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The third Gulf Industry Fair (GIF 2010) will have a truly international flavour when it welcomes visitors to the Bahrain International Exhibition Centre (BIEC) from January 12 to 14, 2010.
Organisers Hilal Conferences & Exhibitions (HCE) say the number of exhibitors from outside the Kingdom of Bahrain significantly surpass that for the 2009 show, demonstrating not only the fair's growing reputation as the most important and comprehensive industry-related exhibition of its type in the Northern Gulf, but also the strong regional industrial market opportunities available.
GIF 2010 will feature high-calibre exhibitors from Canada, Hong Kong, India, Kuwait, The Netherlands, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Taiwan, the UAE, the UK and the US, as well as those from the host country.
Products and services will be showcased across a diverse range of industrial sectors, from aluminium, machine tools, industrial equipment and manufacturing to automation, metal, energy, logistics and metrology.
Strategic event partners such as government-owned Bahrain Petroleum Company (Bapco), one of the Gulf's leading refiners and pioneer of environmentally-friendly refinery technologies, will share BIEC exhibition halls with a diverse mix of established downstream industrial suppliers and dynamic market debutants.
HCE says interest in GIF 2010 among international, regional and local exhibitors is stimulated by huge industrial infrastructure projects in the Gulf, in particular, Saudi Arabia.
For example, Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (Sabic) is expected to spend a minimum of $48 billion on developing 30 major petrochemical projects between 2011 and 2020, while Saudi Electricity Company plans to invest $51 billion on boosting electricity production capacity by 60 per cent by 2015.
Jubran Abdulrahman, managing director, HCE, said: "The range of high-calibre international exhibitors at Gulf Industry Fair 2010 reflects the unparalleled business opportunities available in key industrial sectors such as petrochemicals, electricity production and distribution, iron, steel and aluminium, led by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia."
Running alongside GIF 2010 at the same venue on January 12 will be the Gulf Industry Forum, the first industry-focused event of its type in the region.
