Exhibition >>2023 墨西哥瓜達拉哈拉建材五金展 熱絡人龍拉動拉美市場龐大商機High Visitor Traffic
Foresees Huge
Business Opportunities
in Latin America

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xpo Nacional Ferretera, the largest
and professional hardware trade
event in Latin America, returned September
7-9, 2023 at Expo Guadalajara. With 1,094
exhibitors and 50,000 square meters ofexhibition space, the show not only attracted
many local Mexican hardware manufacturers
and suppliers, but also many companies fromneighboring Latin American countries andeven Asia to exhibit their latest innovative
products and services.
The annually held hardware show in
Guadalajara is decisive for the developmenta nd consol id at ion of t he ha rdwa r ecomponents, construction, electrical andindustrial safety industries in Mexico and throughout the greater Central
and South American region, and is an important venue for manufacturers,
distributors and buyers to establish contact networks, develop partnerships with
key industry players, learn about innovative products and receive the latest
industry news. According to the organizer's post-show statistics, this year's
event has once again set a new record in the number of visitors, with up to 60%of visitors being decision makers, 64% being potential buyers looking for newproducts, and 51% looking for new suppliers to work with.
This year, Fastener World Inc. was also present at the exhibition andinteracted with local buyers (e.g. hardware distributors, importers/exporters,building materials buyers, etc.) and presented them with latest suppliers
directories, in order to build a bridge for cooperation and explore more business
opportunities for those who were unable to attend the exhibition in Mexico.
Fastener World's exhibitors said that there were many people on-site during
the three-day event, which fully reflected how much importance the local
industry attached to the show and the active industry enthusiasm. The waveof risk diversification under the era of great changes is embracing business
opportunities in emerging markets such as Latin America. If you want to enter
the booming hardware manufacturing supply chain in Mexico and keep pacewith foreign investors to further develop the Latin American market, this show
definitely is not to be missed.
The organizer has also announced that the next show will be held again on
September 5-7, 2024 at Expo Guadalajara.

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Exhibition >>2023 中國上海國際五金展 鏈接中國 - 全球五金行業指標平台The Leading Platform
Connecting Chineseand Global Hardware
Industries

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hina International Hardware Show (CIHS), celebrating its 20th anniversary thisyear, was held again on September 19-21 at the Shanghai New InternationalExpo Centre (SNIEC), which has been recognized as the largest hardware trade show inAsia. This year's show opened with eight exhibition halls (N1~N5 and W3~W5) and was
divided into various thematic areas including International Hall, Domestic Tools Halls,Locks & Security Doors Products Hall, and Building Hardware & Fasteners Hall. The
exhibition attracted many local Chinese and overseas enterprises to exhibit tools, locks,
security products and accessories, processing and manufacturing equipment, building
hardware, fasteners, DIY products, gardening and sanitary products, and other products
and peripheral services.
According to the organizer, the 3-day show gathered nearly 2,500 exhibitors andrepresentatives from Germany, Taiwan, the U.S., Canada, France, Italy, Turkey, Mexico,Japan, S. Korea, Malaysia and other countries, with a total exhibition area of 120,000 sq. m.
It provided an interactive platform for face-to-face communication with professional buyers
and visitors, and opened up a two-way trade channel for Chinese hardware enterprises andthe introduction of overseas brands.
Fastener World's suppliers directories were not only popular to visiting buyers coming
to ask for their free copies, but also highly recognized by those industry professionals
visiting our stand. Some visitors commented that it was difficult to find suitable partners ina short period of time because of the large number of hardware-related industries in China,
but through Fastener World's free magazines and the diversified online sourcing platform,
they were able to find a lot of manufacturers with good quality, experience and good
reputation very quickly.
During the exhibition, the organizer also planned a "Global Hardware Channel andDistribution Development Forum," inviting industry experts to share their insights intocurrent market trends and industrial developments, analyze the pain points of the hardware
industry's traditional distribution channels and the possibility for further upgrading, andsolve the problems of insufficient marketing power and high product homogeneity, etc. The
welcome reception was also held and the first "CIHS Award" was also presented to manyindustry leaders, product innovation and quality excellence enterprises which were invited
to receive the award on stage.
The next show is scheduled for October 2024. Please always keep yourself updated onFastener World website for the latest info about the next show.

