(Hong Kong, 27 August 2018) The 2018 International Printed Circuit & APEX South China Fair (2018 HKPCA & IPC Show) – one of the world’s largest and most influential PCB and EA shows of its kind – will be held in the Shenzhen Convention & Exhibition Center in Shenzhen, China, during 5-7 December 2018.
To be run in a record-high show scale with nearly 560 exhibitors and 3,100 booths from China and overseas, the Fair serves as a one-stop sourcing platform to with the latest products, services and solutions from the whole supply chain in the industry.
Jointly organized by the Hong Kong Printed Circuit Association (HKPCA) and IPC — Association Connecting Electronics Industries®(IPC), the 2018 HKPCA & IPC Show keeps expanding its scale every year after 16 successful editions. This year, the Fair will open a new hall at Hall 6, taking a total of 60,000 square meters of exhibition area covering Halls 1, 2, 4, and 6 of the show venue.
In the booth allocation meeting held on 18 & 19 July in Hong Kong and Shenzhen in Guangdong Province in China, feedback was brisk with 97% of booth space confirmed and sold out. Visitors to the Fair can meet leading enterprises and new manufacturers face-to-face, including TTM, Topsearch, Sunshine, Atotech, Harvar, WKK, Schmoll, Process Automation, Dupont, Dow, Hans CNC, C Sun, Topoint, Carl Zeiss, Jadason, Orbotech, Hitachi Chemical, Isola, MacDermid, Rogers, Universal P.C.B., Protek, Joint Stars, World Wide PCB, Boffotto, Guanghua, Farcien, FujiFilm, Zhengye and more. The presence of major players under one roof ensures the show’s role as an important integrative event for sourcing, information and technology exchange, industry networking and business development.
“We are delighted to see the show’s expanding scale all over these years,” said Mr. Canice Chung, Chairman of HKPCA, “With many exhibitors being eager to display their latest innovations and technologies to industry buyers, the Fair will continue to perform as an influential trading platform and bring together the elite of the global industry under one roof, allowing more industry players to display innovations which shape the industry’s future.”
Dr. John W. Mitchell, President & CEO of IPC, remarked: “The enthusiastic response from exhibitors has further consolidated the show’s respected status as one of the world’s most influential trading platform for the PCB & EA industry. We look forward to another year of successful and fruitful event.”
Staging along the theme of “Inspire the Industry, Explore the Infinity,” the Fair will continue its role in gathering wisdom and industry elites together and bring inspiration to each other. Apart from the impressive showcase of technologies, the Fair will hold a wide array of concurrent events, including Welcome Dinner, Golf Tournament, IPC Hand Soldering Competition and IPC China Design Seminar to offer an effective platform for industry players to exchange knowledge and develop business connections.
To learn the show’s latest news, please visit the official website www.hkpca-ipc-show.org or scan the QR code below to follow the official WeChat account. Visitor pre-registration for the show will be available by the end of September.
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