Date: April 8-11, 2008
Venue: Shanghai New International Expo Center (SNIEC)

STONETECH2007 kept its increasing momentum!
STONETECH 2007 BEIJING rendered another big surprise to both exhibitors and trade visitors. STONETECH 2007 BEIJING took up the whole CIEC fairground with a total size of 65,000 sqm. 816 exhibitors from China, Turkey, Italy, Brazil, Spain, Morocco, Egypt, Greece, North America etc took part in the grand event. Pavilion organizers increased their budgets for STONETECH, and the tremendous booth buildings have proved on this.

Up to 87.4% of the exhibitors rated STONETECH as the most important event in year。
Chinese companies have kept their enthusiasm on displaying their latest products including new stone colors and top stone processing technology because they firmly believe Beijing and Shanghai have been and will be the largest stone consuming areas in the north and south China respectively, and they are right.

For 13 years already, the exhibitors from all over the world have been considering STONETECH as an important international event for global communication among the stone producers and dealers. For most of the international participants, showing up in STONETECH once every year is the key part of their promotional plan. People seldom find a previous exhibitor missing in the current edition of STONETECH. That means the number of the overseas exhibitors never falls, but constantly increases. Take a look at the grand booth they’ve built for themselves will convince you of the opinion.

National Pavilions continued expanding their exhibiting space.
Relevant associations and governmental bodies from different countries brought collective participations from Turkey, Italy, Brazil, Morocco, Egypt, Spain and Greece. There’s also a regional participation from Chinese Taiwan in STONETECH 2007 BEIJING. The companies from the above countries were located together, under ONE booth decoration that makes a gigantic view to attract the passers-by.

Among the national pavilions, Turkey gave a surprise by an occupation of 1,500 sqm net exhibiting space, and the hall 2 of CIEC belonged to this country with huge natural stone resources for the 4 days of the exhibition.

Egypt is also planning on a collective participation of up to 30 companies in the next edition in Shanghai; the same for Morocco who finally managed to be present at the grand event despite of all the difficulties, they will bring to Shanghai more companies than ever partially because their beautiful stone with sea shells fossils got them quite a dozen of orders during the show.

94.5% of visitors were involved in purchasing decision in their company.
Government officials, realtors and other stone purchasers from hotels building companies, city infrastructure constructors make up the majority of STONETECH’s trade visitors. Stone end products’ producers from Egypt, Italy, Morocco and so on are selling well to those direct buyers at STONETECH 2007 BEIJING. And most of the companies have established good relation with the officials from the capital city of China and the most prosperous city of Shanghai. 500 realtors in Beijing received the invitation to attend STONETECH 2007 BEIJING and 72 percent of them showed up for the sake of the easy approach to the fair ground in the same city where their companies are located. In addition, 94.5% of visitors are involving in purchasing decision in their company.

Visiting delegations from Iran, Singapore, USA and India also arrived as scheduled with the organizer. They’ve reported that STONETECH 2007 BEIJING is the best opportunity for them to meet with different suppliers so as to make a compare for their purchasing. What’s more? Since STONETECH is an international trade show, the buyer could meet not only with the Chinese local suppliers, they are also doing perfect business with the international participants.

A successful event -“New Stone Colors Release”
In the duration of STONETECH 2007 BEIJING, a set of seminars and releasing conferences was organized. And among those activities, the “STONETECH 2007 BEIJING New Stone Colors Release” was such a success that both the introducers and the audience got what they were expecting from the release conference. “STONETECH 2007 BEIJING New Stone Colors Release” previously was “Invest in China 2007”. It proved itself to be a stone “fashion” releaser finally.