Posted November 27, 2017

 

CHARLOTTE, N.C. and Mexico City – The VDMA Textile Machinery Association reported successful events for the textile industries in the U.S. and Mexico earlier this month.

 

More than 80 decision makers of the U.S. textile, nonwovens and carpet industry, as well as 25 leading textile machinery and accessories manufacturers, participated in the VDMA textile machinery conference on November 6 in Charlotte. The following two-day event on November 8-9 in Mexico City attracted nearly 450 customers and 30 textile machinery and accessories manufacturers, making it one of the most successful events of the VDMA Textile Machinery Association ever.

 

“In light of the high number of participants and the intensity of the discussions regarding concrete investment intentions, the VDMA events have been a big success for our company,” said Hermann Selker, head of Marketing, Trützschler.

 

The conference in Mexico City was addressed by José Cohen Sitton, president of the National Chamber of the Textile Industry CANAINTEX.

 

“German textile machinery and engineering are one of the best in the world," he said.

 

Sitton added that the Mexican textile industry has to invest in order to be on top of technology no matter what the outcome of the ongoing NAFTA negotiations will be.

 

Whereas these two events focused on customers, the training session at the Instituto Politécnico Nacional (Escuela Superior de Ingeniería Textil) in Mexico City on November 10 aimed at future engineers. About 500 textile engineering students followed the

technical presentations from 18 textile machinery and components manufacturers. Company delegates also visited the machinery department of the faculty. The VDMA's contribution to improve the education of future customers was very much appreciated, the association said.

 

“The visit and the technology presentations of the well-known German machinery companies were very well received by our students and by the staff,” said Arturo Arauzo, director of the Escuela Superior de Ingeniería Textil. “We see this visit as the beginning of a partnership between our institute and the German textile machinery industry.”

 

In the U.S. and Mexico, VDMA member companies presented their latest production technologies from spinning to dyeing and finishing. Major topics addressed were digitalization of the textile and textile machinery industry (Industry 4.0 / industrial internet), higher efficiency and profitability, energy, water and material savings, new applications with growth potential, such as composites and nonwovens, higher quality with measurement, control and testing devices, technical training centres.

 

Information on the two events, speakers and content is available on the websites:

www.germantech-ustextile.de and www.germantech-mextextile.de.

 

Participating VDMA member companies at the Charlotte event included:

 

A. Monforts Textilmaschinen, ANDRITZ Kuesters, Autefa Solutions, Brueckner Textile Technologies, DILO Systems + TEMAFA, Lindauer DORNIER, Erhardt+Leimer, Groz-Beckert, Interspare, Körting Hannover, Mahlo, Karl Mayer, Neuenhauser Maschinenbau, PLEVA, Reseda Binder, Georg Sahm, Saurer Components (Saurer Temco), Sedo Treepoint, Textechno Herbert Stein, Thies, Truetzschler, Welker Vakuum, Oerlikon Textile (Barmag and Neumag).

 

Participating VDMA member companies at the Mexico City event included:

 

A. Monforts Textilmaschinen, Allma Volkmann Zweigniederlassung der Saurer Germany, ANDRITZ Asselin-Thibeau, Autefa Solutions, Brueckner Textile Technologies, DILO Systems + Temafa, Erhardt+Leimer, Groz-Beckert, Georg Sahm, Interspare, Jakob Mueller, Körting Hannover, Mahlo, Mayer & Cie., Karl Mayer, Neuenhauser Maschinenbau, Oerlikon Textile (Barmag + Neumag), PLEVA, Reseda Binder, Saurer Components GmbH Branch Hammelburg, Schlafhorst branch of Saurer Germany, Sedo Treepoint, SETEX Schermuly textile computer, Textechno Herbert Stein, Thies, Truetzschler, Welker Vakuum, Xetma Vollenweider.

 

In 2018, the VDMA Textile Machinery Association will be supporting sales and marketing of the member companies through trade fairs (German pavilions), own technical conferences and B2B as well as official trade missions in the following countries: Indonesia, India, the U.S., Belarus, Brazil, Uzbekistan, Iran, China and Egypt.

 

Source: VDMA