An opportunity to meet with customers and suppliers of nonwovens under one roof Index is one of the world´s leading nonwovens exhibitions and the place where nonwovens producers, converters, raw materials suppliers and machinery manufacturers meet to show their latest advances and to learn what’s happening in their own industry and parallel fields throughout the world. High-level professionals from both technical and non-technical applications convene to find out how nonwovens can contribute to their company’s growth. Index will be accompanied by a range of events, enabling participants to experience the industry’s dynamism first-hand, and to exchange information and network with like-minded professionals. Since the beginning of the global pandemic, the desire to provide the nonwovens community with an outstanding industry showcase, whilst ensuring the best possible health protection and safety to a broad
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international audience, has been of paramount concern to the INDEX™ Organisers. Due to on-going travel restrictions and unforeseen delays in vaccination programmes, the Organisers are forced to recognise that the lifting of the Swiss federal governmental restrictions regarding sizeable gatherings of people and a consequent return to normal business, may take a little longer than anticipated. From October 19 to 22 2021, Palexpo welcomes INDEX20, the world's leading trade show for nonwoven materials. This exhibition is a showcase for the latest advances in the development of nonwoven materials. The diversity and versatility of nonwovens offers countless prospects for all sectors of the industry with tailor-made, low-cost solutions that meet the very diverse expectations of users.
INDEX20, the world’s largest nonwovens exhibition, held in Geneva, closed a resounding success, featuring over 500 exhibitors on more than 45,000 square meters of exhibition space. “With over 9300 visitor entries over the four days, and an overwhelming sentiment among exhibitors of an unexpected attendance and quality of key decision-makers from across the globe, we are told by all those we have met that this is undoubtedly a resounding success under the circumstances” says Pierre Wiertz, general manager of EDANA. Following a record year for nonwovens production in Greater Europe, with a growth of 7.2% in 2020 to reach 3,075,615 tons (largely due to the highest ever demand for materials intensively used to fight the pandemic) this was the first opportunity in four years
