Rapid growth for JEC Asia

saw 345 exhibitors and this year will be making use of an additional fourth hall to accommodate new entrants from new countries including Indonesia and Russia. Accordingly, JEC Asia is anticipating a growth in visitor numbers of over 8%.

This year’s event will see the expansion of its Innovative Composites Summit, which offers a comprehensive agenda of eight separate conferences and 70 top level speakers from industry and academia. These include four sector-specific conferences, two strategy conferences, a technical conference and a cross-industry forum on automation. JEC’s business meetings service will also make a return, as will the its Innovation Awards. “Asia Pacific is experiencing double-digit growth,” explained JEC President and CEO Frederique Mutel. “At the moment the region accounts for 43% of the global composite market in volume and its share could climb to more than 50% by 2015. In terms of processing, the main noticeable difference is the development of injection processes replacing manual processes. I have no doubt about the capacity of the Asian composites industry to rapidly improve in this area.” www.jeccomposites.com