The expo incorporates a press-printing industrial exhibition, a packaging machinery and materials exhibition, a beverage and brewery processing technology exhibition, as well as a food processing, bakery and confectionery technology exhibition.

Domestic and foreign exhibitors from the United Kingdom are showing off a wide variety of products, ranging from high-grade packaging machinery and materials; modern beverage and brewery technologies; food ingredients and food processing equipment; pre-press and electronic publishing supplies; printing materials, equipment and machinery; as well as testing and quality control devices.

"The exhibition, together with seminars, is expected to assist industrial technological exchanges and provide Chinese users with ways to probe state-of-the-art industrial technologies," said Fang Chaogui, director-general of the provincial light and textile industry department, which is one of several co-organizers of the exhibition.

Seminars being held include topics such as beverage technology, food ingredients, bakery and confectionery technology, ice-cream making technology, flexible packaging technology, flexographic printing technology, die-making technologies, offset-printing and die-cutting technologies, Heidelberg printing technology, printing technology supplies and services.

The expo is an effective venue for Chinese industrial enterprises and end-users to study the latest trade development trends and for them to forge business ties with their counterparts.

Foreign exhibitors view the expo as a golden chance for them to seek opportunities to set up co-operative ties with their Chinese counterparts and to better tap the sizable market in China.

In a related event, another exhibition, "Building South China '99" is being held by the same organizers simultaneously at the same exhibition site. Exhibitors from home and abroad including Austria, Canada, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Italy, South Korea, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States are attending the exhibition in an attempt to win a larger share of China's booming building materials market because of the thriving real estate industry in China.

On display at the building materials industry exhibition are the latest products and technologies including intelligent building and lighting systems and equipment, interior furnishing materials and utensils, coatings, building chemicals, flooring and ceiling technologies, building tools and hardware, kitchen and sanitary utensils as well as playground and pool facilities.

(China Daily)