Author: Andrew
Asia’s premier timepiece and jewellery showcase, A Journey Through Time, is gearing for it’s closing after another successful week. One of the longest running events of its kind in Asia, A Journey Through Time IX (AJTT) is being held across 30,000 sq ft of Kuala Lumpur’s, Starhill Gallery. This year, over 125 international watch, jewellery and lifestyle brands are participating in the 8-day event from 20 to 27 November 2015.
Appliance & Electronics World Expo (AWE) will be held in the Shanghai New International Expo Centre from March 9-12, 2016. The exhibition then will be more than 100,000 m2, with estimated 600 exhibitors and over 20,000 products. Product categories include: consumer electronics, environmental & healthy appliances, smart products, kitchen & bath appliances, white goods, accessories and components. The number of visitors will be around 150,000. AWE, organized by the China Household Electrical Appliances Association (CHEAA), now has more than 20 year history. AWE, together with CES and IFA, are called the three exhibitions of the global appliance & electronics industry.…
Closing on November 4, the 118th installment of the Canton Fair – China’s most prestigious trade event – showed slight decrease of overall buyer attendance as well as growth in key areas. 177,544 overseas buyers from 213 countries and regions around the world attended the Fair, a decrease of 4.6% over same period of last year. However, overcoming widespread concern over currency fluctuations, sales of certain key products were significantly up, while many purchasing countries also showed an encouraging increase in buyer numbers.
Rethink Robotics’ Sawyer Robot Now Available Throughout Japan
With the global introduction today of its Digital Business Platform MetaArc, Fujitsu outlines its vision for enabling customers to digitalize their business with confidence. MetaArc provides the enabling platform to allow customers to take advantage of key digital capabilities such as Big Data, enterprise mobility and the Internet of Things (IoT) on a global basis.
On October 31st, Li Keqiang, Prime Minister of China, and Park Geun-hye, the President of South Korea, announced the set up of the China-South Korea Innovation & Entrepreneurship Park in Chengdu when Li visited South Korea. Depending on two nations’ innovation and creative institutions, such as Chengdu National Innovation Demonstration Zone and the Gyeonggi Center for a Creative Economy and Innovation in S. Korea, the park will be established as a landmark project of cooperation between China’s Mass Entrepreneurship and Innovation and S. Korea’s Creative Economy.
On November 5, 2015, only one year after announcing the concept of its game-changing MULTI elevator technology, ThyssenKrupp unveils a fully-functional 1:3 scale model at its Innovation Center in Gijon, Spain. The MULTI system uses linear motors instead of ropes, enabling horizontal movement and transforming conventional elevator transportation into vertical metro systems. MULTI elevator technology increases transport capacities and efficiency while reducing the elevator footprint and peak loads from the power supply in buildings.
RIT to Establish Main Research Laboratory in U.S. Silicon Valley
Kobe City showed its high-tech Kobe Biomedical Innovation Cluster (KBIC) to journalists on Oct. 29 during a press tour mainly for foreign correspondents stationed in Japan. The tour, also highlighting Kobe’s foreigner-friendly policies, was part of the city’s efforts to attract more companies and tourists from overseas to the western Japan port city, one of Japan’s most cosmopolitan cities.
New 787-9 service is the only non-stop flight between Canada and India.