pictures by Ganesh Kalidasan
Indo InterTex 2012, the 10th Indonesia International Textile and Garment Machinery & Accessories Exhibition, was held concurrently with INATEX 2012, the 10th International Textile, Fibres, Yarns, Fabrics, Garments, Home Textiles, and Textile Accessories Exhibition, at Jakarta International Expo Kemayoran during April 19-22.
Indo InterTex is a textile and garment machinery exhibition organized on an international scale. With Indonesia as the host nation, this event seeks to provide new and innovative solutions to tackle the threats posed by globalization of businesses, especially to textile and garment machine manufacturers in Indonesia. The venue for this trade show allowed attendees to meet industry experts and gather important information on this sector.
Peraga Nusantara Jaya Sakti PT and Expostar Global Event Ltd. jointly organized Indo InterTex 2012. With the support of the Indonesian Textile Association (API), it was a good platform, especially for updating the national-related TPT players with the latest industry and market developments in the textile and garment sector. The theme of this year’s event was Innovative Solution towards Global Competition.
The exhibition focused on the display of a wide variety of textile and garment machinery and accessories, many of which were launched for buyers to view and analyze.
Here are some of the special comments made by the leading exhibitors :
“First of all, I must appreciate and congratulate the organizers for such a good event. The infrastructure provided is fantastic, time management is spot on. Also the quality of customer has been excellent. First two days comprised of a lot of top-level decision makers which really kept us on toes. But I really appreciate the support I have received in this year’s expo. Also this year’s expo has helped us bag a couple of orders in a short span of time for our newly launched TERASPIN.”
Mr. Laxmikant S. Rathi, Vice President (Spinning Accessories & Exports), A.T.E.
“The response has been very good, and the customers who visiting our stall have shown a lot of interest. A lot of visitors from the General Manager cadre visited our stalls in the last 3 days. Overall the response has been very good when compared to the same exhibition 2 years back. Bakaert is the leader in terms of market share in Indonesia and also globally strengthening its presence as well.”
Mr. B.L. Bhattak, Sales Director – India & South-East Asia, Bekaert
“Crosrol has been doing great in many Asian countries like Vietnam, Bangladesh, Pakistan and also in India and Indonesia. When considering the investment part, we are expecting a few countries like Myanmar, Indonesia and Bangladesh to show better progress in terms of huge investments in spinning and weaving verticals, and hence we are focusing more on markets. Crosrol has a presence in the Indonesian market for the last 30 years. Our plan is to reduce the distance between the customer and the machinery supplier. This expo’s response has been OK for this textile climate. Acquired some good enquires from projects which are still on paper stage. Maybe by September the market would be in a much better position.”
Mr. Jawahar Perumal, Regional Director, Crosrol
“The crown that showed up on the first day was not so good, but the response on quality of crowd that turned up to our stall on the second and third day was very good. Almost all our customers have visited our stall and happy with their response. LCC has been present in the Indonesian market for more than 10 years. We are confident that it will keep up much more than other Asian countries would within the textile industry. Lots of new projects in the pipeline, and so people are negotiating with our prices. The ambience and infrastructure is very good for business compared to Bangung.”
Mr. R. Jagadeesan, Vice President – Corporate Admn., Lakshmi Card Clothing & Mfg. Co. Ltd.
“Since last year there has been turbulence in yarn prices which has disturbed our customers in a big way. But towards the end of last year, things were beginning to stabilize, and this year things have started to move forward and have helped us reach our budget. The Government is very supportive in Indonesia and is helping the entire industry and manufacturers to grow well. We are very happy to welcome a lot of our existing customers. A lot of new enquires for new diversifications within the textile industry and enquiries for our new machines. Overall very good, and happy about the exhibition.”
Mr. Henry Tio, Chairman, Groz-Beckert
“The overall response is good. The people who have visited our stall have predominantly been very influential people. The quality of response in this show when compared to other shows has been excellent. The infrastructure is much better when compared to Bandung. Elgi has a presence in the Indonesian market for the past 4-5 years. Texmach Impex is our new agent and we hope to do better in this market in the years to come. Next to China and India, Indonesia is the most important market for us in Asia. The market in Indonesia is better with lots of investors around.”
