Shanghai Daily news

Visitors check the latest textile fabric weaving machines at ShanghaiTex 2005 yesterday.  Italian, Germany, Spanish, French, US, Japanese and Korean firms are among the 1,400 companies exhibiting their products at the textile machinery exhibition. (Photo: Shanghai Daily)

The simmering trade rows between China, the United States and Europe over textiles have cut into sales of textile machinery during the first half of this year.
Many high-end machine makers are projecting a brighter future in the Chinese market, however, betting Chinese textile firms will have to upgrade the quality of their goods if they want to sell to Western markets.
That’s the message machinery makers are spreading at the 11th International Exhibition of Textile Industry, or ShanghaiTex 2005, which opened yesterday at Shanghai New International Expo Center.