French Egyptian seminar on textile machinery manufacturers

This is to be inaugurated in presence of numerous French and Egyptian companies as well as experts and businessmen dealing with textile and related machinery.

Hassan Behnam, Head of Ubifrance regional press office, announced that the seminar is organized by UCMTF, the French Textile Machinery Manufacturers' association, in collaboration with Ubifrance, the French agency for international business development, and the Economic Department of the Embassy of France in Egypt, with the support of ECTI (Egyptian Chamber of Textile Industries), IMC (Industrial Modernisation Center) and the CAFE(French-Egyptian Chamber of commerce).

Ten important French companies will attend the seminar to present their products and know-how and their renovated and modernized technical expertise in the textile industrial domain, besides offering equipments, services for maintenance, output optimization and modernization of the existing equipments.

As part of french textile machinery manufacturers that have established a firm foothold on the international markets, the 10 french companies will also analyze the recent market trends, give suggestions and propose technical solutions to their egyptian counterparts in order to enhance the competitiveness of the Egyptian textile industry in sectors such as cotton and natural fibres, recycling, carpet yarn processing, technical and nonwoven textiles, dyeing and finishing and air conditioning equipments for textile factories.

According to Behnam, the added value of the seminar lies in the fact that France is the third largest exporter of textile machinery in the European Union and the fifth in the world. Having dominant positions in their specialties, the 10 French companies that will participate at the event on October 22nd aim at presenting themselves as true partners of the Egyptian textile industry, thus contributing to its development and provide answers to the needs and requirements of this important industrial sector in Egypt that looks forward to take up the challenges of globalization on domestic as well as international markets.