Coronavirus epidemic, which came out in Wuhan, China in December 2019, continues to spread rapidly despite all measures have been taken up to date. The virus, which cost the lives of many people, also negatively affected the Chinese economy. However, many countries stopped supplying products from China. Global brands and their collaborative from the textile and apparel industry have shifted their manufacturing of products to different countries. At this point, fairs, which are of great importance for various sectors, especially for the textile industry, also affected from the virus. FESPA Global Print Expo 2020, which is known as the Europe's largest screen printing and digital large format printing, textile printing and screen printing fair, is on the agenda with serious measures have been taken against the virus within the scope of the fair
Chinese Companies That Do Not Pass the Regulations Will Not Be Exhibited
Fair officials announced that they have officially contacted all Chinese exhibitors who will take part in three co-located exhibitions organized within the scope of FESPA, Madrid 2020, effective from 20 February 2020. Some prerequisites and pre-conditions have been worked out, covering all the representatives of the companies participating in the exhibitions. To accelerate the participation of the Chinese exhibitors in the fair, it was announced as a prerequisite for companies that must be satisfied that who do not have any long or short-term visits to China or documented evidence that they did not take place after March 5, 2020 or before this date. It was underlined that Chinese company representatives who do not meet the specified conditions will not be given admittance officially to Madrid 2020 Events. With this drastic measure they have applied, FESPA officials underlined that they are aiming to minimize the negative effects of the virus outbreak and that a successful fair will take place by making adjustments in the light of current information shared by WHO (World Health Organization)
Numerous Fairs Have Faced Postponement Or Cancellation
In many countries, many fairs have been postponed or cancelled to an unknown date in order to alleviate the widespread of the outbreak. Intertextile Shanghai Ready-to-Wear Fabrics - Spring Edition, Intertextile Shanghai Home Textile and Yarn Expo, which were planned to be held at the National Exhibition and Congress Center in Shanghai between March 11th and 13th, were all postponed to an unconfirmed date. The postponement or cancellation of the fair dates also present for Apparel Sourcing Week 2020, which was planned to be held in Bengalura-India, IGATEX, one of the important Textile fairs of Pakistan, was planned to be held in Bangladesh, Dhaka International Textile and Clothing Machinery, Asia Apparel Expo, Prolight + Sound Guangzhou, SPS - Industrial Automation Fair Guangzhou (SIAF) and Asiamold and Toy & Edu, Baby & Stroller and Shenzhen China fairs have also postponed with other events
