Furniture Manufacturing & Supply China 2010 (FMC 2010) will be staged alongside FMC Premium at Shanghai New International Expo Centre from September 7-10, 2010. Being a part of Furniture China, FMC is one of the largest furniture equipment and material shows in Asia. FMC PREMIUM is a show especially designed for high-end manufacturers of furniture raw materials & components.

 * Expanded exposition area and a breakthrough in exhibitor numbers
According to multiple needs of the exhibition, the exposition area has exceeded and the number of FMC exhibitors has already reached to nearly 700. The concurrent “Furniture China” is becoming one of the three largest Furniture Fairs in the world. The total exhibition area of FMC and Furniture China is over 400,000 square meters. In 2010 more than 2,300 exhibitors and 70,000 professional visitors from 250 countries and regions are attracted to attend the fairs. FMC exhibition covers 7 broad categories and more than 40 categories of domestic and foreign enterprise in the fields of woodworking machinery and furniture raw materials, including JOWAT AG, KINGDECOR, FRENCHTIMBER, HENKEL, DEHUA TUBAO, JIANGSU YUHUI, M.Y.TIMBER, CHENGUANG VEHICLE, SICAM, CERSOSIMO LUMBER, C.I.KASEI., HUARUN COAT, AHEC, AMERICAN GROUP PARTICIPATION FROM MISSISSIPPI etc. Woodworking Machinery exhibitors include HOMAG, SCM, SHANGHAI CHAOLUN, BIESSE, YUETONG, TONGAN, NEW MAS, JANGJA, NANXIN, etc.

* Technical Seminar- A Platform of exchanging the latest industry information
In order to provide a distribution platform of industry new products and information, the organizer invite Shanghai Timber Association, the main industry media, domestic and overseas suppliers and exhibitors to hold a series of forums and seminars. Interested exhibitors and visitors are welcomed to the conference room E5-M29 and E5-M30 to attend the seminar.

* The 2nd FMC-B2B Buyers Sourcing Event- Selected supplies to meet your special demand face to face.
In order to provide best services to members and show our appreciation for their support, we will continually hold the 2nd FMC-B2B Buyers Sourcing Event after the first one successfully held last year. Cooperating with organizers of Furniture Manufacturing & Supply China(FMC), team of Fmcchina.com.cn will invite a large number of domestic furniture suppliers and worldwide quality buyers to our sourcing meetings which will be held on 8th September 2010 at Shanghai New International Expo Center.

* FMC B2B trade platform online (www.fmcchina.com.cn) – Promote your products throughout the whole year.
FMC-B2B website is newly online this September. Its comprehensive online trading platform provides FMC exhibitors continuous products promotion 365 days a year. Both suppliers and buyers can be linked through the web site platform and receive the latest product information and buyer’s offers. An online discussion can be connected between domestic suppliers and overseas buyers which improves the success rate of transactions.

We wish all exhibitors a successful business at FMC and ensure you that the show will be another great success in 2010.

Furniture Manufacturing & Supply China 2010 (FMC 2010) will be staged alongside FMC Premium at Shanghai New International Expo Centre from September 7-10, 2010. Being a part of Furniture China, FMC is one of the largest furniture equipment and material shows in Asia. FMC PREMIUM is a show especially designed for high-end manufacturers of furniture raw materials & components.
The exhibition hall will be classified as follows:
Hall E6 & Outdoor Hall 3K – Woodworking Machinery & Accessories
Outdoor Hall 4J – Saws, Blades & Tools
Hall E5 – FMC Premium (High-end Manufactures of Furniture Components and Raw Materials)
Outdoor Hall 3G/4G – Furniture Hardware & Fittings
Outdoor Hall 3H/4H – Office Furniture Supplies & Gas Spring
Outdoor Hall 3I – Furniture Fabric & Leather
Outdoor Hall 3J – Upholstery Furniture Components & Supplies
Outdoor Hall 4F – Furniture Panels & Surface Deco
Outdoor Hall 4I – Furniture Coatings/Adhesives/Chemicals & Media
Outdoor Hall 4K – Upholstery Furniture Components & Supplies

Over 650 exhibitors will participate in FMC 2010, including various domestic and oversea famous corporations such as JOWAT AG, KINGDECOR, FRENCHTIMBER, HENKEL, DEHUA TUBAO, JIANGSU YUHUI, M.Y.TIMBER, CHENGUANG VEHICLE, SICAM, CERSOSIMO LUMBER, C.I.KASEI., HUARUN COAT, AHEC, AMERICAN GROUP PARTICIPATION FROM MISSISSIPPI etc. Woodworking Machinery exhibitors include HOMAG, SCM, SHANGHAI CHAOLUN, YUETONG, TONGAN, XINMA, JIANGJA, NANXIN, etc.

The total exhibition area will be over 37,000 square meters. Up to the end of June, the number of pre-registered oversea visitor is 2,785 which have increased about 40% compared with the statistics last year. This year, FMC is expected to attract more than 30,000 domestic and international trade visitors.

