CTEI News: 2010 China Keqiao International Textile Expo (Spring) is going to hold on May 6-8th in the International Expo Center of China Textile City in Shaoxing, Zhejiang. With the recovery of textile industry and more than 10 years good name, this year��s Keqiao Textile Fair has the following highlights: 1. Clear Idea Attracts Exhibitors Substantive is the major concern of the organizer, which also attract the exhibitors to participate this fair. The invitation began from last fall. The organizer visited Shanghai and Guangzhou to persuade potential exhibitors. To make sure of the good results of this fair, they have sent 200,000 emails, 120,000 mobile messages, and 70,000 fax to the potential buyers and convince them to visit this fair. They also have sent 300,000 invitation letters in other textile trade fairs, and organized marketing events in the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Mexico and Canada to invite international buyers. 2465 buyers has confirmed their visiting to this fair in writing. 923 come from overseas. 2. Low Carbon Concept With the theme of ��Fashion, Quality and Green��, Keqiao Textile Expo is devoted to improve the eco-friendly level of textile industry, and provide a platform for the eco innovation in this industry. Many exhibitors also launch their latest development to meet the requirement for low carbon products, such as digital printing technology which highly reduced the energy consumption. 3. More Celebrated Enterprises Participate More celebrated enterprises participated this fair, such as local manufacturers Yuehong, Red-Green-Blue, Zhongjia, and external companies jiangsu Hengli, Sierke Textile, Zhejiang Natural, Furun and so on. The booths this time reached 816, with 375 exhibitors. 4. Pavilions Appear As one of the largest textile cluster in China, Shaoxing also has the largest textile trade market China Textile City. The proportion of exhibitors from other provinces has exceeded 50%. Pavilions appear this time, such as Guangzhou Pavilion, Chaozhou-Shantou Pavilion, Japan Pavilion, South Korea Pavillion. They organized as a group to display their strength. 5. Two Phases for Segment Market Keqiao Textile Fair (Spring) is divided as two phases this time. For the first phase, the major exhibition is textile fabrics. For the second phase, it is the curtain and cloth expo. This is another progress since the expo was divided as spring edition and fall edition in 2008. With the development of home textile industry, this kind of products has taken almost 1/3 market shares in China Textile City. This is the reason for a separate fair for home textile products this year. 6. Outstanding Accompanying Events To better serve the exhibitors, the organizer also prepared many accompanying events during the fair, including fabric design and development forum, match-making between overseas buyers and textile manufacturers, match-making between fabric manufacturers and designers, and China Fabric Design works display. Besides the information and business opportunities, the fair provide a quality communication platform for the exhibitors and visitors. The organizer will provide relative services such as shuttle bus between hotels and exhibition hall, translation, finance and legal consulting, intellectual right protection, Internet, press release, as well as tea bar and coffee bar for the guests. |