Shanghai International Exhibition Comoany announced that ShanghaiTex 2006 exhibition booths have been almost fully booked by both original and new exhibitors.

The preparations for the exhibition have now entered the promotion stages where sponsors will launch many schemes to attract target audiences.

ShanghaiTex 2006 will be held in the New International Exhibition Center of Shanghai, located in Pudong from July 5 to 8, 2006. It will consist of 4 exhibition halls measuring a total of 50,000 square meters.

Over 600 exhibitors will come from 19 countries and regions and an audience scale of 50,000 professional visitors is expected. The exhibition is sponsored by the Shanghai Textile Holding (Group) Co., CCPIT Shanghai Branch and China International Chamber of Commerce Shanghai Branch and undertaken by the Shanghai International Exhibition Co. Ltd., Shanghai Textile Technology Service Exhibition Center and Adsale Exhibition Services Ltd.

ShanghaiTex has become one of the largest and most authoritative textile exhibitions in Asia over the past 20 years, since its initiation in 1984. In view of market demand, the sponsors combined a series of professional textile exhibitions, such as the Shanghai International Clothes Industry Exhibition, Shanghai International Knitwear Industry Exhibition and China (Shanghai) International Textile Machinery Exhibition, into one large professional exhibition.

The organizer is sending a trade liaison team to related associations and large industrial groups in order to promote and communicate policies among the exhibition and investigate their willingness/preparations for purchasing equipment and get their appraisal on ShanghaiTex by various parties concerned. During the exhibition, the sponsors will have a trade liaison office to assist purchase of exhibits after the event comes to an end. A press center and IPR office will be established at the exhibition as well.

Four seminars and five technical exchange meetings will also be held during the exhibition. The 2006 National Symposium on Modern Textile Technology Progress and Show of New Products, Public Lectures on New Dying and Conditioning Chemicals and Equipment, National Meeting on Modern Weaving High- Tech and Air-Jet Looms, the Annual Meeting of Technical Cooperation Network for Hydraulic Looms, and Public Lectures on New Technology and Equipment for New Type Spinning and the 9th Large Exchange Meeting on New Type Spinning Technology will all be held.