Date: 13 – 16 May 2009
Venue: Shanghai New International Expo Centre (SNIEC)

The 20th China International Glass Industrial Technical Exhibition (China Glass 2009) will be staged at the Shanghai New International Expo Centre on 13-16 May, 2009. The organizer is the Chinese Ceramic Society and co-organizer is the Shanghai Ceramic Society. The exhibition will be run by the Beijing Zhonggui Exhibition Co., Ltd.

Initiated in 1986, the China International Glass Industrial Technical Exhibition (China Glass) is an annual grand gathering of the glass circles in the world (even years in Beijing and odd years in Shanghai). During the course of its development, it has long been supported by all glass-related governmental departments and nationwide industrial associations of China, including 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 one of the three largest international glass exhibitions in the world and as famous as glasstec held in Düsseldorf, Germany and VITRUM held in Milan, Italy, and serves as a platform for trade talks and technical exchanges, which has the largest scale and greatest commercial significance in the Chinese glass industry.

In April this year, China Glass 2008 was successfully completed in Beijing. It covered an area of 53,000 square metres and totally 738 exhibitors, including 248 foreign companies, came from 21 countries. They gathered in all the ten exhibition halls. Germany, Italy, the USA and Belgium sent their State exhibitors groups to attend the show. The event attracted 30,391 professional visitors, of which over 2622 came from 88 foreign countries.

China Glass 2009 will be staged at the Shanghai New International Expo Centre on 13-16th May next year. Thanks to the good reputation and brand effect of the China Glass exhibition in the world, it is expected that the 2009 event will have more than 30,000 professional visitors from over 100 countries, including about 3000 from foreign countries.

Review of China Glass 2008 in Beijing

China Glass is the only international glass exhibition sponsored and supported by all glass industry-related governmental departments and nationwide trade associations of China. Its 19th event was successfully held in Beijing in April, 2008. It occupied 53,000 square meters area. The number of exhibiting companies increased rapidly and was up to 736 in total, which came from 21 countries including China. 85% of them were regular exhibitors. Of all the exhibiting companies 248 were foreign companies. The most of leading companies in global glass industry came here with their updated machines and technologies. Among all the 30391 professional visitors coming from 88 counties in the world, 2622 were foreign professional visitors. More than 80% of the visitors to China Glass 2008 were managerial level or above. China Glass 2008 once again created a significant trade opportunity for exhibitors and visitors including manufacturers, buyers, distributors and agencies in glass industry, meanwhile some exhibitors found out their proper distributors or partners to promote their products or markets in China and the other countries around the would. The event not only gave the attendees a trade chance, but also a technology presentation platform for professionals and specialists from research and academic institutes. There were a series of technical seminars organized at the event. Additionally, the Chinese Ceramic Society and the American counterparts organized a special forum on energy saving and emission reducing of glass furnaces. More than 90% of the exhibitors rated the range of trade and technology communication on the event as good or excellent, More than 90% of them said they would expect to attend China Glass 2009.

Exhibit Profile

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,Machines and Computer Automatic Control Systems for Glass Production
Batch weighing and mixing systems;Furnace charging, melting, homogenizing, combustion, boosting, bubbling system and related technology; color/flint glass forehearth and annealing lehrs and decorating lehrs etc; various forming and cold-end processing equipment including flat glass cutting machine, inspection system, 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.

III Equipment for Processing Glass
Various pre-processing machines for flat/ bending glass including cutting, grinding, beveling，polishing，drilling，engraving，wash-ing/drying and auxiliary facilities and related tools; safe glass deep processing machines 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 and TFT 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-proof glass and related processing machines and technology.

V Refractories, Raw Materials and Subsidiary Materials
Various high-grade refractories；various gri-nding, polishing, bounding, sealing, drying and coating materials; screen-printing material, paint, polymer, film; metals and precious metals, etc.

China Glass 2009 in Shanghai

The event will take place in Shanghai New International Expo Centre from 13 to 16 May 2009. It will occupy 55,000 square meters of 4 halls and a large exhibiting tent on outdoor ground. The regular participants and 4 exhibiting groups have already reserved their spaces or pavilions. Many potential participants are following our phone call to reserve space or booth for 2009. In 2009, China Glass will see the same level exhibitors and visitors from China and various countries. The exhibitor objectives will be met to interview more visitors target groups for prospective trade chance. The event’s attraction and promotion activities by issuing local & international media’s advertisings and articles will pull much more buyers, distributors and retailers to attend China Glass 2009. The promotion campaign in the Chinese Ceramic Society and authorities frame will be so successful that many of regular participants in all parts of China will return to Shanghai and attend the 20th event.

Services for Exhibitors

1. Exhibition directory in Chinese and English
2. Free admission badge and registration
3. Free entrance tickets
4. Assistance to arrange advertisement
5. Assistance to arrange technical seminars
6. On-site security
7. Regular cleaning on aisle

The other services: China Glass’ official portal website – www.ceramsoc.com will offer attendees direct access to updated event information, exhibiting manual, visa application as well as application form to space, booths,seminar and advertising page in exhibition directory. Our exhibition service agencies will supply various logistic services, including special booth building, extra exhibiting facilities rental, the exhibits（or machines）transportation and hotel reservation.

Contact

Mr. Joe Zhou, Mr. Liu Jie,
Beijing Zhonggui Exhibition Co., Ltd.
Add: No.11, San Li He Road, Beijing, 100831
Tel: +86-10- 68348131 / 68348139
Fax: +86-10-68349359
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Website: http://www.ceramsoc.com