Bookings good

Information from the organisers, Koelnmesse and the National Hardware Association, reveals that the show is already 75 per cent booked up seven months before the start of the event. They expect 2 000 exhibitors and 30 000 trade visitors to attend the world's second largest hardware trade fair, which will be open for business in the New International Exhibition Center in Shanghai from 16 to 18 September 2009. On display there will be tools and hardware, along with the categories of security, locks and fittings.