Expo 2007 the rendezvous for wood processors, traders

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Expo 2007 the rendezvous for wood processors, traders

Truong Trung Viet, deputy director of the HCMC Trade Department as the main organizer of the event, told reporters at a news conference yesterday that “Expo 2007 is the focal point of the national trade promotion program for the woodworking industry.”
The fifth annual edition, scheduled for October 10 to 14 in the HCMC International Exhibition and Convention Center in Tan Binh District, will gather 320 exhibitors with 720 booths, and will be flooded with traders, he said.
Viet said the organizers has had to refine participation, fixing the number of booths to 720 from the registered number of 1,200. Exhibitors will come from across the country and eight countries and territories worldwide.
As trade visitors are projected to come in crowds, the event is reserved for them in the first three days, and is only opened to the public in the last two days. He was speaking at the briefing held at Saigon Times Club, which was also attended by representatives of the Ministry of Industry and Trade, and the HCMC Handicraft and Wood Industry Association (HAWA).
Ha Ke Tuan, deputy head of the Trade Promotion Department under the Ministry of Industry and Trade, remarked that the annual Expo has become the best known event in Vietnam's woodworking industry. Therefore, in 2004 the then Ministry of Trade decided to enlist Expo events in the annual trade promotion program.
“As the Expo is export-oriented, we have assisted the organizers in publicizing the event worldwide,” Tuan said.
The country's woodworking industry has seen rapid development alongside the increasing attention among international buyers.
Ten years ago, the industry was virtually non-existent as Vietnam mainly shipped logwood abroad. When the industry emerged to become one of the Top Ten export earners in 2004, the Government set the target of raising export revenue to US$2 billion by 2010.
Such a target is soon realized, as Vietnam last year earned US$1.93 billion from furniture export, and the revenue is forecasted to surge to US$2.5 billion this year.
This year's Expo 2007 will also incorporate three special seminars relating to the woodworking industry, including two seminars on shipping wood furniture items stateside lectured by Americans.

By HONG VAN - HCMC

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