Dhaka international plastic fair begins in city
The 5th Dhaka international plastic, packaging and printing industrial fair kicked off at the Bangladesh China Friendship Conference Centre in the Dhaka city on Monday.
The fair aims at boosting the local as well as international market of plastic products, raw materials and machineries.
Inaugurating the fair, the education and commerce adviser, Hossain Zillur Rahman, said diversified and quality products are needed to capture the international as well as local market of plastic and packaging industry.
The Bangladesh Plastic Goods Manufacturers and Exporters Association, the Es Event Management of Malaysia and the Yorkers Trade and Marketing Service Company of Hong Kong are jointly organising the four-day fair.
He said plastic industry had some problem in issues of banking, finance and environmental releasing certificate and the government was working to resolve them.
The BPGMEA president, Jasim Uddin, said local plastic products was now facing competition with the foreign products in the international market and producing quality products to win over the challenges.
More than 300 exhibitors of different countries, including Austria, China, Greece, India, Japan, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, the UAE, the USA and Taiwan, are participating along with about 40 local companies.
The fair will remain open from 12:00 noon to 8:00pm till January 31 to all with Tk 20 entry fee.
Source: Newage
BASIS Softexpo to begin in Dhaka February 14
Local software companies expect the upcoming BASIS Softexpo 2008 to yield a good number of outsourcing and joint venture initiatives with the largest number of foreign companies and delegates participating in this year’s fair.
The Bangladesh Association of Software and Information Services, the national trade body of software and ICT service companies, is going to organize the five-day event from February 14 at the Bangladesh China Friendship Conference Centre in association with international trade bodies.
Organisers said at a press conference on Tuesday that about 50 foreign companies and delegates from five countries will take part alongside the local companies at this year’s fair.
The convener of the exhibition, TIM Nurul Kabir said that they are expecting a good number of match making session with the delegates and local companies, during which local software companies will get an opportunity for outsourcing and partnership with foreign companies.
Rafiqul Islam Rowly, president of BASIS, said, ‘we have a serious image problem in the international market and our strategy is to bring the potential foreign companies to the country through this fair so that they can see for themselves the progress in our ICT sector’.
Denmark will be the theme country for this year’s event and IT Industry Association of Denmark will be the association partner of BASIS Softexpo 2008.
Danish Federation of Small and Medium Industries, Paris Chamber of Commerce and Industry, UK Trade and Investment, Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO), will all be strategic partners of the exposition.
Rafiqul Islam said, ‘Denmark is the theme country for this year because they are emerging as the engine of our joint venture and outsourcing businesses in the software industry.’
Natahalia Feinberg, chargé d’affaires of Danish Embassy in Dhaka, said around 15 Denmark-Bangladesh joint ventures had been established in the country and many Danish companies are also outsourcing software development mainly in architecture, graphic design and 3D animation to Bangladesh.
She said about 15-20 Danish firms are coming to the expo and she hoped that the number of partnerships and joint venture will increase this year.
Tomohiro Kinomoto, representative of Japan External Trade Organisation in Dhaka, said Japanese companies are looking for outsourcing partners in Bangladesh. He said a total of six Japanese companies will participate at this year’s exposition in their bid to find outsourcing partners.
Kevin Ringham of the UK Trade and Investment at the British High Commission in Dhaka said there are opportunities for UK and Bangladeshi companies to work together. UK Trade and Investment will promote UK companies that collaborate with Bangladeshi ones, he said .
Shakhwat Ali, director of Export Promotion Bureau, Feroz Mahmood, country representative of Microsoft and Mostofa Jabbar, president of Bangladesh Computer Samity were present at the press conference.
The theme of this year event is ‘Get, Gain and Grow’.
Around 200 software and IT service companies are expected to participate at the fair. The exhibition will be categorised into zones such as business software, outsourcing, multimedia, animation and games, e-commerce, e-governance, hardware technology solution, telecommunication and networking, and a number of other categories.
The expo will also feature a Best IT Use Award, IT job fair and seminars on IT issues like e-commerce, e-governance, cyber laws, access to finance, and human resource development.
Organisers expect about one lakh visitors at the exhibition.
Source: Newage
International textile, garments machinery show begins in Dhaka city tomorrow
A four-day international textile and garments machinery exhibition will begin in the city’s Bangladesh-China Friendship Conference Centre (BCFCC) in the city tomorrow (January 21). Most modern garment and textile machinery will be put on display at the fair. Addressing a press conference on the eve of the fair, Bangladesh Textile Mills Association (BTMA) Chairman Abdul Hye Sarker said the country’s entrepreneurs, especially the owners of small and medium apparel units, will have a chance to procure machinery from the fair. The event is being jointly organised by BTMA, ES Event Management of Malaysia, and Yorkers Trade and Marketing Service Company of Hong Kong. A total of 415 companies will exhibit a wide variety of state-of-the-art textile and garments technologies, machinery and parts.
The organisers said the event will be a gateway to provide and create more opportunity for local exporters to come in contact or deal with related manufacturers, regional agents and wholesalers at one place and will also be a source of high quality machinery, equipment and materials. The show will exhibit subjects ranging from textile to garment, dyeing to finishing, embroidery to knitting and related processing equipment and accessories. More than 730 booths with world-class leading brands from Austria, Bangladesh, Belgium, Brazil, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, the Netherlands, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Turkey, the United Kingdom and the United States of America will gather in the one-stop selling and searching platform.
Apart from BTMA officials, Judy Wang, manager of ES Event Management, and Tiger Lin, general manager of Yorkers Trade and Marketing Service Company Limited were present at the press conference.
Source: Financial Express
