ITM 2024 is Becoming an More and More Global Event
Ramanadane, CEO of LMW said; “The way ITM is organised and the quality of visitors who have come to participate in the exhibition has really given us a great experience. ITM Exhibition is becoming more and more globalised. We welcomed customers from Asia, Africa and Europe.”
LMW is India’s leading textile machinery manufacturer and one of only 3 companies in the world producing the entire range of spinning machines. Established in 1962 to provide the latest spinning technologies to textile mills in India, LMW manufactures the complete range of cotton and synthetic process machinery such as Blowroom, Card, Draw Frame, Comber, Roving and Ring. LMW has a 70% market share in India and exports to many countries including Turkey, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Vietnam.
With proven experience in supporting Turkish spinning investors, LMW has been serving the Turkish market for over 30 years. Having reached dozens of customers to date, LMW has installed complete automation at international standards in spinning, fabric, knitting and weaving mills in Turkey.
Supported by a comprehensive sales and service network and a highly innovative and qualified R&D team, LMW participated in ITM 2024 with its wide product range. As Tekstil Teknoloji magazine, we interviewed with C. Ramanadane, CEO of LMW.
Can you give us some information about the products you highlighted at this year’s exhibition?
Our customers are spread across many geographical regions of Turkey. They produce different types of yarns such as special yarns, melange yarn, coated yarn, open end yarn. The solutions we are offering through this exhibition address many of these segments, especially when it comes to the recycling and regenerative fiber segment. Our card machine, which we are showcasing today at this exhibition, offers a very good solution to spinners who use recycling yarn. Similarly, we showcased our comber, which is a perfect solution for our customers who are producing high quality yarn, comber compact yarn. And when you look at the customers, those who are looking for automation solution and looking for an answer to the problem of labor availability in the country, we showed an automation solution called ring frame A/AX/AXL.
What are your predictions for the future of the Turkish textile industry?
Yes, we have been scanning this market very closely for the last thirty years and we have a very strong presence in this market. And during these three decades we have faced many situations, ups and downs and we see a very bright future for Turkey’s technical industry. We feel strongly that these times have taught spinners good lessons, made them more effective and more prepared to face these challenges. And we feel strongly that the coming days, the coming months, will bring a lot of new demand and new opportunities to these markets as this recovery period is just beginning.
Did the fact that the exhibition was organised in Istanbul, which connects Asia and Europe, satisfy you in terms of visitor diversity?
The way ITM is organized and the quality of the visitors who come to participate in the exhibition has really given us a great experience. It is becoming more and more globalized. We can see visitors coming from other parts of the continent, even from Africa. We have customers came from Europe, from Egypt. And very surprisingly, we also see customers from Indonesia and Bangladesh, even from India.
How was the ITM 2024 Exhibition for you? Did the interest meet your expectations?
We came to the show with a lot of expectations – to showcase our new technology, to meet new users and to get together with our regular users for a good interaction. From this point of view, ITM 2024 really fulfills all our needs. We are interacting with many potential business people and especially with our users, new customers, things are going well, people are showing great interest in our new products and new technology. We are very confident that soon this will result in a good contract and a good deal. If you look at it from this point of view, ITM 2024 is the right platform to showcase our technologies.