Dear Chairman, Dear Mr. Pan Wei,

Ni Hao to all of you.

It is a great pleasure for me as CEO and Secretary General of CINET to be here today and to be your guest.

First of all we like to compliment you with your excellent show. I believe China Laundry Expo 2012 will be a great success. The show presents over 500 of recognised suppliers, including the well known and reputed international brands who stimulate innovation and professionalism within the industry. The market perspective of the Chinese PTC market is astonishing. Not only because of the impressive growth rates the Chinese laundry industry is achieving, but certainly also because of investments in modern, professional and sustainable machinery and equipment. This supports the performance of young industry professionals to meet the needs and demands of an attractive customer base.

PTC is a dynamic industry and certainly the Chinese PTC industry has an excellent standing position to further develop health & care markets, hospitality & leisure segments as well as business and industrial applications.

This Laundry Expo show will support the PTC industry to meet those growing market demands. Sustainability is a first priority. Laundry Expo underlined this by choosing the “Green Laundry” as the central theme of this show. Sustainable processing is for all industries a key objective and the laundry & drycleaning industry is no exception. Today’s societies need sustainable processing to optimize the use of natural resources.

For the laundry industry we believe the SWITCH-ASIA Project can contribute to impressive sustainability and energy saving numbers for the years to come. The Chinese SWITCH-ASIA project partners will implement a structural methodology in energy saving and consult Chinese laundries to implement these in the Chinese laundries. For a better environment, but certainly also for interesting savings in operational costs.

So, as CINET, the international umbrella organisation for the PTC and textile service industries, we wish our Chinese partners, the Chinese laundry associations and the 1.25 million Chinese laundry experts every success to build a strong PTC industry,  appreciated by society. CINET will support your work as much as we can.

We wish you all a very successful laundry show and wish every visitor to travel home with excellent ideas as to strengthen their businesses.

Thank you for your attention!

Best regards,

CINET,

Peter N.M. Wennekes