INDEX 11 opened today at the Pal Expo convention center in Geneva, Switzerland. The four-day show will close Friday and is expected to attract thousands of members of the global nonwovens industry.
At a special ribbon cutting ceremony this morning, EDANA chairman Jean Marie Becker, hailed INDEX 2011 as one of the most successful ever. “We have 530 exhibitors, which is far above last year’s number. You are coming from 43 countries, 25% of global countries in the world are here. We have 21,600 square meters in the exhibition—more than in the last exhibition. It’s always a growing number,” he said with enthusiasm.