It ain't fashion, if it ain't sustainable

Harald Weber

PRESS RELEASE / Event

15 October 2024

6 minutes

VDMA: Smart Technologies for Green Textile Production

FRANKFURT, GERMANY: With 42 exhibiting member companies, ITMA Asia + CITME 2024 is once again marked by a strong presence of VDMA companies. They cover nearly all different machinery chapters with a focus on spinning and man-made fibers, nonwovens, weaving, braiding, knitting & warp knitting, finishing & dyeing as well as technologies for textile...

PRESS RELEASE / Announcement

14 August 2024

2 minutes

The German Pavilion will be located in Pavilion 4 of the Uzexpocentre in Tashkent.

VDMA Members to Participate in CAITME Expo

Frankfurt, Germany: CAITME, taking place from 11 to 14 September in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, will see a strong participation of VDMA member companies. About 25 VDMA members will take part in the event.

Among the numerous VDMA companies present at the trade fair with their own booth or through agents, 13 companies will be exhibiting in the area of the...

PRESS RELEASE / Event

24 May 2024

2 minutes

For the textile machinery manufacturers organised in the VDMA, Turkey is a major trading partner. In 2023, textile machinery and accessories worth approximately 350 million euros were exported from Germany to Turkey, which made Turkey the second biggest sales market for German companies.

ITM Istanbul to See Strong VDMA Participation

Frankfurt, Germany: ITM, to be held in Istanbul at the beginning of June, will once again see a strong participation of VDMA member companies. Almost 90 exhibitors from Germany will exhibit at the trade fair, most of whom are members of the VDMA. In addition to the VDMA member companies exhibiting with their own booth, numerous VDMA members will be...

PRESS RELEASE / Event

1 December 2023

3 minutes

The latest survey of VDMA members' subsidiaries in China gives reason to hope that the economic situation in the Chinese textile industry could also improve significantly in the second half of the year.

ITMA Asia + CITME: A success for VDMA member companies

Frankfurt, Germany: This year’s edition of ITMA Asia + CITME proved to be a success for the exhibiting VDMA member companies. Measured by booked square metres, Germany had the largest contingent, among the foreign exhibitors. More than 40 VDMA member companies were exhibiting their innovative products in Shanghai.

Dr. Janpeter Horn, chairman of the...

Machinery / VDMA Outlook

8 May 2023

5 minutes

In March, the mechanical and plant engineering sector in Germany recorded a real decline in orders of 6 percent. A small ray of hope after several months of double-digit declines, but not yet a turnaround.

Bottlenecks from Disrupted Supply Chains Now Easing Considerably

The VDMA or Verband Deutscher Maschinen-und Anlagenbau or the German Engineering Federation, representing more than 3,600 German and European mechanical and plant engineering companies, employs around 3 million people in the EU-27 with more than 1.2 million in Germany alone. Focused on innovation, exports and SMEs, around 80% of the machinery sold in the EU comes from manufacturing plants in the domestic market. texfash.com in conversation with Dr Harald Weber, who has been the Managing Director of the VDMA Textile Machinery Association since January 2023.

Richa Bansal

Interview

Exclusive

PRESS RELEASE / Appointment

8 November 2022

1 minute

(from left to right): Dr. Harald Weber and Thomas Waldmann.

VDMA: Dr. Harald Weber new Managing Director of the Textile Machinery Association

Frankfurt, Germany: Dr. Harald Weber will become the new managing director of the VDMA Textile Machinery Association on 1 January 2023. The 44-year-old industrial engineer succeeds Thomas Waldmann, who has held the position since 1991 and will retire at the end of the year.

After completing his doctorate at the Technical University of Darmstadt and...