Mr. K. Sivakumar, AGM – Marketing, Elgitex
“The response was good both in terms of quality and quantity, so no complains. Suessen has a strong presence in the Indonesian market for the past 5-6 years. The facilities are much better in Jakarta and were organized very professionally. I’m positive that the global textile scenario will change due to the very fact that population is growing. So textiles as an industry will grow. But the question is which country it will grow. If not for China, India and Indonesia, there is no place for this huge industry. But I’m very much convinced that there would be stability in this business within the next 6 months.”
Mr. Peter Stahlecker, Managing Director, Suessen
“The response is good. The positive thing is that the country is planning to grow with 70% more spindleage. And when more spindles are sold, more parts are required at various processes. And in the Indonesian market, all the people have a good rapport for Indian products. Most of the Indian-owned mills in Indonesia prefer Indian products due to better quality when compared to Chinese products. Some new customers have requested us to send bobbins for testing, and with the existing customers; there are already a lot of orders. Naval has its presence in the Indonesian market since 1990 and currently has good market share in the business.”
Mr. Naval Tibrewala, Chairman, Naval
“The exhibition this time was in terms of area and the number of exhibitor participants and is quite well organized. The quality and quantity of customers in the last 2-3 days have been really good. Also the exhibition space is much better than the Bandung fairgrounds. We had visitors from Solo, Surabaya, and nearly 70-75% of the entire spinning industry of Indonesia has come. Having a presence in the Indonesian market for the part 12 years, we are the most dominant player here with a market share of nearly 47% for ring travellers. This exhibition is more of a PR exercise for us, since we are already supplying to most of them. Our Indonesian agent, PT Texmach IMPEX, has vast knowledge about the Indonesian market and has offices in Jakarta, Bandung and Solo.”
Mr. J.M. Balaji, Head – Marketing, Lakshmi Ring Travellers (CBE) Ltd.
“The exhibition so far has been quite good. We have had a lot of good quality customers decision makers, technical people and also people from the shopfloor level. We got good exposure for all the machineries and accessories in the market. By and large we have been very busy due to our large customer base consisting of more than 100 customers, and most of them have come and visited. Overall, the exhibition is a big success. The frequency of having this exhibition once in every 2 years is adequate and the organizers made a good decision of having this exhibition here in Jakarta compared to Bandung. More visitors from Central Jawa, Surabaya, Solo, Semarang and Bandung. Precitex has been present for more than 10 years in this market and has already well establish its presence here. We have TEXCOMS as our agent here, and we are very committed to the Indonesian market.”
Mr. Diven G. Dembla, Managing Director, Precitex
“The exhibition is quite good especially for the Indonesian market. A lot of quality customers turned up at our stall. Simta already has a well-established presence in this market and so we have received very good feedback from the customers. This exhibition is basically for meeting all our clients under one roof, rather than making separate visits to their offices. In Indonesian we have been selling our products for the past 10 years through TEXCOMS and enjoy a good percentage of market share in this region. Predominantly known for its spindle tapes and clearer rollers, Simta has received a lot of repeat orders from customers, through the word of mouth and is very happy with the response.”
Mr. Senthil Kumar, Director, Simta
“Overall the exhibition was quite busy, and we have received many customers. This is also due to our strong presence in this market. We had courtesy visits from most of the old and existing customers and also a few existing customers showed interest in expanding their business. We feel that the Indonesian market is growing due to the increase in sales of our machines in this market especially at the beginning of this year. I’m very positive about the quality of customers who came to our stall. We have received huge enquires during the show.”
Dr. Enrico Zanetti, Managing Director, Stalam
“The quality of customers was much better this year when compared to the last 2 shows in Indonesia. We are here to promote our product and we have had very good response. Compared to last year, the market in Indonesia is slowly picking up. Globally the industry seems to be under heavy problems, but our drop in sales in the rest of the world was compensated by the growing market in Turkey.”
Mr. Peter GAIL, Manager, Staubli
“We have been very pleased with the response. We are very pleased with the quality of visitors who showed up at our stall with enquiries, both old and new. For the fir
st time, Picanol is having its presence in this exhibition with its own booth and the response received so far been very positive. We have had visitors from all over Jawa, Bandung and Central Jawa. Even though Bandung is a major hub, we see a lot of activities in Central Jawa, Solo, Semarang, etc., and Jakarta in between is a neutral place and a good venue to have this expo. Picanol has been selling machines for more than 4 decades in Indonesia and has established a separate office. This shows our commitment to the Indonesian market.”
Mr. Tanim Chowdhury, General Manager, Picanol
