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Trade & BusinessCEMATEX

European Committee of Textile Machinery Manufacturers

Zürich, SWITZERLANDVereinReg: 919003299757-88Since 22/07/2025

Budget

€25 — €0

EP Access

0

accredited persons

Staff

1

0.25 FTE

EU Grants

None

Mission & Goals

The members of CEMATEX are European national associations of textile machinery producers from Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, Spain, United Kingdom and Switzerland. Those 9 European countries count more than 95% of all European textile machinery manufacturing companies. Those national associations of textile machinery producers have in total approx 850 manufacturing companies as members. CEMATEX is governed by a board of 9 directors, each representing a Cematex member national association. Cematex represents the interests of its members towards international and supranational authorities and institutions, in particular towards the EU Commission. In addition to European representation, CEMATEX is owner of the ITMA textile machinery exhibition brand. An important part of the daily activities of CEMATEX are the continuous development of the ITMA brand. More details on CEMATEX can be found on https://www.cematex.com/about-cematex

EU Legislative Interests

- European Strategy for Sustainable and Circular Textiles - Market Surveillance - Trade policy (FTA with India, technical barriers to trade ...)

Communication Activities

-developed online tutorials ESPR, Forced Labour, Waste Framework Directive and Market Surveillance in cooperation with the European Commission -issued a position paper on market surveillance and communicated to the European Commission and MSA's in the EU27 member states - see www.cematex.com -engaged with the European Commission on TBT due the Indian OTR 24 (technical barrier to trade for weaving & embroidery machines) -organized webinars with representatives of the Commission and Parliament on the EU texiles strategy

Interests Represented

Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members

Member Of

EURATEX (https://euratex.eu/)

Organisation Members

VDMA (https://vdma.eu/textilmaschinen) SWISSMEM (https://www.swissmem.ch/de/produkte-dienstleistungen/netzwerke/industriesektoren/textilmaschinen.html) ACIMIT (https://www.acimit.it/en/) SYMATEX (https://www.symatex.be/) TMAS (https://www.tmas.se/) FME-GTM (https://www.group-gtm.nl/) BTMA (https://www.btma.org.uk/) AMEC-AMTEX (https://www.amec.es/comunidad/agrupaciones-sectoriales/amec-amtex/) UCMTF (https://www.ucmtf.fr/page/2839357-accueil)

Commissioner Meetings

No recorded meetings with EU commissioners.