China Glass 2008 Held at Beijing in April 2008

The 19th China International Glass Industrial Technical Exhibition (China Glass 2008) will be staged at the  China International Exhibition Center in Bejing on 10-13, April 2008. It is another grand gathering of global glass community. This exhibition is organized by the Chinese Ceramic Society and co-organized by the China National Association for Glass Industry and the Chinese Architectural and Industrial Glass Assocaition, and run by the Beijing Zhonggui Exhibition Co., Ltd,.

The China International Glass Industrial Technical Exhibition (China Glass) has been approved by the Chinese Government and held every year alternately at Shanghai (in odd years) and Beijing (in even years). It has enjoyed high reputation worldwide.

China Glass was launched for the first time at Shanghai in 1986. During its development, it has been all along supported by all glass-related governmental departments and nationwide industrial associations of China, including the Chinese Building Materials Federation, China National Light Industry Council, China Machinery Industry Federation, China Association for Science and Technology, China National Association for Glass Industry and Chinese Architectural and Industrial Glass Association. Owing to uninterrupted innovation and development in the past two decades, China Glass has become a significant international glass exhibition as famous as glasstec held in Düsseldorf, Germany and VITRUM held in Milan, Italy, and serves as an exhibition platform of the largest scale and greatest commercial significance in the Chinese glass industry.

China Glass 2007 covered an area of 46,000 square meters and there were 707 exhibitors coming from 24 countries: China, the USA, Germany, Italy, the UK, Belgium, France, Japan, Finland, Austria, Switzerland, the Netherlands, R.O.Korea, Sweden, Czech, Singapore, Indonesia, Canada, Australia, Russia, Israel, Jordan, India and Syria. Among them, 235 are foreign exhibitors, including 4 state exhibitors’ groups from Germany, Italy, the US and Belgium respectively. The exhibition had more than 30,000 professional visitors, including 2729 foreign ones from 110 countries: R.O. Korea, India, Russia, Japan, Turkey, the US, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Australia, Viet Nam, Iran, Germany, the UAE, Italy, France, Ukraine, Egypt, Brazil, Saudi Arabia, Spain, the UK, South Africa, Poland, the Philippines, Israel, Canada, Romania, Pakistan, the Netherlands, Mexico, Czech, Lebanon, Portugal, Hungary, Argentina, Belgium, Columbia, Ireland, Kazakhstan, Greece, Syria, Lithuania, Chile, New Zealand, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sweden, Tunisia, Jordan, Bahrain, Serbia and Montenegro, Algeria, Afghanistan, Qatar, Morocco, Kuwait, Myanmar, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Nepal, Norway, Switzerland, Sri Lanka, Uzbekistan, Finland, Estonia, Bulgaria, Puerto Rico, D.P.R. Korea, Demark, Croatia, Malta, Mongolia, Nigeria, Sudan, Brunei, Armenia, Albania, Ethiopia, Austria, Palestine, Bolivia, Georgia, Libya, Bangladesh, Cyprus, Iraq, Amen, Papua New Guinea, Botswana, Vatican, Greenland, Zimbabwe, Kenya, Laos, Monaco, Nicaragua, Salvador, Senegal, Seychelles, Sao Tome, Slovenia, Somali, Tadzhikistan, Turkmenistan, Uruguay, Yemen. Among the foreign visitors, there are numerous trade and purchasing groups from R.O.Korea, Poland, Hungary, Russia, Ukraine and the US. They came to this show particularly for business purpose.. Among them, trade and purchasing groups from Korea, Poland, Hungary, Rassia, Ukrane and the US came to the exhibition especially for business activities. Therefore, this exhibition is oriented not only towards the huge Chinese market, but also towards broad world markets, especially the markets of rapidly developing and emerging countries.

Internationally renowned companies from various fields of the global glass industry attended this show to demonstrate their latest technology, equipment and products, which represent the new level of the current development of the international glass industry. Chinese companies displayed a great deal of new equipment and products, which are highly applicable with low price and high quality. This exhibition provided so many professional visitors from all parts of the world with a good occasion and a good site to conduct technical exchanges, trade talks and to seek technical and economic partners.

China Glass exhibition covers the following fields:

I Various Glass Products and Application: Architectural and decoration glass; Fenestration and hardware fittings; automobile glass and industrial glass; hollow glassware and glass containers; electric lighting glass and special glass.

II Instruments, Equipment and Computer Automatic Control Systems for Glass Production: Batch weighing and mixing systems; Furnace batch charging, melting, homogenizing, combustion, electric boosting, bubbling system and related technology; color/flint glass forehearth with stirrer  and annealing lehrs and decorating lehrs etc; various forming and cold-end processing equipment including flat glass cutting machine, quality inspection system on/out line; the I.S. machine for variety bottles and the glassware forming machines including gob feeder, pressing, blowing, burn-off, crack-off, rim toughing and rim polishing machines; quality inspection system and measurement, transportation and automatic control systems for raw materials, semi-finished and finished products; environmental protection and multi-purpose utilization; cullet recycling system for flat and container glass industries.

III Equipment for Processing Glass: Various pre-processing machines for flat/bending glass including cutting, grinding, beveling, polishing, drilling, engraving, washing/drying and auxiliary facilities and related tools; safe glass deep processing machines and system including tempering, laminating, decorating, coating, insulating, mirror-making, sand-blasting and processing of doors and windows.

IV Special glass and Process Equipment: TV glass; STN, TFT and PDP ultra thin glass substrate and their precision cutting and beveling machines; low-E coated glass and its online coating machine; Pattern glass and wired glass and rolling machine with a wired feeder; self-cleaning glass, antibacterial glass, fire-retartant glass and related processing machines and technology.

V Refractories, Raw Materials and Subsidiary Materials: Various high-grade refractories for flat, container and fiber glasses industries; various grinding, polishing, bounding, sealing, drying and coating materials; screen-printing material, paint, polymer, PVB film; metals and precious metals, etc.

China Glass 2008 will have an exhibition area of more than 53,000 sqm and so far over 600 companies including more than 200 foreign companies from 21 countries have officially applided for participating in this event. Germany, Italy, the US and Belgium are organizing their state exhibitors’ groups to the exhibition and they will have significantly larger exhibition areas compared with China Glass 2007. The lager and larger exhibition scale and increasingly diversified exhibits of the show will certainly bring to the worldwide visiting companies a huge business opportinity.

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