Exhibition News
- Optoelectronics Expo lauded by Canadian companies
Date: 10-Sep-2007 Sources: (Shenzhen Daily)
THE Ninth China International Optoelectronics Exposition (CIOE), which closed at the Shenzhen Convention and Exhibition Center yesterday, was hailed as a success by participating Canadian exhibitors.
The Canadian delegation to this year's CIOE, organized by the Canadian Advanced Technology Alliance (CATA), included six leading Canadian photonics companies.
The Ottawa-based CATA opened a representative office at the Shenzhen High-Tech Industrial Park in Nanshan District in 2004.
'Through the fair, I've made many contacts with Chinese cable TV companies and telecoms carriers and hopefully we can get some contracts signed in the next few months,'said Omur M. Sezerman, president and CEO of Ottawa-based OZ Optics Ltd.
'I'm very happy to have come to the exposition because I wouldn't have been able to increase my company's sales without coming to China, which is such an important market around the world today,'said Sezerman, who attended CIOE for the third consecutive year.
OZ Optics Ltd., a company specializing in fiber optic distributed strain and temperature sensors and fiber optic network monitoring and fault detection requirements, has a number of Chinese clients including Huawei Technologies and PetroChina Co. Ltd.
With more than several hundred companies, the Canadian photonics industry has a 30-year tradition of innovation and excellence, according to Kevin Wennekes, vice present of CATA,
At the height of the optical boom in 2000, Canada supplied 41 percent of the worldwide demand for telecom optical components.
'The potential economic impact of photonics technologies for Canada over the next 10 years is considerable, with predicted growth rates of up to 25 percent and access to global markets worth hundreds of billions of dollars,'said Wennekes.
Wennekes said he would endeavor to bring more Canadian companies to next year's CIOE in Shenzhen.
With about 300 display booths, this year's CIOE, which ran from Thursday until Sunday, attracted more than 1,900 companies from 41 countries and regions as well as more than 80,000 professional buyers and visitors.
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