OTM 2014 16th – 19th October 2014, in two halls with a total of 28.000 square meters covered area in Southeast Anatolia...

ISTANBUL, TURKEY, December 6, 2013 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Tüyap Tüm Fuarcılık & Teknik Fuarcılık, which has organized ITM Texpo Eurasia, which is the only textile machinery exhibition of Turkey and the region, and one of the most important textile machinery exhibitions of the world since 2004, this time made a partnership for a new meeting in Gaziantep, the center of textile investments. The OTM 2014 Middle East Textile Machinery Exhibition which will offer the meeting of the most important technology manufacturers both of Turkey and the world, with the investors will be held on 16th – 19th October 2014, in two halls with a total of 28.000 square meters total covered area, in Gaziantep Middle East Exhibition Center. The OTM 2014, whose allocation and sales works have already begun, will be an important meeting in the region, in which both the incentives and investments have increased specially in recent years.

In the OTM 2014 Exhibition
• Cotton and Fiber Preparation Machinery
• Yarn Preparation Machinery and Accessories
• Yarn Winding Machinery
• Weaving Preparation Machinery
• Weaving Machinery
• Carpet and Tuſting Machinery
• Flat and Circular Knitting Machinery
• Dyeing – Printing – Finishing Machinery
• Textile Chemicals, Laboratory Equipment and Quality Control Systems,
• Embroidery and Quilting Machinery
• Garment Making Machinery
• CAD – CAM – CIM Application and Automation Systems,
• Machine Spare Parts and Accessories

Gaziantep is in the center of the region, where an important increase in the investments in textiles is seen, especially as a result of regional incentives. Other areas of investments which also attract attention are the neighbours of Gaziantep, such as Adıyaman, Diyarbakır, Osmaniye, Şanlıurfa, Kahramanmaraş, Adana, Mardin, Kayseri,Malatya. Moreover, the almost daily flights from Gaziantep to Erbil and the busy customs borders also attract attention. The exports achieved to the Middle East and the countries of the EU is only one of the criteria to tell about the place and the importance of this city of ours within the Turkish economy. The share of Gaziantep and the other cities of Eastern and Southeastern Anatolia within the exports of Turkey have increased in the recent years and the exports of the region have exceeded 4 billion dollars annually. Gaziantep, which is the most important gate opening to the Middle Eastern countries, is also on the Gaziantep, historical Silk Road…
• The region which is continuously renewed especially with the solution process…
• Southeast Anatolian Region has become a center of investment with the investors’ discovering the region recently. 35 % of the textile investments in the Marmara and the Aegean regions is expected to be moved to the Southeast Anatolia within the next 5 years.
• Gaziantep’s exports in 2012 were about 5.9 billion USD, with carpets 1.4 biilion USD, textile and raw materials 932 million USD and garments 98 million USD. Machine made carpets make up the 25% of the exports of
Gaziantep.
• There are 324 textile companies in 4 separate industrial zones in Gaziantep. With these companies,Gaziantep has shares of 82 % in machine and handmade carpets, 95 % in machine made carpets, 92 % in polypropylene yarn, 60 % in tricot – knitted goods and 59 % in nonwoven cloth, compared to total production in Turkey.
• There are 1018 Textile and Raw Materials Companies and 227 Carpet Companies which are members of the exporter unions in Gaziantep.
• There are 249 Textile and Garment Producing Companies in Kahramanmaraş, a neighbouring province of Gaziantep. 82 of these companies produce yarn, 26 of them produce woven fabrics, 43 of them produce knitted fabrics, 47 of them are ginneries, 23 of them produce colorants, 2 of them produce cotton and 26 of them produce ready wear and nonwoven.
• Moreover, in Kahramanmaraş, 35 % of the total yarn production and 10 % of the total cloth production of Turkey is achieved. The city is making preparations to produce the 50 % of the total cotton yarn and 20 % of the total knitted cloth produced in Turkey by 2023; investments are already taking place in order to achieve this target…

Yusuf Akbolat
TEKNIK FUARCILIK LTD.STI.
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