The 27th China International Glass Industrial Technical Exhibition (China Glass 2016) was held in Shanghai New International Expo Center from April 11th to 14th, 2016. The exhibition area was 80500 m2 and a total of 886 exhibitors from 31 different countries including 230 foreign exhibitors participated in the exhibition. On the opening day it was extremely crowded because there were more than 11000 persons including one thousand foreigners coming to visit the exhibition. According to the statistic data during the exhibition over 23000 visitors including more than 2000 foreign ones came to the exhibition to pay visitation and/or make trade talks.
The current exhibition had 7 exhibiting halls to show new energy-saving architectural glass, ultra-thin functional glass, sheet glass for cars, tempered glass, chalcogenide glasses,fire-proof glass and glass ceramics, etc. and also exhibited various large glass processing equipment, on-line glass inspection apparatus, robots on glass production line and new abrasive materials and grinding tools, etc. They almost covered all new products, equipment and new technology in glass industry and also involved many other related industries. During the exhibition there were 10 seminars on new technique, new equipment and technology and 3 new product launches. A total of 4 foreign companies and 8 domestic companies presented their reports that involved advanced detection instruments for glass product inspection, glasses for new energy materials, new vacuum glass, new refractories for glass melting furnaces, new type of thermal - oxygen fuel combustion technology, new techniques for art glass production and latest technology and complete set of equipment for bottle glass manufacturing, etc.