"Texhibition Istanbul Fabric and Textile Accessories Fair", which will welcome above thousand qualified buyers from more than 100 countries specifically from the EU, US, Russia, Ukraine, Middle East and North Africa, to Istanbul, will take place between 16th to 18th of March 2022. Winning a fair with an international fair concept in which major trends will be determined, fashion oriented companies will supply, and various designs and colors will be exhibited, under the leadership of İTHİB and İTO. At the fair, more than 200 companies will exhibit where local companies in knitted fabrics, woven fabrics, indigo and textile accessories will showcase their products.
In addition to the B2B meetings to be held at Texhibition Istanbul Fair, trend areas, seminars, workshops and fashion shows that will combine design, interaction and experience led by digital transformation, technical textiles and sustainability trend topics.
Turkish textile industry: The Safest Port of the Global Supply Chain
While underlining that the importance of Turkish textile industry as the safest port for global brands, Istanbul Textile and Raw Materials Exporters' Association (İTHİB) President Ahmet Öksüz said, “We expect to finalize the year 2021 with 12.7 billion dollars’ worth of exports. In 2022, our target is to increase our share in global trade even further by achieving 15 billion dollars export. In this context, as ITHIB, we organize national participation organizations in the world's leading fairs, and with industrial trade and procurement committees, bring our companies together with global brands. Many countries have failed to pass through challenging pandemic. However, as the Turkish textile industry, we were able to combine our logistics capability with integrated production power, and we passed successfully this difficult test and proved once again that Turkey is the safest trade port.”
The Fair Will Contribute 1 Billion Dollars to the Exports of the Sector
İTHİB President Ahmet Öksüz stated that Texhibition Istanbul Fair will take the textile industry one step further: “Our fair cannot be avoided as it has critical importance to move global supply chain to Turkey sustainably. In this context, our expectations revolving around to bring in around 1 billion dollars with our Texhibition Istanbul Fair to add up to our export target that is 15 billion dollars. The fair does not only serve our companies to become together with global brands but also will provide an opportunity to voice our industry’s sustainability approach, R&D and innovation projects, and design perception to the whole world regions. We are proud to run our fair, which is one of the projects that our industry needs the most, altogether. We are the 5th largest textile exporter in the world. We foresee that the fair we will organize will be incremental in our mid to long term goal to be the top three textile exporting countries in the world.”
Turkish Textile Industry Continues to Close Current Account Deficit
Emphasizing that the Turkish textile industry is of great importance for the country's economy, Istanbul Chamber of Commerce (ITO) President Şekib Avdagiç said, “Textile is one of our industries that adapts itself to the epidemic conditions in the fastest way, despite the negativities brought by the pandemic. I am confident that within the time period in which the effects of pandemic losing its influence, physical events will also be strengthened as digital ones. Texhibition Istanbul Fair has a special importance for the management of our Chamber and industry representatives. Because the idea of organizing fair dated back to bi-lateral meetings between 156 foreign buyers and 42 Turkish fabric manufacturers and us in March 2019. With the idea formed there, we laid the foundations of the fair. Our story, which started with bilateral meetings, will turn into a great and an epic in international fair organization in the future. This has been with the belief of our industry in production and export. It has been made possible by the production quality and capacity of the industry, its design power and innovative attitude.”
Stating that the heart of the textile industry will beat in Istanbul with the Texhibition Istanbul Fair, Şekib Avdagiç said, “Visitors from various countries of the world will have the opportunity to see how persistent Turkey is in the fabric and accessories industry at Texhibition Istanbul. This gives textiles a route to Istanbul to become the heart of textiles. Since we are organizing fair with the support of ministry of Commerce and with İTHİB regarded as the leading institution, we are sharing our proud as İTO. We have the ability to produce textiles for every continent of the world regions and for every folk living on earth. While producing globally, we can increase our exports even more with local thinking, differences in business conduct, and with our small touches focused on the target market.”
