Three Major Textile Trade Shows To Colocate In Atlanta In 2010

Three major US-based textile industry trade shows — the American Textile Machinery Exhibition – International (ATME–I)/Megatex, Techtextil North America (TTNA) and SPESA Expo — will colocate and align with one another at the Georgia World Congress Center (GWCC) in Atlanta for Textile & Sewn Products Industry Week 2010, scheduled to take place May 18-20, 2010.

The three exhibitions will be held in adjacent halls at the GWCC, allowing attendees to take in all three shows and their associated educational, networking and other special activities.

ATME–I, a quadrennial exhibition organized by Atlanta-based Mack Brooks Exhibitions Inc. and sponsored by the Falls Church, Va.-based American Textile Machinery Association, moved to Atlanta in 2006 from its long-time venue in Greenville. The show, touted by its organizers as the largest of its kind in the Americas, features the full spectrum of textile machinery, technology and services.

TTNA and its associated symposium, organized by Atlanta-based Messe Frankfurt USA, have been held biennially in Atlanta since 2000, presenting a comprehensive, vertical array of nonwovens and technical textiles machinery, technologies, services and end-products; in addition to a series of seminars covering research and development, emerging technologies and applications, and other topics of interest to the industry. The show will become an annual event beginning next year, with an Atlanta venue in even-numbered years and a West Coast venue in odd-numbered years.

SPESA Expo, organized by the Raleigh, N.C.-based Sewn Products Equipment & Suppliers of the Americas (SPESA), is a triennial exhibition and symposium focusing on equipment, technology and services for the Western Hemisphere and global sewn products industry, encompassing apparel, leather and footwear, home furnishings, upholstered furniture, technical textiles, and transportation interiors. Held in Miami Beach, Fla., since 2004, the expo will move to Atlanta for its next edition.

“The colocation of ATME–I/Megatex with Techtextil North America and SPESA Expo provides a dynamic platform for the textile industry in the Americas,” said ATMA Chairman Jay White Jr., Morrison Textile Machinery Co. “We expect excellent customer attendance from the entire textile processing and applications chain. This will be a very significant event for our industry with numerous networking opportunities, educational seminars and business and technical workshops alongside the trade shows themselves. Anyone who is in the textile business in the Americas should recognize that this is a ‘must-attend’ event.”

May 6, 2008