Exhibition
FASTENER POLAND 2024
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The Industry Exchange Platform Closer to Central and Eastern European Buyers
Fastener Poland, the annual professional event for the fastener industry in Central and Eastern Europe, was held at Expo Krakow on Sep. 25-26. More than 140 exhibitors from Poland, Germany, Italy, China, the Czech Rep., Taiwan, the UK, Turkey, Pakistan, Malta, the U.S., the UAE, Denmark, and India registered for the show, with Taiwan and China being the largest overseas pavilions of the show. The exhibits included industrial fasteners and fixings, building fasteners, assembly and installation systems, fastener manufacturing technology, storage and distribution equipment, and related services.
Krakow, once the capital of Poland, has played an important role in Poland's history and is now one of the country's major business, culture and science centers. Poland's proximity to Ukraine, Germany, the Czech Rep., Slovakia, Belarus, and Lithuania makes it a key hub for trade among countries in Central and Eastern Europe. Coupled with the rapid economic development and GDP growth of Central and Eastern European countries in recent years, the demand for construction and automotive fasteners continues to increase. In the first 8 months of 2024, Poland ranked as Taiwan's 9th largest fastener export partner. Taiwan exported nearly 20,000 metric tons of fasteners to Poland, showing a significant increase of 31.69% over the same period of last year. Poland also had the highest YoY increase among Taiwan's top 10 fastener export partners.
Optimistic about the future economic development of the Central and Eastern European market, Fastener World also led nearly 30 Taiwanese exhibitors to exhibit and exchange with local buyers face-to-face this year, including De Hui, Gold Head, Ie Perng, Lin-Yu, Loyal & Birch, Ray Fu, Shiang Ging, SPEC, Sprout Tooling, Taiwan Precision Fastener, TIFI, Wa Tai, Yuding, Yeswin, Joker, Jiele, Homn Reen, Hoplite, Konfu, Mao Chuan, Riu Fastener, San Yung, Tai Huei, Chite, and Chen Tai. On the first day of the show, many local buyers from Poland came to look for potential exhibiting suppliers. As there were many exhibitors from Taiwan and China this year, it was also more convenient for local buyers wanting to purchase high quality or competitively priced fasteners or even machinery & equipment from Asia. On the first day of the show, the organizer also invited several industry experts to give speeches on market trends.
Although this show is relatively a regional exhibition for the Central & East European market, Fastener World's on-site staff also met visitors from Iceland, the UAE, the UK, and even Ukraine coming to inquire about specific customized products, in addition to inquiries from local buyers. A few Taiwanese exhibitors told Fastener World that they had heard that the Polish market is a new star in the Central and Eastern European market, so in addition to exchanging ideas with local buyers during the show, they also arranged to meet with a few local manufacturers after the show in the hope of bringing more orders back to Taiwan through this business trip. Timo Scholle, Managing Director of Achilles Seibert, a famous fastener importer from Germany, who also participated in this year's show, told Fastener World that it was their first time to participate in Fastener Poland and they hoped to know more about the Polish market and expect more cooperation opportunities.
The organizer has announced that the next edition will be held on Oct. 15-16 at the same venue. For more details about the show, please stay tuned for the latest info at www.fastener-world.com.
