International textile-garment expo opens in HCM City
HCM CITY — The 2023 Vietnam Saigon Textile & Garment Industry – Fabric & Garment Accessories Expo opened in HCM City on April 5, enabling local and foreign producers to explore each other's requirements and tie up.
It features more than 1,300 exhibitors from 21 countries and territories, including India, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Taiwan (China), Germany, the Netherlands, South Korea, Hong Kong (China), the US, Japan, France, Singapore, China, and Italy besides Vietnam.
It is three times bigger than last year's show, underlining the attractiveness of Vietnam's textile and garment industry, Cao Hữu Hiếu, general director of the Vietnam National Textile and Garment Group (VINATEX), said.
The products on display in nearly 2,000 booths include a range of high-end machinery and equipment for weaving, dyeing and high-tech digital printing, computer-aided design and computer-aided manufacturing systems and machines such as spectrophotometers and computerised embroidery machines, he said.
The event will feature seminars on industry-specific movements amid rising inflation and high interest rates; the cotton fibre market in times of economic turbulence and recommendations to businesses; innovative software for garment factories and solutions to improve productivity and quality while cutting production costs; and circular economy for the textile-garment industry towards sustainable development.
Speaking at the opening ceremony, Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Nguyễn Thị Thắng said textile and garment is one of the key manufacturing industries in Vietnam and among the country's largest exporters, with exports topping US$44.5 billion last year, an increase of over 10 per cent.
Organised by VINATEX, the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry's HCM City branch and CP Exhibition, the expo at the Saigon Exhibition and Convention Centre will go on until April 8.
