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- President: K.V. Srinivasan (India)
- Vice President: Juan Parés (Spain)
- Vice President: Mustafa Denizer (Türkiye)
- Treasurer: Ernesto Maurer (Switzerland)
Board Members:
- Rafael Cervone (Brazil)
- John Cheh (Hong Kong, China)
- Uday Paul Gill (Indonesia/Thailand)
- Stefan Hutter (Singapore)
- Mirza Salman Ispahani (Bangladesh)
- Suchita Oswal Jain (India)
- Tae-Jin Kang (Korea Rep.)
- Mohammed Kassem (Egypt)
- Muharrem Kayhan (Türkiye)
- Muhammad Anees Khawaja (Pakistan)
- Michelle Tjokrosaputro (Indonesia)
- Than Duc Viet (Vietnam)
- Loek de Vries (Netherlands)
- Yingxin Xu (China)
- Yan Yan (China)
- President: Ruizhe Sun (China)
- Vice President: K.V. Srinivasan (India)
- Vice President: Juan Parés (Spain)
- Treasurer: Ernesto Maurer (Switzerland)
Board Members:
- Rafael Cervone (Brazil)
- John Cheh (Hong Kong, China)
- Mustafa Denizer (Türkiye)
- Uday Paul Gill (Indonesia/Thailand)
- Mirza Salman Ispahani (Bangladesh)
- Suchita Oswal Jain (India)
- Tae-Jin Kang (Korea Rep.)
- Mohammed Kassem (Egypt)
- Muharrem Kayhan (Türkiye)
- Andrew Macdonald (Brazil)
- Michelle Tjokrosaputro (Indonesia)
- Loek de Vries (Netherlands)
- Yingxin Xu (China)
- President: Kihak Sung (Korea Rep.)
- Vice President: Ruizhe Sun (China)
- Vice President: K.V. Srinivasan (India)
- Treasurer: Heinz Michel (Switzerland)
Board Members:
- Rafael Cervone (Brazil)
- John Cheh (Hong Kong, China)
- Peter Gnägi (Switzerland)
- Mohammed Kassem (Egypt)
- Muharrem Kayhan (Türkiye)
- Andrew Macdonald (Brazil)
- Juan Parés (Spain)
- Michelle Tjokrosaputro (Indonesia)
- Loek de Vries (Netherlands)
- President: Jaswinder Bedi (Kenya)
- Vice President: Kihak Sung (Korea Rep.)
- Vice President: Ruizhe Sun (China)
- Treasurer: Peter Gnägi (Switzerland)
Board Members:
- Rafael Cervone (Brazil)
- John Cheh (Hong Kong, China)
- Muharrem Kayhan (Türkiye)
- Andrew Macdonald (Brazil)
- Heinz Michel (Switzerland)
- B.K. Patodia (India)
- K.V. Srinivasan (India)
- Bassem Sultan (Egypt)
- Loek de Vries (Netherlands)
- President: Tiankai Wang (China)
- Vice President: Jaswinder Bedi (Kenya)
- Treasurer: Peter Gnägi (Switzerland)
Board Members:
- Rafael Cervone (Brazil)
- John Cheh (Hong Kong, China)
- Muharrem Kayhan (Türkiye)
- Andrew Macdonald (Brazil)
- Heinz Michel (Switzerland)
- B.K. Patodia (India)
- K.V. Srinivasan (India)
- Bassem Sultan (Egypt)
- President: Josué Gomes da Silva (Brazil)
- Vice President: Tiankai Wang (China)
- Treasurer: Peter Gnägi (Switzerland)
Board Members:
- Jas Bedi (Kenya)
- John Cheh (Hong Kong, China)
- Muharrem Kayhan (Türkiye)
- Andrew Macdonald (Brazil)
- Heinz Michel (Switzerland)
- B.K. Patodia (India)
- K.V. Srinivasan (India)
- Bassem Sultan (Egypt)
- President: Bashir Mohammad (Pakistan)
- Vice President: Josué Gomes da Silva (Brazil)
- Vice President: Tiankai Wang (China)
- Treasurer: Bassem Sultan (Egypt)
Advisory Board:
- John Cheh (Hong Kong, China)
- Muharrem Kayhan (Türkiye)
- Andrew Macdonald (Brazil)
- Heinz Michel (Switzerland)
- B.K. Patodia (India)
- K.V. Srinivasan (India)
- President: Walter Simeoni (South Africa)
- Vice President: Narin (Türkiye)
- Vice President: Bashir Mohammad (Pakistan)
- Treasurer: Xavier Ballus (Spain)
Advisory Board:
- Heinz Bachmann (Switzerland)
- Andrew Macdonald (Brazil)
- B.K. Patodia (India)
- President: Walter Simeoni (South Africa)
- Vice President: Narin (Türkiye)
- Vice President: Bashir Mohammad (Pakistan)
- Treasurer: Xavier Ballus (Spain)
- President: Tito Burgi (Italy)
- Vice President: Walter Simeoni (South Africa)
- Vice President: Narin (Türkiye)
- Treasurer: Heinz Bachmann (Switzerland)
- President: Sudhir Thackersey (India)
- Vice President: Tito Burgi (Italy)
- Vice President: Walter Simeoni (South Africa)
- Treasurer: Mohamed Lahlou (Morocco)
- President: Herbert Schmid (Brazil)
- Vice President: Sudhir Thackersey (India)
- Vice President: Tito Burgi (Italy)
- Treasurer: Salim Ismail (Madagascar)
- President: Min Sok Suh (Korea Rep.)
