The New Nation - Internet Edition

Staff Reporter

The Fifth Dhaka International Textile and Garments Machinery Exhibition-2008 is to start from January 21 at the Bangladesh China Friendship Conference Centre.

The four-day long exhibition will be jointly organised by the Bangladesh Textile Mills

Association (BTMA), ES Event Management SDN-BHD Malaysia and the Yorker Trade and Marketing Service Company Ltd Hong Kong.

"In the exhibition, 415 machine manufactures will showcase a wide varieties of latest textiles and garments technologies, machineries and parts," said BTMA President Abdul Hye Sarker.

He was addressing a press conference yesterday to formally announce the forth-coming exhibition, at the BTMA office in the capital.

"The main objective of this exhibition is to provide a chance to the small and medium investors and mill owners to modify and chose the latest and most suitable machines for their production houses," said the BTMA President.

According to him, Bangladesh has emerged as one of the most potential market for textiles and garments machineries in the world. This has attracted so many well-reputed machine manufacturer companies to come and display their best products during this exhibition under the same roof, he added.

Representative of ES Event Management SDN-BHD Malaysia Judi Wang and Tiger Lin were also present at the press conference and responded to the media men.

Secretary BTMA Mansoor Ahmed said, more than 730 stalls were so far registered by companies from Austria, Bangladesh, Belgium, Brazil, China, Czech, Denmark, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Netherland, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, UK and USA.

The exhibition will remain open till January 24, 2008.