian Textile Machinery Brands, a push convention was held on 15 March at Villa Frua (Stresa, Italy) to unveil Italian participation in ITMA, the primary textile equipment exhibition, scheduled from 8 to 14 June at Fiera Milano – Rho.
Through the party, Alessandro Zucchi, President of ACIMIT, showed the preliminary figures for 2022. Both equally Italian manufacturing and exports of textile equipment enhanced by much more than 10{5e37bb13eee9fcae577c356a6edbd948fa817adb745f8ff03ff00bd2962a045d} as opposed to the preceding 12 months. The manufacturing value exceeded 2.6 billion euro. Of this value, 87{5e37bb13eee9fcae577c356a6edbd948fa817adb745f8ff03ff00bd2962a045d}, or around 2.3 billion euro, was realised overseas. Italian exports went largely to Asia and Europe. All round, the two spots absorbed 79{5e37bb13eee9fcae577c356a6edbd948fa817adb745f8ff03ff00bd2962a045d} of overseas profits. China, Turkey, India and the United States of The united states were being the key locations of Italian gross sales overseas in 2022.
Alessandro Zucchi: “The beneficial success do not, on the other hand, terminate out the hurdles that companies nevertheless confront in this time period. The essential concerns following the Covid-19 pandemic have been amplified by the ongoing Russian-Ukrainian conflict. Even in this early 2023, unfavourable disorders to enterprise continue to exist, such as higher inflation, constraints on the functioning of price chains, and strength commodity charges previously mentioned the typical of modern years. On the other hand, forecasts geared up by our Financial Office show an enhancement in the 2nd half of the yr and in the 2024-26 period, which presents us hope”.
With these forecasts, ITMA 2023, the top trade honest for the textile equipment sector, to be held in June in Milan, could be the driving drive ready to encourage investment decision in the textile sector, not only the Italian a single. Zucchi commented: “Our makers are quite self-assured about upcoming June’s function. As proven by the figures on the Italian existence at the party: nearly 400 Italian exhibitors, about 36,000 sq. metres, with an raise in the occupied surface area area of about 20{5e37bb13eee9fcae577c356a6edbd948fa817adb745f8ff03ff00bd2962a045d} compared to the prior edition held in Barcelona. 30{5e37bb13eee9fcae577c356a6edbd948fa817adb745f8ff03ff00bd2962a045d} of the total exhibition spot at ITMA 2023 will be taken up by Italian equipment manufacturers”.
Through the press conference, the various initiatives that ACIMIT, with the assist of – Italian Trade Company (ITA), has put in area to boost Italian participation in ITMA have been introduced. Roberto Luongo, the Common Director of ITA, said: “The Italian textile equipment sector represents 1 of the primary production sectors for our country due to its strong projection on worldwide marketplaces. Our textile systems are deemed to be of a high excellent amount, and for us at ITA this represents an factor of wonderful pride and pleasure, which pushes us to assist Italian companies in an ever more persuaded and decisive fashion, as a result of an powerful collaboration, now consolidated and analyzed, with ACIMIT. ITMA is a exclusive opportunity for the Italian textile machinery business, due to the higher selection of exhibitors and the tens of thousands of readers it generally appeals to.
As ITA we have for that reason prepared, in accordance with ACIMIT, an in depth undertaking aimed at promoting the Italian textile equipment sector as a result of the enhancement of the a few motorists that distinguish it: know-how, digitalization and sustainability. We will have an incoming of 140 leading foreign consumers from 25 unique Nations this will be accompanied by an intense and common conversation marketing campaign in Italy and abroad that will significantly add to escalating the existence at the occasion of qualified operators from all in excess of the earth. There will be numerous schooling gatherings, concentrating predominantly on the improvements offered by Italian firms at ITMA 2023, with a exclusive concentration on sustainable technologies and digitisation procedures. And then there will be the Italian Textile Technology Awards, organised by ITA and ACIMIT.
Prizes will be awarded to the 18 most deserving students from textile universities in people International locations the place Italian Textile Technologies Education Centres are energetic or are remaining established up: Bangladesh, India, Mongolia, Pakistan, Peru and Vietnam”.
The marketing marketing campaign by social and conventional channels was also particularly substantial. The thought that distinguishes ACIMIT conversation things to do to ITMA 2023 is SHAPING THE Long term. “The Italian textile equipment sector, points out the president of ACIMIT, has shown in recent yrs that it is aware how to seem forward to build innovation and reinforce a technological leadership that is now proven and recognised internationally. Shaping the long term is a strategy that aims to show how Italian companies are key players in the progress of the whole textile provide chain, equipped to define virtuous paths that testify to the proactive nature of the complete sector and that help the potential of the sector to be formed by way of the three pillars, technology, digitalization, and sustainability, which are also the critical themes of ITMA 2023”.
At the Milan version of ITMA, a trade display that has always been characterized by the high degree of innovation of its technological proposals, sustainability and digitalization will be the primary topics of discussion. Alessandro Zucchi: “The textile provide chain is shifting in direction of ever more aggressive generation procedures, where the reduction of creation costs, by way of decrease consumption of h2o, energy and raw elements, is put together with interest to the surroundings. Equally critical is the ongoing electronic transformation of businesses, a approach that will allow know-how suppliers and their clients to operate additional and extra constructively and efficiently”.
All through the convention on the matter of sustainability and digitalization, 5 ACIMIT member firms also spoke, bringing their firm experiences: Flainox, Itema, Marzoli, Salvadè, Sperotto Rimar. Their contributions highlighted the validity of the tasks that ACIMIT has been pursuing for some years now in the field of sustainability and digitalization, specifically the Sustainable Systems project, with the Green Label as the main of the initiative, and the digital certification named ACIMIT Digital Prepared. Both of those initiatives testify to the dedication of Italian producers in two areas of strategic importance to consolidate the management of Italian textile technological know-how also in the foreseeable future.
With the Inexperienced Label, certifying the environmental and economic general performance of textile machinery, member firms undertake to lower the CO2 emissions of their machines by way of continual technological advancement. With Electronic Completely ready, on the other hand, the goal is to standardize the manufacturing and administration information of Italian textile equipment and their capacity to be digitally integrated at the customer’s plant. Alessandro Zucchi concluded: “We believe that the foreseeable future of textiles that we want to condition lies in a sustainable and digitised technological supply”
Posted: March 18, 2023
Source: ACIMIT, the Affiliation of Italian Textile Machinery Suppliers
