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Friday, 17 August 2012

International machinery expo starts in Cambodia to boost industries

Xinhua | 17th August, 2012
By Agencies 

The second Cambodia-International Machinery Industrial Fair kicked off on Friday, aiming at promoting the development of industries, officials said.

More than 200 exhibitors from 20 countries and regions have been displaying the international leading brands of industrial equipment in textile and garment, footwear and leather, fabrics and garment accessories, plastics and rubber, printing and packaging, food processing, medical and pharmaceutical equipment, and agriculture-related machinery, said Judy Wang, president of Yorkers Trade and Marketing Service of Hong Kong, which organized the event.

The exhibitors are from Cambodia, China, Czech, Germany, China's Hong Kong, China's Taiwan, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, Spain, Sri Lanka, Switzerland, Thailand, the United Kingdom, the United States and Vietnam, she said.


The 4-day event, held at the capital's Diamond Island Exhibition Center, would be a platform for manufacturers, buyers, traders, distributors, and government officials to meet in order to exchange ideas on the development of industrial sector.

"It is also a chance for manufacturers to modernize their machinery to increase production capacity," she said, adding that this year's event was 35 percent bigger in scale than that of last year.

Mao Thora, secretary of state at the Ministry of Commerce, said at the inaugural ceremony that Cambodian industrial base mainly relied on garment, accounted for about 75 percent of the country's industrial sector.

"The event paves the way for Cambodia to develop its current and future machinery industries with up-to-date modern technologies," he said.

He added that industries are deemed to be main pillars of the Cambodian economic development and they have been starting to gain steady progress in recent years.

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