The 16th Textile and Garment Machinery Exhibition, to be held from January 9 to 12, 2019, in Bangladesh will be jointly organised by BTMA and Yorkers Trade and Marketing Service Company. It will introduce local entrepreneurs with innovative machinery and transformative technologies.
Around 1,200 machinery manufacturing organisations from 37 countries will participate in the exhibition. These countries include Australia, Austria, Belgium, China, Czech Republic, Brazil, Croatia, Denmark, Finland among others. Spot sales of machinery were registered at $280 million last year and BTMA expects more spot orders this year. Bangladesh, being the second largest exporter of the readymade garments in the world, earned $30.61 billion from export of textiles in the 2017-18 financial year, which is 83.47 per cent of the country’s total export income.
