- 414 exhibitors from 25 countries - 25 % increase over 2001
- 18,440 professional participants – high standard of discussions and contacts
- Excellent opportunities for international chemical equipment manufacturers and process engineering
China's economy is booming and it offers outstanding opportunities for equipment manufacturers, plant engineers and technology suppliers in the chemical process industry worldwide. Exhibitors and visitors at ACHEMASIA International Exhibition&Congress on Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology which took place for the sixth time from 11 to 15 May 2004 in Beijing/PR China unanimously confirmed this.
Optimism, high quality and excellent contacts were the hallmarks of this 6th ACHEMASIA which further consolidated its position since the first event in 1989 as Asia’s most comprehensive event for the chemical process industries – for equipment manufacturers, plant engineers and technology suppliers. ACHEMASIA's exhibition profile targeted the main priorities of the Chinese economy, particularly in the sectors of the chemical and petrochemical industries, pharmaceutical production technology, food technology, biotechnology and environmental protection.
In four booked out halls with 6,396 square metres of net exhibition space 414 exhibitors from 25 different countries and regions displayed investment goods and new developments for the fields of chemical apparatus and plant design (41 %), process engineering (33 %), petrochemistry (25 %), pharmaceutical production technology (23 %), food technology (18 %), environmental technology (15 %), biotechnology (15 %), laboratory and analytical techniques (13 %), water technologies (11 %), agrochemistry (10 %). For the first time it was not possible to fulfil all the exhibitors’ requests for stand areas, thus ACHEMASIA 2007 will require additional hall capacity.
The exhibitors were highly satisfied with the organization of this event, the high number and professionalism of the visitors, the numerous good contacts and discussions. The total of 18,440 visitors, including numerous decision-makers from Chinese industry, design institutes and large concerns, such as Sinopec, and a high number of managers and CEOs of foreign companies from 25 countries and regions, attached great importance to the presentations and networking opportunities at ACHEMASIA 2004. Just under 10% of all attendees were from abroad.
The largest contingent of exhibitors at ACHEMASIA 2004 came from China with a total of 167, of whom over one third represented subsidiaries and joint ventures of international companies. The second largest group came from Germany with 134 exhibitors, followed by Australia (17 exhibitors), Great Britain (15 exhibitors), France (14 exhibitors), USA (12 exhibitors), and Switzerland (10 exhibitors). The number of Chinese exhibitors increased by 44 % over 2001, that of international companies by 20%.
Prof. Gerhard Kreysa, chief executive of DECHEMA, the organizer, emphasized the fact that there was a quantum leap in the quality of the presentations of Chinese companies. The organization of the event had received gratifying accolades.
The new concept for the ACHEMASIA Congress with business meetings, scientific lectures and presentations by exhibitors proved highly popular. Approximately 3,000 professionals attended these events. This 40% rise over 2001 proves that there is a high demand for an international exchange of ideas and experience on cutting-edge technologies and cooperations. The number of exhibitors and congress visitors clearly reflects the macroeconomic development of China which is characterized by the steady growth of the private sector.
What counts particularly for first-time exhibitors at ACHEMASIA and newcomers to the Asian market is the fact that at ACHEMASIA 2004 over 80% of the visitors were motivated by information provided by the organizers, DECHEMA (Society for Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, Frankfurt am Main) and CIESC (Chemical Industry and Engineering Society of China). Around 20% of the visitors were contacts and clients of the exhibitors. A mailing of 50,000 pre-catalogues to influential institutions and companies in the southeast Asian region and numerous advertising campaigns with several international journals had made ACHEMASIA 2004 known to experts from the branch as an important exhibition for equipment goods of the chemical process industries.
At the Opening Ceremony in the presence of high-ranking representatives from politics and industry Prof. Cao Xianghong, Senior Vice-President of SINOPEC and president of CIESC Chemical Industry and Engineering Society of China, emphasized the significance of ACHEMASIA as the biggest and most influential international exhibition of its kind in China for the Chinese economy. The declared aim of the Chinese government, he said, was to promote sustainable development in Chinese industry and petrochemistry and to give priority to high technologies, the economic use of resources, economic efficiency and environmental protection. This was only possible with western technologies and in cooperation with international companies.
State reception at ACHEMASIA 2004 – high esteem by Chinese industry and business
The exceptional importance that ACHEMASIA represents for China’s economy was underscored by a reception in the Great Hall of the People, to which a representative delegation of ACHEMASIA exhibitors had been invited. In a conversation with Dr. Alfred Oberholz, a member of the Board of DECHEMA and of the Board of Management of Degussa AG, Madame Gu, Vice-Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, stressed the desire to continue economic cooperation between China and the best technology suppliers in the world.
Madame Gu, the former Minister for the Chemical Industry, is one of the leading representatives of technology and economic policy of the country who has accompanied and actively promoted the development of ACHEMASIA since its launching. She stated that chemistry plays a vital role in all industrial sectors of her country which is why it is a priority area for development as one of China's basic technologies. With respect to new projects, China attaches the utmost importance to new technology, the economic use of resources, environmental protection and the corresponding international know-how and partnerships. She considered cooperation with the companies and countries represented by the exhibitors at ACHEMASIA to be of paramount interest. There were meanwhile sufficient examples to show that the constantly increasing opportunities that where opening up on the Chinese market would not only benefit large firms, but also small and medium-sized enterprises and service providers.
Dr. Oberholz emphasized the inestimable importance that particularly German firms attach to the Chinese market in its continuing development. He singled out the high quality of education of chemists and chemical engineers in China which has ultimately contributed to the fact that companies are tending to open subsidiaries in China and to relocate their research and development here.
Further Information, statistics, photo-material and reports of new technologies, markets and prospects relating to the main topics of ACHEMASIA 2004 (in English, German and Chinese) are available at http://www.achemasia.de (Press)
The following Trendreports are available for download:
- China's Chemical Industry
- China's pharmaceutical industry
- China's environmental industry
- China's food industry
- Automation & Control in China
- China's Petrochemical Sector
- High-Purity Manufacturing in China
- Laboratory and Analytics Market China
- Biotechnology in China
- Chinese Biotech Industry
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