◎ Hao Zhangcheng
In Shanghai in September, Rubber Tech China 2019 was inaugurated on schedule.
As introduced by the sponsor China United Rubber Corporation, although the automobile output and sales continuously fell and the economic development slowed down over the past year, this exhibition realized the gratifying change of two “new highs”:
Firstly, the scale of the exhibition achieved a new high among the exhibitions in recent years. 713 exhibitors from over 30 countries and regions fully occupied N1-N4 halls, with the exhibition area reaching 50500m2. The exhibits involved rubber raw materials, rubber chemicals, rubber machinery and equipment and detecting instruments, non-tire rubber products and rubber recycling products and equipment, interaction in relevant upstream and downstream fields in the whole process was added to facilitate multipoint series connection of whole industry chain, thus becoming an annual feast of the whole rubber industry.
Secondly, professional audience also hit a new high, with an about 15% growth on the basis of 30000 person-times in last year. And the quality of the audience also exceeded that of previous exhibitions, over 10 associations and organizations such as China Petroleum and Chemical Industry Association, China Rubber Industry Association, China Natural Rubber Association, China Synthetic Rubber Industry Association and China Tyre Recycling Association organized professional visiting group, in addition, there were also overseas visiting and purchasing groups from India, Malaysia, Turkey, Myanmar, etc., the scene was very spectacular.
Since its founding in 1998, over the exhibition history of 21 years, Rubber Tech China now has become a platform for brand publicity and trading cooperation of industry enterprises, a channel for information communication and new technology exchange and a wind indicator for international rubber industry development.
On this exhibition, global Top 36 rubber machinery enterprises such as German H-F, VMI, MESNAC, China National Chemical Equipment, Krauss-Maffei, Troester, Safe-Run Group, Dalian Rubber & Plastics, Cimcorp, Comerio Ercole and Tianjin Saixiang appeared. The leading enterprises in rubber chemicals and raw materials industry such as ARLANXEO, SIBUR, Trinseo, Jiangsu Sennics, Sunsine, RedAvenue, Kemai Chemical, Yanggu Huatai, Willing New Materials, STAIR, Blackcat Carbon Black, Longxing Chemical and Xingda Steel Tyre Cord gathered together.
Another highlight activity of the exhibition, “2019 Enterprise Supply and Demand Fair”, organized upstream enterprises in raw materials and supporting machinery and equipment for face-to-face business negotiation for the downstream purchasing enterprises such as Hankook, Giti, Sailun Jinyu and Doublestar, which promoted cooperation and exchange between the upstream and downstream enterprises of rubber and helped both parties to establish a long-term supply-demand relationship.
“Rubber Tech Forum 2019”, “Rubber Industry Innovation Forum 2019” and “Rubber Industry-University-Research Alignment Platform 2019” were held at the same time of Rubber Tech China 2019. The colleagues in rubber industry jointly discussed the hot issues, development trend and innovative solutions of rubber industry and shared the latest technologies, carried out conversation and exchange and negotiated the industry development measures of the whole rubber industry chain in China.
