CITI to organise ATEXCON 2005

The first Asian Textile Conference (ATEXCON), a two-day annual event is being held in New Delhi from December 1-2, 2005. The conference will be a regular feature and will be held every year.

The conference will provide a forum for exchange of ideas and for coordinating business activities in the textile front. Eminent speakers and participants from all Asian countries involved in textiles, clothing, textile machinery and allied products will be invited. In addition, speakers and importers from western countries would also be invited so that there will be interaction between suppliers and importers.

The Indian Cotton Mills’ Federation (ICMF), the apex body of the organized textile mill industry of India, established in 1958, was recently re-named Confederation of Indian Textile Industry (CITI). In a function held on 22nd July 2005, the honourable vice president of India formally launched CITI and its logo. The now broad-based CITI include organizations representing all the segments of the textile and clothing sector of India including cotton mills, manmade spinning and weaving units, woollen mills, units manufacturing garments, textile machinery manufacturers and all such other units which are in production of textile and allied goods.

Representing the entire textile and clothing sector, CITI will project the textile industry properly to the domestic and international consumers. It will ensure a coordinated approach to all national and international developments affecting the textile sector. The sectoral conflicts which were the result of improper coordination of activities between various textile organizations would be gone and the entire textile and clothing industry would come together under one umbrella organization.