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The 25th China International Glass Industrial Technical Exhibition (China Glass 2014)

will take place at the Shanghai New International Expo Centre on 14-17 April. The

preparation work is now progressing smoothly and the overall situation is upbeat.

This year’s glass exhibition is still among large-sized events in terms of either the

number of exhibitors or the displaying area. It attracts active participation of leading

glass companies in the world. The total exhibition area of this exhibition reaches

80,000 square metres, and at the end of 2013 all booths were sold out.

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Mingte, Liaoning Lewei, Shunde Golive, Landglass, Zhejiang Topglass have about 600 square meters each, and Luoyang North Glass even expanded its booth from 600 square metres up to 800 square metres.More than 20 companies have booths larger than 300 square metres, inclu-ding Jinjing Group, TE-NON, Suntech Machinery, Guangdong IVACO, Jinan DECA, and Guangdong Fushan.In the current adverse eco-nomic situation, this result is hard-earned, and is a fruit of joint efforts of all exhibi-

the time being. Internatio-nal exhibition groups from Germany, Italy and the US are as energetic as before to prepare for participation. The Italian pavilion has 24 companies and exhibition area of over 1,200 square metres; twenty companies joined the American pa-vilion, renting booths of 400 square metres in to-tal; the German exhibition group is supported by its government departments and has a booth area of 600 square metres, allocated to more than 30 companies.Many Chinese companies are returning and expan-ding their booths. Luoyang

enterprises will also be ta-king part. At this year’s fair, there are numerous newco-mers, including 20 foreign companies coming from the US, Germany, France, the UK, Czech, Malaysia and Estonia. Many of them were actually visitors before, but are transforming to exhibi-tors because of the brand effect and good feedback of China Glass.International companies are showing great interests to China Glass and some of them rented even larger bo-oths compared to previous events. This is highly posi-tive as the global economy is still recovering slowly for

LEADING GLASS COMPANIES ON SHOWThanks to the good repu-tation and extensive inter-national infl uence of Chi-na Glass, worldwide glass enterprises are enthusia-stic for China Glass 2014. About 800 companies will participate in the show, in-cluding 620 Chinese com-panies and nearly 180 in-ternational exhibitors from 27 countries.Not only word-famous com-panies, including transnatio-nal groups, but also a fl ock of small- and medium-sized emerging professional glass

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tors, as well as the organi-zers, who are confi dent that China Glass 2014 will pre-sent a high-rank internatio-nal gathering to worldwide glass communities.

DIVERSIFIED INNOVATIVE EXHIBITSThis grand glass exposition represents the highest and contemporaneous level of the world, involving the entire spectrum of glass production and processing technologies.Besides traditional glass-processing techniques, ma-chines and glass products, new highlights include a great variety of special glass products, glass-processing machines, espe-cially those closely related to low-carbon economy, energy effi ciency, emission reduction, new energy and green materials.With the rapid progress

of urbanisation and conti-nuous increase in energy consumption in buildings, research and development of green energy-saving pro-ducts has become an im-portant component of the present low-carbon life and also the major business of glass enterprises. The Glaston Group has developed tempering, hot-bending and laminated glass production lines and processing techniques for low-E and ultra-low-E glass. Lisec and Bystronic will display their insulating glass production line. CNUD and Five Stein will show their fl oat glass fur-nace and annealing lehr technology. Grenzebach will have on show its fl o-at glass production line and production line for fi lms for photovoltaic solar cells. French Saint-Gobian produced ultra-three sil-ver low-E coated glass,