- Vice President: Herbert Schmid (Brazil)
- Vice President: Sudhir Thackersey (India)
- Treasurer: Josef Jiranek (Czeck Rep.)
- President: Hervé Giraud (Türkiye)
- Vice President: Min Sok Suh (Korea Rep.)
- Vice President: Gunar Karsten (Brazil)
- Treasurer: Edmund Travis Gartside (UK)
- President: Daniel K. Frierson (USA)
- Vice President: Hervé Giraud (Türkiye)
- Vice President: Min Sok Suh (Korea Rep.)
- Treasurer: Harry Sucksdorff (Finland)
- President: Douglas T. Hsu (Chinese Taipei)
- Vice President: Daniel K. Frierson (USA)
- Vice President: Hervé Giraud (Türkiye)
- Treasurer: George Accas (Greece)
- President: Federico Sanfeliu (Spain)
- Vice President: Douglas T. Hsu (Chinese Taipei)
- Vice President: Daniel K. Frierson (USA)
- Treasurer: Hendrik J. Hesselink (Netherlands)
- President: Tom Bell (Canada)
- Vice President: Federico Sanfeliu (Spain)
- Vice President: Douglas T. Hsu (Chinese Taipei)
- Treasurer: Willi Hladik (Austria)
- President: M. Mangaldas (India)
- Vice President: Tom Bell (Canada)
- Vice President: Federico Sanfeliu (Spain)
- Treasurer: Kak-Choong Kim (Korea Rep.)
- President: Bernard Crone-Rawe (Germany)
- Vice President: M. Mangaldas (India)
- Vice President: Tom Bell (Canada)
- Treasurer: David N.W. Lee (Malaysia)
- President: Donald Comer, Jr. (USA)
- Vice President: Bernard Crone-Rawe (Germany)
- Vice President: M. Mangaldas (India)
- Treasurer: Nezih Tunçsiper (Türkiye)
- President: Ichiji Ohtani (Japan)
- Vice President: Donald Comer, Jr. (USA)
- Vice President: Bernard Crone-Rawe (Germany)
- Treasurer: Hamed Habib (Egypt)
- President: Roger Sauvegrain (France)
- Vice President: Ichiji Ohtani (Japan)
- Vice President: Donald Comer, Jr. (USA)
- Treasurer: Aris Catsambas (Greece)
About ITMF
International Textile Manufacturers Federation
The International Textile Manufacturers Federation (ITMF) is an international forum for the world's textile industries, dedicated to keeping the world-wide membership constantly informed through surveys, studies and publications, participating in the evolution of the industry's value chain and through the organization of annual conferences as well as publishing considered opinions on future trends and international developments.
Through ITMF the textile industries cooperate at the international level with organizations representing other sectors allied to their industry.
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The International Textile Manufacturers Federation (ITMF) is one of the oldest non-govern-mental organizations. It was founded in 1904, at a meeting held in Zurich and convened at the initiative of the British cotton spinning industry. The newly established organization adopted the name "International Federation of Master Cotton Spinners' and Manufacturers' Asso- ciation". It was often referred to as the "International Cotton Federation".
It established its headquarters in Manchester, England. For many years, and throughout both World Wars, the Federation represented and promoted the interests of the cotton spinning and manufacturing industries of the world. The advent of man-made fibres broadened the raw material basis of the cotton industry. At the same time, vertical integration in textile enterprises changed the structure of the industry and broadened its scope: it has today become a multi-fibre, multi-process industry.
In 1954, the Federation took steps to adjust to this structural evolution by changing its name to "International Federation of Cotton and Allied Textile Industries" (often referred to as IFCATI). The membership and scope of the organization were broadened accordingly. In 1963, the Federation's headquarters were moved from Manchester, England, to Zürich, Switzerland, for the purpose of facilitating international contacts and improving administrative services and communications.
As of 1960, the Federation's membership has expanded significantly and today embraces the major part of the world's textile production. It thus reflects the process of internationalization which has taken place in textile manufacturing since the end of World War II. Not only has the location of world textile industrial capacities undergone far-reaching changes, the readjustment process has also affected the structure of trade associations in the industry. Their former fragmentation is gradually giving way to a more concentrated and integrated framework of representation.
In response to these developments the Federation in 1978 changed its name to "International Textile Manufacturers Federation". In the year 2000 the Federation introduced as a new membership category "Corporate Membership". This provided companies from the entire textile value chain to become affiliated with the Federation. With the end of the transitional “Agreement on Textiles and Clothing (ATC) and hence the abolishment of the traditional quota system in 2005, competition in the global textile industry intensified significantly. This led to visible increases of investments, especially in Asia and in particular in China.
On the basis of its present structure and scope, the Federation comprises members from the entire textile value chain - fibres, textile machinery, chemicals and of course textiles. The introduction of additional Sub-Committees like the Home Textile Producers (HTP) Committee in 2009 or the Fibres & Applications (F&A) Committee in 2012 provide the necessary platforms for the dissemination of information and per discussions, the Federation is qualified to represent the broadest possible segment of the world's textile and allied industries.