CIFF Shanghai Collaborates with WMF-International Woodworking Machinery Fair

Furniture World News Desk on 8/15/2018

CIFF-Shanghai recently announced that from September 10th to 13th, Shanghai will be hosting the 1st edition of the Shanghai International Furniture Machinery & Woodworking Machinery Fair, a new event born from the collaboration between CIFF and WMF-International Woodworking Machinery Fair.

The exhibition is to take place in the National Exhibition and Convention Center in the Hongqiao district, which will be hosting both CIFF-Shanghai & the new woodworking fair. The two big events will be under the same roof.  The new event dedicated to woodworking technologies will include more than 550 exhibitors over 570 thousand square feet and more than 1,100 machines on display; and the fourth edition of CIFF Shanghai will be spread over 4.7 million square feet with 2,000 exhibitors, and over 90 thousand visitors.

The new woodworking event is sponsored by Eumabois, the European Federation of Furniture & Woodworking Technology and Machinery Manufacturers. Two pavilions will house the exhibition – 7.1 and 8.1 – displaying solutions from traditional and “stand alone” machines to the most complex lines in full accordance with “Industry 4.0” philosophy. The exhibition will include a wide section dedicated to two woodworking issues: The big equipment needed for wooden-based-panel production and the very first solid wood machining, two categories in which the demand for innovation is particularly high.

Many global leaders have confirmed their participation in this first edition: from German giants Homag, Weinig, Siempelkamp and Wenhoener to big Italian groups Biesse and Scm, in addition to the most important Chinese manufacturers and operators, among which Nanxing, Jinan Restar, Yalian, Foma Group, Swpm, Lmt, Ruiwudi, Leke, Huajian, Yuantina, Lianrou, Hengkang, Fuyi and Zinqunli.

The exhibition is the result of the efforts made by the CFTE- China Foreign Trade Guangzhou Exhibition General Corporation (organizer of both Guangzhou and Shanghai CIFF editions), in collaboration with Red Star Macalline, (Furniture distributor in China with over 260 malls), and with Adsale Exhibition Service Ltd., which has organized the technology exhibition in the Chinese capital in partnership with the China Foreign Trade Guangzhou Exhibition General Corporation.

Organizers have merged the CIFM-China International Furniture Machinery (an event dedicated to technologies that already used to be part of CIFF) with the Woodworking and Furniture Manufacturing Equipment and The International Exhibition on Woodworking Machinery Supplies and Accessory (better known as the Beijing Woodwork Fair, whose latest edition took place in Beijing in June 2016).