CEMATEX (the European Committee of Textile Machinery Manufacturers), CTMA (China Textile Machinery Association), CCPIT-Tex (the Sub Council of Textile Industry, China Council for the Promotion of International Trade) and CIEC (China Exhibition Centre Group Corporation) are pleased to announce that they have signed a long term co-operation, starting with a combined textile machinery show in 2008.

This first combined exhibition, “ITMA ASIA + CITME 2008” will be held at the Shanghai New International Expo Centre in Shanghai, PRC from 27 to 31 July 2008.

The partners have agreed in principle to hold a combined ITMA ASIA + CITME exhibition every two years in Shanghai, and it is anticipated therefore that the second show will be held in 2010.

                             Partners sign ITMA Asia + CITME Agreement, left to right:

Mr Fu Rongpei (General Manager, Beijing Textile Machinery International Exhibition Co. Ltd),
Mr Zhang Yankai (Executive Vice Chairman of CCPIT-Tex),
Mr Edward Roberts (President of CEMATEX),
Mr Gao Yong (President of CTMA),
Mr Dong Songgen (President of China International Exhibition Center Group Corp),
Mr James Chia (President of Meeting Planners International Pte Ltd).