ITMA ASIA, CITME 2018, Textile Fair was held in Shanghai, China from 23 to 27 October. This is the largest international textile machinery and equipment industry in Asia, where every year, all manufacturers of machinery, components and raw materials of this industry will be present at this exhibition.

ITMA ASIA + CITME 2018, the region’s leading textile machinery exhibition, ended successfully after five days of exciting product demonstrations and business networking. The sixth combined exhibition welcomed visitorship of over 100,000 from 116 countries and regions, with an increase of 10 per cent from domestic visitors compared to the 2016 show. About 20 per cent of the visitors came from outside of China. Of the overseas participants, Indian visitors top the list, reflecting the strong growth of its textile industry. Following closely were trade visitors from Japan, China Taiwan, Korea and Bangladesh. The total exhibition area at ITMA ASIA + CITME 2018 grossed 180,000 square metres and spanned seven halls. A total of 1,733 exhibitors from 28 countries and regions demonstrated their latest technological products that focus on automation and sustainable production. Following the successful staging of the 2018 edition, the next ITMA ASIA + CITME will be held in October 2020 at the National Exhibition and Convention Centre (NECC) in Shanghai.

Betex booth at ITMA Asia 2018

Groz-Beckert at ITMA Asia 2018

STOLL at ITMA Asia 2018

 In the area of knitting machine technology, STOLL presented the new ADF 830-24 W knit & wear with the multi gauge E7.2 to the public for the first time. At the booth a knit & wear pullover with plating technique was presented. Also from the area of knit & wear STOLL introduced the new CMS 830 HP knit & wear in multi gauge E9.2. STOLL’s technology convinces with other exhibition machines such as the CMS 330 HP W TT sport, CMS 502 HP + Bc and ADF 530-24.

STOLL’s knitelligence® is a modular system that combines all of STOLL’s software solutions under one platform and covers the entire value chain of flat-knit production. From design to production, knitelligence® can be easily integrated into existing customer processes. The topic “networking and digitalization of processes” was the focus and attracted numerous visitors to the STOLL exhibition booth. In order to illustrate the new software solutions in the best possible way, there have been live demonstrations that impressively illustrated the workflow of knitelligence®.

Visitors were able to edit their own images and motifs in Photoshop plug-in STOLL-artwork® and convert them directly into a knitting program via STOLL-autocreate® and knit them on site. This was the perfect souvenir for anyone interested.Besides all these innovations and improvements, STOLL offered visitors another highlight. Four seminars in the area of Technical Textiles, Digital Knits, STOLL-artwork® and knit & wear were available for those interested. As expected, the seminars were well attended and thus found great approval among the visitors. The participation at the ITMA ASIA + CITME in Shanghai was again a great success. STOLL is already looking forward to new, exciting projects and the ITMA Barcelona from the 20th to the 26th of June 2019.