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Qingdao to welcome world's top industrial automation companies
By Wang Xiantao (China Daily Shandong Bureau)
Updated: 2009-08-19 11:52

Qingdao: Three hundred of the world's top industrial automation enterprises will take part in the 11th China International Industrial Automation & Instruments Exhibition on August 20.

The four-day exhibition will display new technology, products and services within the field of industrial automation, featuring new items from leading international brands including Siemens, Schneider Electric, Mitsubishi Electric and LS Electrogenesis.

More than 30,000 representatives from 15 countries, including the United States, Japan, Korea, as well as 32 local cities and provinces, are expected to take part in the event.

A variety of events will be held during the exhibition, such as the 2009 Shandong Automatic Technology Exchange Meeting, the Autonics New Product Release Conference and the Siemens Control System Technology Lecture.

The exhibition is jointly sponsored by the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade, the China Computer User Association and the Shandong Provincial Association of Automation.

The event, which started in 2001, has gradually developed into an influential industrial automation exhibition in Asia and become a platform for the world’s leading automation companies.