In the duration of FMC 2010 exhibition, various kinds of technical seminars will be organized in the E5 conference room. The First FMC Buyers Sourcing Event held on September 8 is the most representative one. As a value-added service to B2B members, we plan to create one brand new B2B service model so as to promote more opportunities between furniture suppliers and global buyers and make a better cooperation between the two sides. Meanwhile, in order to enhance communication between exhibitors and visitors and let exhibitors have more chance to promote their products, each exhibitor will be free to use the new exhibitor conference room for 30 minutes.

With 2010 Shanghai World Expo opened smoothly, more domestic and oversea visitors have gathered in Shanghai. Next year FMC will move to Shanghai World Expo Venue. It is believed to be a great opportunity and a huge challenge for FMC further development.

As a most important woodworking machinery & furniture raw materials industry event in Asia, FMC will keep its status and take effort to catch more people’s focus in the future.

More information, please visit our official website: www.fmcchina.com.cn.

EUMABOIS PROMOTIONAL CAMPAIGN “Choose the original – choose success” is the slogan of Eumabois’ campaign to defend “original products” against low-cost imitations. The campaign in 2009-2010 will take the form of seven articles highlighting the seven strengths of the sector’s uniqueness - quality, high technology, know-how, reliability, safety, efficiency and experience.

It’s the second year of the communication campaign promoted by Eumabois – the European federation grouping the leading national Associations representing the manufacturers of machines and accessories for woodworking – to safeguard original products. Now more than ever, it is essential to identify the key elements that clearly separate those who pursue research and innovation, developing solutions that create quality, from those who just “follow” with poor imitations. Eumabois is sending out a strong message to industry operators: before you choose a tool, machine, plant or equipment, make sure that it is the result of an industrial process based on a correct sequence of stages, of constant commitment to consistent improvement and knowledge transfer into final products.

In a very complicated economic scenario, the price factor has a very strong appeal, but when the gap is clearly too wide, it is no longer just a matter of competition: you have to think about “what you don’t see”. The Eumabois campaign is casting a spotlight on those apparently intangible values that are actually the foundations of quality production. Seven concepts, seven plusses that distinguish original European technology, values that often cannot be seen, cannot be easily measured.
Before one chooses a production line or even a single bit, a disk blade or a router, one has to analyze it in relation to concepts like quality, hi-tech, know-how, reliability, safety, efficiency and experience. These are the seven keywords of the Eumabois campaign.

SAFETY
This time the focus is on safety, on the increasing commitment to produce equipment, tools, machines and plants that are safe and take into consideration the health of operators.
Woodworking machinery has always been mostly dangerous, also because the workpieces could be handled manually, allowing hazardous proximity between the operator and the moving tool, i.e. the hazardous area. This situation dates far back in time and, to be honest, applies to most production equipment, although accidents have been particularly frequent in the woodworking industry, as shown in the European statistics on industrial accidents.
Safety is one of the most critical factors that must be taken into account when designing any woodworking equipment. For many years now, the laws of all European countries have introduced strict and specific obligations and/or have fixed the essential features and specifications to obtain safety certifications and markings. This action has certainly contributed to a massive and consistent reduction of accidents in furniture factories and joiner workshops.
Another step forward was made in 1995, when all these rules and regulations were combined in a European directive, the Machinery Directive, which was then updated and upgraded in 2009 with the introduction of the 2006/42/EC regulation, coupled with a specific set of standards that provide for clear interpretation and indicate applicable technical solutions to increase the “safety degree” of machinery.

It is worth noticing that this huge “corpus” was created with a significant contribution by European manufacturers, who were involved in the final draft with their tangible experience based on daily work, their skills and the results of research carried out by companies for many years: now, 35 European standards regulate the universe of woodworking machinery, defining and ensuring their compliance with the highest safety levels. Today, safety is no longer a matter of sensitivity of individual entrepreneurs or companies, but rather a set of actions, rules and procedures to be complied with. The safety culture has taken giant steps and new laws have played an important role, not only because they define clear and precise rules, but because they promote a culture that puts operators, their health and their working conditions in the forefront. Responsible entrepreneurs now have a set of rules that give full dignity to the behavior they have always adopted for the sake of workers and their health. And, at the same time, they can count on tools that prevent those who cannot or will not abide by the law from spoiling the market.
And figures prove it: woodworking technology has been recording a strong reduction of accidents. A new, long-awaited age, for which European manufacturers have worked enthusiastically. A success confirmed by the gradual conversion of European standards into ISO standards, through closer and closer collaboration between the standardization institutes of Europe and the United States, China, Japan and many more non-European countries.

There is still one issue to solve, for which a lot has already been done: all manufacturers now offer training courses for the correct operation of complex machines and plants, and in these courses, safety is always a key topic. It’s been a long and tiring way, requiring constant and significant investments, to increase the safety of technology exponentially without compromising on its potential or productivity. As mentioned, this is the result of design, experimentation and research that are carried on only by those who create technology, not those who copy.

over 250 exhibitors in a 42,000 m² exhibition space bringing you a world preview of the leading technological innovations which we will focus on in forthcoming press releases.

Visitors (over 1500 foreign buyers have already registered) will have the chance to admire and indeed test the exciting new products which companies have chosen to present specifically at TECHNODOMUS.

A new virtual platform for Business Meetings will enable exhibitors and foreign buyers to set up their own personal electronic diaries which they can use to get in touch, arrange appointments and meet on stands as and when suits both parties.

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