The Sector

a portrait

The textile machinery industry requires great investments in research, deep know-how, long experience in textile, mechanic and electronic fields. Therefore countries having a first class production are few.

Italy is today the second producer of textile machinery in the world and the technological level of its production is considered of the highest standard by the competitors themselves.

In 2007, the production of Italian textile machinery amounted to 2.8 billion of Euro, 77% of which (worth 2.1 billion Euro) exported in about 130 countries.

Asia (43%) is the main export area, followed by Europe (38%), South America (9%), North America (5%) and Africa (5%).