“All About Sustainability Zone is returning to Intertextile Shanghai with a 10% increase in scale”, Intertextile reported on 4 October 2016 on www.messefrankurt.com.

With a new record of visitors and participants, the 2016 Autumn Edition of Intertextile Shanghai Apparel Fabrics completed its success story last month. Over 70,000 buyers from 90 countries and regions visited the fair to explore a wide range of sourcing options displayed by more than 4,500 exhibitors from 29 countries and regions. The top 10 visiting countries and regions, excluding Mainland China, were Hong Kong, Korea, Japan, Taiwan, the US, India, Russia, the UK, Thailand and Indonesia as Messe Frankfurt reported. 

Located in Hall 5.2, the All About Sustainability zone featured the acclaimed OEKO-TEX^® by TESTEX Pavilion. Once again 10 OEKO-TEX^® certified companies and customers of TESTEX worked together to draw the focus on textile ecology and sustainability. Our partners exhibited knitted and woven fabrics made of natural fibres, chemical fibres and mixed, functional fabrics, as well as accessories like embroidery thread, labels, etc. All 10 pavilion companies are STANDARD 100 by OEKO-TEX^® certified, of which Malaysian Penfabric (Toray Group) is the only STeP certified company. Furthermore their semi-finished products are MADE IN GREEN by OEKO-TEX^® labelled. 

The special area dedicated to MADE IN GREEN & STeP by OEKO-TEX^® showcased our customers’ outstanding achievements in sustainable manufacturing processes covered by STeP. A highlight was the MADE IN GREEN (MIG) labelled children’s sleepwear collection by Swiss CALIDA and the first-ever MIG labelled towels by LOFTEX. Seven well-known STeP by OEKO-TEX^® certified Chinese companies - Esquel, Shenghong Group, Tianjin Tiange, Shandong Lutai, Shandong Lufeng, Huafu, Jiedong Paris Thread exhibited their textile products and accessories in our special zone.