Glassrobots focuses on super-sized glass tempe-ring machines and deman-ding windscreen bending technology, and TOLE-DO’s technologies of oxy-fuel fi ring furnaces, elec-tronic melting furnaces, electronic boosting system are also interesting for vi-sitors. China Triumph has broken the foreign monopoly and has developed its own off-line low-E glass production line. All its performance indexes have attained the highest level within China. Shanghai Yaohua Pilking-ton will showcase its advan-ced products and techno-logies for on-line and off-line low-E coated glass, various types of energy-saving glass, TCO glass for thin fi lm solar cells, and high-end automotive glass. Its ultra-energy-saving in-sulating glass has a heat transfer coeffi cient much

lower than that of two-sil-ver and three-silver low-E glass. Luoyang Mingte pos-sesses forced convection heating technology and new-generation production lines of tempering furnaces and laminated glass. Sha-bo Glass Group has made efforts to face the issues of energy saving and low carbon, and has produced photovoltaic and special glass products. Luoyang Landglass is among the leading companies for its high-end forced convec-tion tempering equipment, which won a golden prize in China.Intensifi cation of proces-sing and large-scaling of equipment have been the focuses of attention in the development of fl at glass production in recent ye-ars. Various large-scale, integrated and automatic glass-processing machines, such as automatic cutting

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photos to promote the Chi-na Glass exhibition. These include the maga-zines Glass-Technology International and Glass Machinery Plants & Ac-cessories, the GlassOnWeb website; the German web-site OGIS, DGG Journal, m+a Data Bank; Glass Worldwide, Glass, Glass International and Asian Glass; USGlass, Indian Glass Bulletin, Egyptian Middle East Glass Maga-zine, Nile Trade Fairs and Spanish Revista Del Vidrio; as well as Chinese glass magazines including China Building Materials, Buil-ding Doors Windows Cur-tain Walls & Equipment, Doors Windows Curtain Walls & Equipment, China Building Materials, China Building Materials Daily, Architectural Glass and Functional Glass, Doors Windows Curtain Walls, Journal of the Chinese Ce-ramic Society, Internatio-nal Glass Manufacturing, Glass in China, Glass In-dustry, and Qinhuangdao-based Glass.

on topics such as melting and oxy-fuel combustion technologies.The independent expert forum for the world’s glass industry, GPD Chi-na 2014, will be held on 12 April. The conference addresses energy effi ciency and sustainability in buil-dings with a focus on in-telligent glazing and energy management.During China Glass 2014, the Chinese Ceramic So-ciety and the American Ceramic Society will have bilateral working talks re-garding their co-operation. Additionally, news brie-fi ngs and workshops will be organised by exhibitors or other glass enterprises to promote their brands, products and research re-sults.

MEDIA PROMOTIONChina Glass has main-tained good long-term co-operation with glass-related news media worldwide. Major foreign websites and magazines and leading Chinese media have released reports and

Besides, the fair will also have the participation of many infl uential Chinese fl at glass companies, inclu-ding Taiwan Glass Group, South China Glass, Chi-na Aviation Sanxin and Jinjing Group, considera-bly raising the level of this glass fair.

ACTIVITIES DURING THE SHOWAs an international exchan-ge stage of worldwide glass circles, China Glass 2014 will arrange a number of associated technical semi-nars and academic activi-ties before or during the exhibition.The International Sympo-sium on Advanced Glass Melting Technology, orga-nized by the Chinese Ce-ramic Society, Shanghai Ceramic Society, China National Association for Glass Industry and Don-ghua University, will take place 11-13 April, which takes energy effi ciency, low carbon and new techno-logy for the recycling of materials as its theme and will include discussions

lines, special-shaped rapid four-edge grinding machi-ne, intelligent rapid four-edge grinding machine, large-sized autoclave, as well as special glass and ceramics are attractive. Corning China will attend China Glass for the fi rst time and will exhibit spe-cial glass and ceramic ma-terials such as machinable glass ceramic, high purity fused silica and zero ex-pansion glass. Benteler offers effective so-lutions for the precise and economical fabrication of glass for a wide range of applications, and will pre-sent its new technologies. Guangdong IVACO specia-lises in high-end intensive glass-processing machine-ry, including numerical-control edging machines, vertical intelligent four-edge grinding machines, as well as photovoltaic glass production lines. As the only large sealant producer in western China, Chengdu Guibao is oriented towards market demand and has developed high-quality sili-cone sealants for many dif-ferent applications.

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