Date: October 21 - 23, 2008

Venue: Yunfu International Fair Center, Guangdong  

Sponsors:

The People’s Government of Yunfu Municipality

CCPIT， Guangdong Sub-Council

Organizers:

The People’s Government of Yuncheng District, Yunfu

The People’s Government of Yun’an County, Yunfu  

Yunfu Gaosheng International Exhibition Co., Ltd.

Yunfu International Stone Materials Center

Recruitment Agent for Overseas Exhibitors

Shenzhen Mercury Import & Export Co., Ltd.

Supporters:

China Stone Material Industry Association

Yunfu Stone Materials Chamber of Commerce

Yuncheng District Stone Machinery Chamber of Commerce of Yunfu  

Co-organizers:

Yunfu Chunguang Stone Materials Co., Ltd.

Xinyun Stone (Yunfu) Co., Ltd.

Yunfu Xinlixin Compound Stone Co., Ltd.

Jinjiang Shengda Machinery Co., Ltd, Fujian Province

I. Background

Yunfu, a municipality with abundant natural resources, is situated in the mid-western part of Guangdong Province. It enjoys a favorable location bordering the Pearl River Delta to the east; the eastern Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region to the west, and the Xijiang River to the north. Yunfu connects the Pearl River Delta and the Great South-Eastern China with National Highway 324 and the Sanshui-Maoming Railway, both traversing the territory and Yunfu Port at the Xijiang River.

Yunfu is one of the four major stone processing bases in China. With a history of over 200 years in the industry, the town has long been regarded as the Kingdom of Stone Materials There are more than 3800 large-scale stone producing plants in the city. The companies are located principally along National Highway 324 forming a unique facade of One-hundred-li (50 km) called the Stone Materials Corridor. The stone materials produced in Yunfu may be divided into 13 major series identified as red, yellow, green, gold, gray, and pinto; and into 23 categories including slab, column, ball, rounded slab, arc slab, stone line, fireplace, pattern, handrail, lamp shade, carving, miniscape, table and sandstone, among others, and there are more than 1000 varieties in total.  With an annual output of 60 million sets (pieces), Yunfu ranks No 1 in the variety, production, sales of stone materials and second in export volume among the 13 stone materials bases in China. Yunfu has been granted recognition as the “Stone Materials Base Center of China ”and the “Stone Materials Circulation and Demonstration Base of China”.

There are currently over 100 stone processing machinery manufacturers in Yunfu capable of designing and producing more than 10 thousand sets of various stone processing machinery for sawing, cutting, milling and mining stone each year. The locally-produced machinery has achieved recognition within the industry but, because of rapid growth in the sector, the quantities cannot satisfy the growing demand for the machinery and accessories needed by the stone producers of Yunfu. Thus, most machinery has to be imported from elsewhere, creating a large market for domestic and overseas machinery manufacturers.

Yunfu is not only first in the area of R&D of artificial stone, but the town is also the largest production base of artificial stone in China. With the best quality and the biggest annual production volume the city was honored as“ China’s Capital of Artificial Stone” in the year 2007.

II. Review

The China (Yunfu) International Stone Materials Science and Technology Fair have been successfully held four times since its inception in 2000. It has become increasingly more famous and influential in terms of its exhibition area, buyer attendance, quality of exhibitors present, the exhibition conditions and the quality of the services offered.

Based on the theme of “communication, cooperation, and development”, the Fair has attracted 1,182 exhibitors and 120,000 attendees from over 50 countries and regions all over the world. With an accumulated trade value of 2.73 billion Yuan, and an accumulated investment value of 1.467 billion Yuan, the fair continues to grow in stature.

The newly-built modern exhibition center — the Yunfu International Fair Center, was officially opened for the 4th China (Yunfu) International Stone Materials Science and Technology Fair in October of 2007. The 4th Exhibition exceeded the previous three in terms of scale, quality, and achievements, with 785 booths representing 323 domestic and overseas enterprises covering the exhibition area of 46,000 m² and attracting over 50,000 attendees. With a signed investment project worth of 0.773 billion Yuan and total trade transaction value of 1.467 billion Yuan at the 4th exhibition, the 4^th China (Yunfu) International Stone Materials Science and Technology Fair has become the most influential event in the China’s stone industry.

III. The Future

The 5th China (Yunfu) International Stone Materials Science and Technology Fair is to be held at the Yunfu International Fair Center from October 21st to 23rd in 2008. It is to be a large-scale grand industrial festival featuring high standards and designed to meet high commercial goals. There are to be 1000 booths in the 3000 m² exhibition areas that plan to welcome over 400 enterprises representing ten countries such as Turkey, Iran, Italy and India. Among these, the Turkish exhibition delegation is the largest, occupying more than 1,600 m² of exhibition area. The products exhibited will not only be extensive in variety but also superior in quality, demonstrating their advertised characteristics of being “new, comprehensive, supreme, unique, and exquisite”. The Fair provides a direct contact platform for buyers and exhibitors to conduct an extensive interchange at their leisure. It also creates an opportunity for category professionals to survey the over 3800 stone material enterprises on site and in the Yunfu area to see how to expand their own business.

The organizers of the Fair have accumulated a rich knowledge base over years of experience. To promote the Fair, the organizers will place ads and special reports in domestic and international industry journals, on special websites, at other industry exhibitions and will make use other appropriate media. They will also make full use of the large, especially-built database to achieve overall promotion through effective use of direct mail, telephone and fax notices, invitation letters sent to newspapers, express post sampling techniques, free single-page ads in specialized markets and strategically placed literature at hotels. In the meantime the organizers will maintain strategic relations with associations, chambers of commerce and trade institutions all over the world in order to organize delegations of buyers and others who will come to the Fair. It is expected that over 30 thousand industry professionals from both China and abroad will attend the Fair.

The aim is to present a professional exhibition/fair and an international commercial platform offering a range of professional services that guarantee high efficiency and good quality.

IV. Exhibition Items:

1. Granites, marble blocks and slabs, artificial stones, Crystallized glass panels, compound stones, etc;

2. Mosaics, patterns, fireplaces, kitchenware slabs, stone lines, basins, and other similar products etc;

3. Stone processing machinery, stone mining equipment, processing tools and testing apparatus;

4. Auxiliary materials including protective agents and materials for stone products, adhesive products, diamond saw blades, milling tools and abrasives;

5. Irregular stone materials, samples of stone sculpturing and related carvings and arts and crafts, slate, landscaping stones, rare stones, tombstones, and other products;

6. Specialized materials, design and architectural techniques, scientific research findings, specialized websites and media coverage of the stone industry.