Istanbul - The ITM 2020 International Textile Machinery Exhibition and Hightex 2020 International Technical Textile & Nonwoven Trade Fair, have been postponed.
Organized by the Tüyap Tüm Fuarcılık Yapım A.Ş and Teknik Fuarcılık A.Ş, the shows were due to be held at the Istanbul Tüyap Convention and Congress Center between June 2-6. The new dates are 14-18 July 2020.
"Recently, ITM and Hightex Project Group made teleconference with the exhibition participants; the countries where such intense participation to both of exhibitions from Italy, Germany, Switzerland, China and Turkey," organisers said in a statement. "As a result of these discussions, organizational committee was decided to postpone that exhibitions in line with requests from ITM and Hightex 2020 participants.
The ITM and Hightex Project Groups see their primary responsibility as to protect the health, rights and investments of esteemed participants, visitors and collaborators. Therefore, within the scope of decisions taken by World Health Organization (WHO) and Turkey – Ministry of Health, ITM and Hightex exhibitions have been postponed from 2-6 June 2020 to 14-18 July 2020."