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29 Oct 2008

New composites hub in Asia: a great success

Exhibitors thrilled by the quality and number of visitors
JEC's forecasts were greatly exceeded, with 8,325 visitors coming through the doors of JEC Asia (including an aggregate audience of 873 for the 68 conferences).
The professionals from the Asia-Pacific region really made the most of the event, and Asian visitors turned up in great numbers, accounting for 82.3% of the visitors from the 58 countries that attended the event over three days.

More than 300 exhibitors: a massive thumbs-up for the composites industry
The stands of over 300 companies filled the two exhibition halls down to the last square metre. In order to accommodate all the exhibitors, JEC had to move its forums and conferences into a third hall.
There were six national stands (China, France, India, Japan, Taiwan, Thailand) and 26 countries in all represented by the exhibitors, with a significant majority from Asia-Pacific and the Middle East. At the head of the representative rankings were China, Singapore, India, Japan and Taiwan.

Exceptional participation of exhibitors from Asia
A true showcase of the know-how of the Asia-Pacific region, the show was representative of the high levels of industrialisation and sophistication in the industry, and covered every sector of application: aerospace and MRO, road transport and the new generation of rolling stock, and construction (pipes, tanks and domes made of composites).

Content and trends
The first edition of JEC Show Asia provided an exhaustive vision of what the Asian market has to offer, with a cross-section of exhibitors representing every segment that makes up the value chain of the composites industry: raw material producers (glass, basalt and carbon fibres, thermoplastic and thermosetting resins, natural fibres), semi-product and part processors (compounds, prepregs, core materials, fabrics, hand processes, SMC, GMT, BMC, injection, RTM, RIM, pultrusion, lamination, centrifugation, filament winding, etc.), equipment and software manufacturers, distributors, research centres and institutes.

Connecting science, technology and business
In addition to the national delegations and main national associations that were present at the trade show and which played such a part in the success of this inaugural event, there was also a strong representation of the top universities and R&D centres which today are working in close collaboration with manufacturers: Stanford University (USA), Nanyang University (South Korea), NUS – National University of Singapore, etc.

JEC Asia 2009: 75% more floor space
The next edition of JEC Show Asia, now an annual event, will take place from October 14-16, 2009 in Singapore (SUNTEC Exhibition Centre).
In the light of the success of this first Expo, the JEC Group has already reserved 11,500 m² of floor space, which is 75% up on this year (6,500 m² in 2008).

Pictures and illustrations available on request from Apocope.

Testimonials (Alphabetical order by countries)

ZYVAX Inc. – Australia
Peter HEIDECKER, Business Development Manager for Asia-Pacific
We are impressed with the number of people, the position and knowledge of visitors.

DURR PAINTSHOP SYSTEMS ENGINEERING Co., Ltd. – China
Harald Zysk, Director
Good and professional preparation of the fair, good relation with JEC and partners.

LINTEX INTERNATIONAL Co., Ltd. – China
Jimmy FEY, Sales Manager
The JEC Show Asia is a good platform to promote our products to our target market here in South-East Asia.

DIAMIX – France
Pascal CASTAND, General Manager
A trade show that was very specifically targeted, and so of interest to us all.

DIETZE + SCHELL – Germany
Fred MOESER, Sales Manager
Good success, target fulfilled!

SIGMATEX Ltd. – Great Britain
Stephen PHILIPSON, Business Development Manager
Good start to JEC Asia. We will return next year!

KEMROCK INDUSTRY & EXPORTS Ltd. – India
Ron BROWN, Business Development Director
We had a busy show and the quality of leads was good. We have high hopes of winning new business.

LUBRIZOL – Singapore
Sun Yew WONG, Business Development Manager
JEC Asia is very well organized. The quality of the participants is excellent. We are pleased to participate in this great event. Keep up the good work!

VICTREX Plc. – South Korea
Jung May, Marketing & Communication Director
We really had a great opportunity to increase awareness and expand our business.

HUNTSMAN – Switzerland
Andre GENTON, Vice President
This was a very satisfactory first edition. For 2009, we already decided to increase significantly the size of our booth.

HAJIME Co. – Taiwan
Allen LO
We welcomed visitors from all over the world and had a great chance to introduce our products to them. This show is great and we are looking forward to come back next year.

TEMSA AR-GE VE TEKNOLOJI A.S – Turkey
Erol UNALER, R&D Project Engineer
The economic conference was interesting because it introduced the Asian Composites market. The highlight of the conference was the Chinese composite industry association’s presentation that gave a better understanding of the Chinese market.

HEXCEL – USA
Thierry MERLOT, Vice-President Sales & Marketing
Excellent contacts, very high level.

DUNSTONE COMPANY – USA
Rob MEHAL, Vice President, Sales & Marketing
Great traffic at booth generating high quality leads.

NIDA-CORE – USA
Frederic ROMIER, Export Manager
Great organization, we recognize the JEC know-how. Great attendance, many different nationalities and high level contacts. Definitely a great show.

Source : JEC