Bangladesh woodworking and furniture sector can tap huge potentials of grabbing growing market at home and abroad by improving productivity and quality using modern machineries, and materials.
Besides, building and construction sector has to attain further capacity through raising skills of the workforces as well as encouraging manufacturers to produce global-standard materials for flourishing the emerging industry.
Speakers made the views at a ceremony to inaugurate three-day long international trade shows on Building & Construction; and Wood & Woodworking Technology kicked off at International Convention City, Bashundhara (ICCB) in Dhaka on Thursday.
ASK Trade & Exhibitions Pvt Ltd and Futurex Trade Fairs & Events Pvt. Ltd organised the expos titled “5th edition Bangladesh BUILDCON International Expo 2019” and “5th International JAT Presents Bangladesh WOOD 2019.”
The tradeshows will focus on architecture, building & construction showcasing materials, products, tools & machinery, and technology for the woodworking & furniture sector of Bangladesh, said a press release.
Bishwadip Dey, deputy high commissioner of India in Bangladesh inaugurated the expos as the chief guest. Engineer A N M Enayet Ullah, superintendent engineer of Local Government Engineering Department; Md. Abu Yousuf, chairman, Furniture Sector Industry Skills Council; K.M. Akhtaruzzaman, chairman, Bangladesh Furniture Exporters Associations; Prem Anveshi, managing director of Futurex Trade Fair and Events Private Limited; Nanda Gopal, director, and Tipu Sultan Bhuiyan, managing director of ASK Trade & Exhibitions Private Limited were present.
A total of 250 exhibitors from 10 countries are displaying over 3000 products including, materials, products, equipment, machinery & technology related to building & construction, roadways along with woodworking machinery for furniture production, hardware and tools, fittings and fixtures, laminates, boards, coating, abrasives & adhestives, for the benefit of the woodworking and furniture sector of the country.
"The tradeshow is organized to focus woodworking and furniture sector of the country to enable it modernize and improve productivity with exposure to machinery, equipment, tools, materials being showcased by international exhibitors,” said Tipu Sultan Bhuiyan.
“Similarly our shows focus on bringing global technology and materials close to the door steps of local manufacturers be it in the Furniture sector or the Building & Construction sector of the country," he added.
International leading companies from China, India, Turkey, Hong Kong, USA, Sri Lanka, Austria, Malaysia, Italy and Bangladesh will take part at the shows. The shows will remain open between 11am to 8pm every day. Entry is free for all.
ON DISPLAY at Bangladesh WOOD 2019 will be assembling solutions, brushes & rollers, accessories, calibrating & sanding machines, exterior cladding ,countertop compact, sandwich compact, laboratory grade, restroom cubicles decorative panels pre-laminated boards, designer laminated sheets, door fittings, door skin, fasteners ,furniture fittings, high-pressure laminates, digital &fire retardant laminates, metal laminates, legs, locks, table equipment, wardrobe accessories, connectors, profiles , furniture equipment, screws and dowels, hinges, hydraulic presses, kitchen accessories, modular furniture machines, panel processing, machines , investment for plantations for different types of wood, kitchen hardware, kitchen countertop profiles, panels plywood making machines, plywood, block board-flush door, particle boards, mdf, densified - engineered plywood , timber, resins & chemicals, wood working adhesives & abrasives, saw milling machine tools , electric brad nailers, electric staplers, flooring nailers, hammer tackers, hand tackers, manual hog ringers, pneumatic brad nailers, pneumatic coil nailers, pneumatic hog ringers, pneumatic pinners, pneumatic pliers, pneumatic staplers, staple removers, carton, staplers, composite hand tackers, veneers &face veneers wooden doors, wood coatings & finishes, wood lacquer, wood working machines
ON DISPLAY at International BUILDCON Bangladesh 2019 will be ACP, architectural glass , asphalt mix plants , building materials, bathroom fittings & accessories, building strengthening systems, casement doors & windows , civilengineering testing instruments , coal mining rock bolts compaction machines, concrete & bitumen testing equipment, concrete brick & block machines, concrete pipe, machines construction chemicals, control systems, automation panel, crane & soil compactor, crane buildings, double story buildings, equipment for batching plants, concrete pump & mixtures, fly ash & clc block making machine, fly ash brick machines, hardware & fittings, hot rolled threaded rods, hydraulic formwork, lgsf buildings, light weight fly ash making machine, lighting, material handling equipment, metal pipe bonding technology, mezzanine flooring systems, mobile concrete mixtures, mobile drum mix plants, piling tools, pipes & fittings, pvc doors & windows, road construction equipment, block & tile machines, self-drilling anchor systems, self-loading mixtures, soil testing equipment, thermal & acoustic insulation, tie & coil rods, tmt bar bending machines, tunnel construction products, warehousing, waterproofing, coating & sealing products, wedge welding technology,
