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Industrial machinery fair planned for May in Jakarta
Indonesia will hold the seventh industrial machinery fair in May, with around 250 local and foreign machinery producers set to participate
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Indonesia will hold the seventh industrial machinery fair in May, with around 250 local and foreign machinery producers set to participate.
The annual fair will feature industrial machinery ranging from packaging and food processing machines to pharmacy and printing machines.
"Through this fair, we hope businessmen will be able to easily find affordable machinery suitable for their business so they can produce high quality products," director of PT Mass Komunikasi and fair organizer Irene said Wednesday.
The fair will be held at the Jakarta Fair Ground from May 14-17.
"Of the total (participants), 100 are foreign ... from Taiwan, Malaysia, Hong Kong, China, Japan, Italy and Korea, while the other 150 are local big machinery producers," she said.
Last year, she said, the fair attracted more than 12,000 visitors with 8,900 of them making purchases, including such major firms as plastic producer PT Lion Star and consumer goods producer PT Indofood Sukses Makmur.
"The total transaction from local participants reached Rp 9 billion," Irene said, declining to reveal the total transaction from foreign participants.
The fair is supported by the Trade Ministry, the Industry Ministry, the Indonesia Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the Indonesia Packaging Federation, the Taiwan Food and Pharmacy Machinery Manufacturer's Association and the Taiwan Plastics Industry Association.
