Intertool Moscow is the leading trade show for the tool industry in the region. The 2008 event is scheduled for Sept. 30 to Oct. 3 at the Crocus Expo international exhibition center in Moscow, where it will occupy pavilion 1 in halls 1, 2 and 3. For the past 10 years it has proved to be a focal point for specialists in tools, metalworking and manufacturing, welding equipment and related proce...

Billed as the most significant, all-inclusive, world's largest trade platform for global buyers, industry professionals, installers, wholesalers, retailers in the tools, locks, fittings and DIY (do-it-yourself) sectors, the International Hardware Fair/Practical World (IHFPW), held from March 9 to 12, 2008 in Cologne, Germany, once again headlined media, industry that promoted the event. The I...

Size unfortunately does matter even in the hand tool making and exporting business: skilled but modest-scaled makers in Taiwan sometimes find themselves rowing upstream to capture bigger market shares or outdo rivals globally; however, Chang Loon Industrial Co., Ltd., with a workforce of only 70 in its 6,000-square-meter plant, has proven to the world hand tool market of the truth in the adage "q...

Recently 57 Taiwan-based building-material makers organized a trade body called Taiwan Green Building Material Council (TGBMC), marking a further step by the island's building-materials industry toward waking up people to the serious consequences of using eco-unfriendly building materials. The Taiwan government began in 2005 to introduce an array of measures to promote the wider use of green...

After many years of promotion, the International Building & Construction Trade Fair (IBCTF), held annually alongside the Kitchen & Bath China Show (KBCS), has evolved to become perhaps the leading fair of its kind in Greater China, playing sizable role to further drive the kitchen and bath sectors in the region. The emerging Chinese economy has given room for sizable numbers of local supplier...

Besides being the largest American city to be literally on the shore of Lake Michigan, Chicago and its McCormick Place Convention Center this year was also home for three days to the K/BIS (Kitchen/Bath Industry Show) 2008, running from April 11 to 13 as the world's largest dedicated trade fair for kitchen and bathroom products, services and trades. K/BIS, organized by the NKBA (National Kitc...

The Big 5 Show has been held each autumn in Dubai, a member of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), ever since 1989 and has evolved into the biggest exhibition of construction and related products in the Middle East, which in recent years has been one of the world's most dynamic markets. According to statistics compiled by the Dubai Chamber of Commerce & Industry, construction in the emirate grew a...

Despite boasting less than 10 years of experience in making automatic faucets, or ones turned on by IR (infrared) sensor activated by body heat, Chang Yi Shin Industries Co., Ltd. has become likely the best supplier of such product worldwide. In fact, the company's innovative IR faucet redefines the standard for a truly energy-saving, user-friendly way to turn water on or off automatically. H...

(Based on the copy from the show organizer) Demand for quality hand tools and hardware has been on the rise globally; while the rapid economic growth in recent years in India has also been driving demand for hand tools and hardware from domestic and overseas suppliers. Such setting makes especially relevant the IIHT Expo series, now called IndiaMART Hardware & Tools Expo 2008 + IndiaMART Faste...

As India's largest and dedicated trade fair for hardware and tools, the 6th India International Hardware & Tools Expo (IIHT Expo), held December 17 to 19, 2007 in the Bombay Exhibition Center in Mumbai in tandem with Fastener Expo 2007, likely opened the door to the Indian market for foreign companies during the three-day event. Until the recent stock market adjustment and relatively high inf...