GT Korea, the only garment machinery and textile industry fair in Korea, was held in 2018 after 12 years had passed since SIMEX 2005. Under the new title, GT Korea 2018 held at KINTEX for three days concluded with the huge presence of 57 exhibitors from 11 countries and 12,300 visitors.
The exhibitors showed a number of advanced automated equipment backed with the state-of-the-art technology. Also, many of the leading local vendors of garments and representatives of the garment/textile industry from China, Vietnam, Philippines, Indonesia, Taiwan, etc., visited the exhibition. The 2018 GT Korea Smart Factory Conference (GTSC) held during the exhibition was a big success with a number of members keenly interested in the presentations made.
The next edition of the exhibition will be held in September 2020. Promotional marketing has started in co-operation with the relevant institutes, associations and companies at home and abroad.
The GT Korea 2020 is expected to be much bigger than the first edition, with as many as 500 booths for 150 exhibitors. Many of the participants in GT Korea 2018 expressed high satisfaction recording an average 3.7 points out of 5 points. The level of satisfaction on developing the industry network was the highest and that on facility operation/management and on opportunity for presenting the new products was also relatively high.
In accordance with such high satisfaction of the Korean exhibitors, the organizers plan to get participation confirmation from leading local companies in advance. Also, they aim to make GT Korea one of the well-known and large international exhibitions covering the overall garment and textile industry through diversified exhibits by encouraging the attendance from local companies.
To attract valuable exhibitors and visitors, the organizers have visited relevant overseas exhibitions like Osaka Sewing Machine Show 2019 in Japan, Techtextil and Texprocess 2019 in Germany, etc. The co-organizers have discussed the co-operation plan with the Taiwan Sewing Machinery Association (TSMA), VDMA of Germany, ACIMIT of Italy and with the organizers of JIAM Show in Japan, CISMA in China and SPESA in the US.
GT Korea 2020 will be held during September 10-12, for 3 days at KINTEX in Ilsan, Gyeonggi Province.