This year, the organizer of DOMOTEX Middle East is putting together an extensive lineup of innovations and exciting new floor coverings to build on the success achieved at last year’s Istanbul premiere. “We’ll be continuing the DOMOTEX Middle East success story this November with an even stronger overall focus on quality,” Mr. Folkerts said. “The fair is the ideal place for businesses to maintain existing customer and supplier relationships, lay the groundwork for new relationships and find the partners they need in order to access new markets.”
The 2013 exhibition program includes hand-made and machine-woven carpets and rugs; hallway runners and mats; textile floor coverings; resilient floor coverings; and laminate, parquet and other types of wood flooring. There will also be displays of textile machinery and accessories, not to mention fibers, yarns and textiles, a strong showing of specialized floor coverings and synthetic turf products for sports facilities, plus laying, cleaning and application technologies, natural stone, marble and ceramic tiles. “DOMOTEX Middle East will preview the trends, designs and materials that will define the flooring markets of Turkey and the Middle East over the coming year,” commented Mr. Folkerts.
The fair’s supporting lineup of conferences, forums and special exhibitions and events will provide the perfect platform for fresh, modern designs, high-quality classic products and expert dialogue on the latest new laying technologies and systems. In the case of the IHIB Carpet Design Competition, for instance, young designers have been invited to give free rein to their creativity in the pursuit of unconventional carpet designs. The winning designers will receive attractive prizes and get to present their award-winning creations at the fair. Then there’s the Carpet and Rug Restoration Workshop, which, as the name suggests, will profile restored and antique carpets and rugs. Other event highlights include the Creative Flooring special display, which will feature information and practical demonstrations of techniques for laying textile and resilient floor coverings and parquet and laminate flooring; and the Future of Flooring Forum, with its focus on quality expert dialogue on the latest trends in wood flooring.
DOMOTEX Middle East runs concurrently with R+T Turkey, which is staged at the Istanbul Fair Center. R+T Turkey is the leading Turkish trade fair for roller shutters, doors/gates, windows and sun protection systems. Organized by Messe Stuttgart ARES Fuarcılık Ltd, it provides valuable synergies with the DOMOTEX Middle East offering, especially for trade visitors from the architecture and construction sectors.
About DOMOTEX worldwide:
DOMOTEX Middle East, which is organized by Deutsche Messe subsidiary Hannover Fairs Turkey, next runs from 7 to 10 November 2013 and is aimed primarily at visitors from Turkey and the Middle East. Deutsche Messe AG runs a total of four trade fairs under the DOMOTEX brand. First up, there’s DOMOTEX Russia, which will be held from 25 to 27 September 2013 in Moscow and caters specifically for buyers and flooring industry representatives from Russia and the other CIS states. Next on the agenda, after DOMOTEX Middle East of course, is DOMOTEX Hannover, the leading trade fair for the worldwide floor coverings industry, which runs from 11 to 14 January 2014 in Hannover, Germany. Two months after that, Deutsche Messe subsidiary Hannover Milano Fairs Shanghai will partner with VNU Exhibitions Asia und Build Your Dream to stage DOMOTEX Asia/CHINAFLOOR. Held from 25 to 27 March in Shanghai, the fair targets visitors from the Asia-Pacific region.