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Exhibition >>2023 日本大阪工業展 AI 檢測、碳中和、精實生產管控成為話題

AI Inspection, Carbon Neutrality, andLean Production Control Now the Talkof the Town

The show attracted 1,030 exhibitors
during the three-day period from
October 4 to 6, including 267 exhibitorsof fasteners and hardware parts, nearly
200 exhibitors related to surface treatment
and surface cleaning, about 100 exhibitorsof i nsp e ct ion m a ch i nes, a nd nea rly
100 exhibitors of measuring machines,
according to the data revealed by theorganizer. The total number of visitors
reached 33,000 people.

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In recent years, Japan has gained alot of attention in the world's politicaland economic landscape. There is a well-known
fastener trade dealer in Osaka in the making of an
all-English purchase platform, aiming at the global
market and vowing to send Japanese high-quality
products and logistics services to all corners of theworld. Fastener World is closely monitoring thesituation in Japan and set up a booth at the show to
distribute magazines and introduce global fastenercompanies to Japanese visitors.
According to Fastener World staff onsite, there
were about 70 Chinese exhibitors of screws and 30
Taiwanese fastener exhibitors in the show. Someof them solely target their overseas sales at theJapanese market and visited Japanese clients before
the show. On another note, visitors to the Fastener
World booth were mainly looking for suppliers ofscrews and motorcycle parts.
There were up to six AI-related speeches in theconferences organized by the show, which mainly
explored how to apply AI to the manufacturingindustry. Another big topic was carbon neutrality,with one of the speech title "Explanation of thedecarbonization management strategy— Keypoints of CO2 visualization and carbon footprint
calculation of the entire supply chain in themanufacturing industry ". From here we see Japan’shigh interest in carbon tax as the future trend.
Representative of Toyota Motor Corporation ofJapan was also invited to give a presentation on theworld-renowned Toyota Production System (TPS).
These speeches offered a glimpse into the future ofJapan's manufacturing industry.

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Taiwan Hand Tool Industry
Now Focuses on CarbonReduction and Smart
Manufacturing

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he show held from October 4 and closed
on 6th gained support from more than
20 associations. Among them, the chairmen of
Taiwan Industrial Fasteners Institute as well
as Taiwan Fastener Trading Association werepresent in person, and posed for a group photoon the opening stage with the chairman of
Taiwan Hand Tool Manufacturers' Associationand representatives from the Presidential Officeof Taiwan.
The show area was expanded to 6,500
square meters, 40% more than the first edition.
The number of exhibitors exceeded 300 and 30,000
visitors came to the show. Hundreds of world famous
overseas buyers, including those from Stanley Black& Decker, KTC, KS Tools, Milwaukee, came topurchase. Fastener World’s staff onsite interviewed
several other exhibitors from the fastener, hardwareand hand tool industries. Most of them said thatthey saw a large inflow of people and were looking
forward to the benefits of the show in terms oforders.
With CBAM now on a trial run, this show’s
seminars were largely focused on carbon reduction,with speech titles such as "Strategies for Navigating
the Dual Transformation of Smart Manufacturingand Low-Carbon Sustainability in the Manufacturing
I ndust r y", "Towa rds I ndust r y 4.0: Build t heSmart Factory of the Future" and "Navigating
Global Carbon Management Trends and Strategic
Responses". Although the European Union has
not yet included hand tools in the scope of CBAMtaxation, it is clear that the hand tool industry inTaiwan has begun to respond. In addition, a large
number of speeches focused on cross-border logistics,
showing that Taiwan hand tool industry has taken hit
from the pandemic which is bygone and is now fully
engaged in export sales.

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