Yarn Expo Spring

The specialized trade event Yarn Expo Spring attracted nearly 3,600 visitors from 41 counties and regions 27 - 29 March 2008 at the China World Trade Centre in Beijing. The show is a focused event catering to the textile fibre and yarn industry and featured nearly 100 suppliers from eight countries and regions.

Occupying two halls, or 5,000 sqm, the show featured a complete range of natural, manmade, blended and speciality fibres and yarns for apparel and home textiles. Yarn Expo featured a new special zone this year for companies rated Top Brands by the Chinese government: "The China Top Brand Zone really helped promote our brand to the overseas market. We met a lot of buyers from overseas and China," said Mr Li Xin, Quality Assurance Manager of Bros Holding, China.

Yarn Expo is held concurrently with Intertextile Beijing Apparel Fabrics, a show for textile manufacturers. Many visited Yarn Expo to source their own materials, including Gulistan from Pakistan.

Director Mr Kashif N. Shakoor took a break from exhibiting at Intertextile Beijing to visit Yarn Expo. "We're a very vertical company so we come to Yarn Expo to look at raw materials and fibres," he said. "It's useful to have the two shows at the same time because we're here both as a buyer and a seller. It's also a good place to see trends."

Other visitors came to Beijing entirely for yarns and fibres. "I heard about this show in Thailand and flew here directly to attend. I'm very interested in Chinese yarn and the products here are good quality, especially the natural yarn and speciality yarn products.

For me, the show is worth visiting and it's a very good opportunity to see and source all kinds of yarn products," said Mr Vitaya Likittanawong, Marketing Manager for Lee Viwat Textile Industry, Thailand.

Yarn Expo, held in Beijing in the spring and Shanghai in the autumn, is organized by Messe Frankfurt (HK) Ltd, the Sub-Council of Textile Industry - CCPIT, China Cotton Textile Association, China Wool Textile Association, China Chemical Fibre Association, China Bast & Leaf Fibres Textiles Association, and China Textile Information Centre.