MENA Carpet News www.menacarpetnews.com
Volume 1 | Issue 3 | ِJanuary 2013
INSIDE
Middle East and North Africa carpet world
FREE DISTRIBITION :: DOMOTEX HANNOVER 2013
DOMOTEX 2013: The World of Flooring
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The Worlds Third Largest Carpet , Muscat.................10
he international floor covering industry eagerly awaits its major event – DOMOTEX – which takes place in Hannover from 12-15 January 2013. Approx 1,400 companies from 60 countries will be showing their latest products and collections at the leading international trade fair for carpets and floor coverings. Some 40,000 trade visitors from more than 80 countries are expected in Hannover. “DOMOTEX is the most important date in the calendar of the international carpet and floor coverings sector. No other event offers the industry such a popular and internationally acclaimed platform. The keynote theme Flooring Deluxe reflects an important market trend in favour of premium floor coverings and clearly puts the
The History of Dye & Dyeing in Iran ...............16
Rugs of Iron, Wefts of Stone Restoring Bijars.................19
DOMOTEX Middle East...14 Carpet Innovations............7 INDEX 2013.....................22 New ALPHA 500 .............11 Ardabil Carpet .................20
CHALLENGES
• Keynote theme “Flooring Deluxe” puts the spotlight on premium products • DOMOTEX creates a stage for spectacular product installations • Innovative online services for DOMOTEX trade visitors • Handmade carpets now located in Halls 14-17 focus of DOMOTEX 2013 on products that excel in terms of quality and design”, says Dr. Jochen Köckler,
Member of the Board at Deutsche Messe AG. Page 5 ...
Carpet Restoration, an Unknown Art
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s one of the 35 fields related to the carpet industry, carpet restoration is an isolated and unknown art. Isolated because few people can actually get to understand the great artistic value of the carpetrestorer’ job; unknown, because nobody but the carpet-restorer himself is aware of the difficulty of the job, people can hardly realize how hard it is and how much interest, dedication, accuracy and meticulousness is needed to restore a carpet: the carpetrestorer has to live in anonymity while the processes great artistic merit. As international trade markets opened up to the Persian carpet and the productions of this field were recognized as artistic works far and wide in the world, weavings of the East, and particularly Iran, attracted the attention of all art lovers and processors of wit and fine taste in Europe and America. Art lovers, who had understood the great-
MENA ECONOMIC OUTLOOK AND KEY
ness of this field of art, overtook each other in getting a piece of the Persian carpet to decorate the floors or the walls in there houses. Old rugs which were made of special raw materials and traditional dyes were much more in favor. Due to the
extensiveness and ever increasing expansion of the carpet market, it was no longer practical to use traditional dyes and the carpets produced rarely enjoyed the qualities of the old carpets. Page 18 ...
Historic transitions in the some Arabian countries are coming under increasing strain from macroeconomic pressures and unmet social demands. Domestic uncertainty over the countries’ future course, compounded by the global slowdown and rising oil prices, took a toll on growth during 2011. The outlook for 2013 is equally challenging. The protracted political transition, lower global growth, and euro zone weakness are likely to result in a slow and drawn-out economic recovery, with unemployment at best stabilizing at high levels. Maintaining macroeconomic stability in this environment will be challenging, not least since policy buffers were reduced during 2011. Indeed, gross external and fiscal financing needs of MENA oil importers are projected at about $93 and $103 billion, respectively, in 2012-13. With capital markets expected to provide only a small part of these funds, official financial support will be essential to allow countries to continue on their path toward economic transformation. But at the same time, countries need to make tangible progress on that path. This requires bold reform and modernization agendas that command broad consensus and are embedded in a sustainable medium-term macroeconomic policy framework to build confidence, anchor expectations, and pave the way for sustained and inclusive growth. 2013 will remain difficult years for most oil importers. Protracted policy uncertainty and social pressures in many countries, lower global growth, and euro zone weakness are expected to result in a slow and drawn-out economic recovery.