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“ITM Exhibition is an

Important Gateway for Textile

Machinery Manufacturers

Towards Export”

Jak Eskinazi, Chairman of the Board of Aegean Textile and Raw Materials Exporters
Association and Aegean Exporters’ Associations Coordinator Chairman said that
‘‘Taking part in international exhibitions such as ITM is very important for

they provide opportunities where we can observe what our competitors are

Jak Eskinazi producing and analyze and evaluate our companies in addition to enabling
ETHİB Chairman of the Board one-to-one communication of our companies with their customers.’’

egean Region, with his great contribution in numbers? exports of the textile industry in 2019-2020 in
contribution to the national economy, Turkey’s overall exports for 2018 increased by the Aegean Region?
has the distinction of being one of the 7 percent compared to the previous year and Our industry has been affected by local
Alarger and leading powers in Turkey. amounted to 168 billion dollars. Our overall parameters, especially due to economic
Aegean Region, which holds the second place Turkish textile exports increased by 5 percent fluctuations. I think that we achieved a
after Marmara Region in terms of socio- in 2018 and reached to an amount of 8.5 billion significant success in 2018 and in 2019 despite
economic development, has improved itself in a dollars. Our ready-to-wear exports amounted the situation arising from both the world
wide range of sectors such as food, vegetable to 17.6 billion dollars. This corresponds to an economy and the internal conjuncture. I think
products, textiles, electrical-electronics, increase of approximately 3.5 percent. As the that the course of investments and exports will
petroleum-chemistry, machinery, automotive, textile and apparel sectors, we are one of the continue in a similar pattern to the previous
iron and steel processing, and tourism, all of industries that contributed the most to Turkey’s year.
which possess a high added value. exports.
Aegean Region is one of our regions where ■ What are your roadmap and projects as
domestic and foreign trade is most developed. ETHİB to increase the contributions of the
The most obvious indicator of this is the fact “I think the ITM 2020 Exhibition is Aegean Region to our foreign trade volume
is that in the export rankings of Turkey on the an important exhibition that enables and national economy, especially in the field of
basis of provinces, every year İzmir, Manisa, textile?
and Denizli are positioned in the top 10, whereas textile machinery manufacturers to We are aware that the way to increase our

many Aegean companies are positioned in the open up international markets by export figures in our textile and garment
top 100 and top 500 in terms of business sizes. sectors is through value-added production.
Established in 1940, Aegean Textile and Raw proving themselves in the domestic Our activities in 2019 continue in this direction
Materials Exporters Association (ETHİB) market and an important gateway with studies for technical textile production and
pursues its activities with 417 members as of export.
January 2018. We interviewed with Jak Eskinazi, for them to turn towards exports.” Between 14 and 17 May 2019, we actualized
ETHİB Chairman of the Board and Aegean the German Textile Sector Trade Delegation
Exporters’ Associations Coordinator Chairman, organization and visited the world’s leading
for ITM News. Eskinazi, providing information Our total exports from the Aegean Region Techtextil exhibition within the scope of the
regarding contributions of the Aegean Region increased by 13 percent to 13.3 billion dollars. delegation. We also organized a delegation
to the economy of Turkey and the studies Our textile exports in the Aegean Region organization for the ITMA exhibition organized
performed in order to increase the technical increased by 3 percent in 2018 and reached an in Barcelona between 20 and 26 June 2019.
textile exports, told the exhibitions that they amount of 257 million dollars. Ready-to-wear In order to increase the share of technical
attended and related achievements. exports from our region increased by 7 percent textiles in textile exports, our TEKSMER Project,
in 2018 and amounted to 1 billion and 355 million which is supported by İZKA, continues to
■ What are the contributions of the Aegean dollars. contribute to our region with its new dimension
Region, one of the centers of the textile through the collaboration of Aegean Textile and
industry, to our economy, exports, and foreign ■ Can you share with us your expectations and Raw Materials Exporters Union, Aegean Clothing
trade volume? Can you please explain this forecasts about the investments and course of and Apparel Exporters Union and Dokuz Eylül

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