第十四届国际纺织机械展览会染整设备侧记

第十四届国际纺织机械展览会(ITMA)于2003年10月22～29日在英国伯明翰国家展览中心举办。与ITMA’99相比，本届展览会的展出面积、参展商数、参观人数都略有下降，总体来看具有以下趋势：跨国跨行业合作更加紧密；机械设备功能性改变不多；数码印花设备有了很大的发展；数字化纺织机械已成发展方向；针织物的平幅连续染整设备备受关注。

View of ITMA 2003

The 14th edition of the international textile machinery exhibition was held at Birmingham National Exhibition Center, Oct. 22-29. Global textile machinery producers and suppliers to the textile industry gathered at the Center to showcase their latest innovations. Compared with the ITMA1999, figures of showfloor and visitors had a certain decrease. The following trends are apparent: cooperation between international companies are much closer, digital printing machines become a focus, digitalization plays a more and more important role in textile machine manufacturing, finishers are more concerned about the open-width machines for knitted goods.