The China Fastener Show will be held online August 10-13, 2020.

Show management said the virtual show is “taking advantage of modern technology” to become a “new mode new business opportunity.”

China Fastener Show Online is inviting 50,000 buyers to connect with 500 exhibitors without traveling.  Travel has become “difficult in the current global circumstances,” the trade show noted.

The online trade show would include “exhibition halls” with live video, real time negotiation, supply and procurement connection and real time transaction.

The China show projects 500 virtual exhibitors of fasteners, stamping and lathe parts or related products and services.  Web: FastenerShow.com

The trade show’s website note “COVID-19 blocks normal international exchanges, and exhibitions around the world have either been postponed or canceled. In order to break the limitation of space and make suppliers and buyers negotiate and close the deal smoothly online.”

The trade show “makes full use of 16-year experience in B2B platform operation and 11-year experience in Fastener Expo Shanghai, and devotes all efforts to organize the first China fastener show (online) in history.”

China fastener show provides all-weather data exhibition hall, live video, real-time negotiation, supply and procurement connection, real-time transaction, online activities and other scenes to create interactive and immersive shopping experience for visitors.

Exhibitors can give potential customers items such as E-business cards and E-catalogs.

  • Fastener Fair USA is surveying the industry asking questions that imply it may adopt virtual format.

For example, FF USA asks survey participants to rate the suitability of a “digital alternative” to a traditional physical booth trade show.  The questions offer a range of 1-to-5 on suitability for networking, product seeing, negotiating and buying and content sharing with online streaming solutions.

The survey asks participants whether a wide variety of traditional trade show face-to-face activities could be digital, such as gathering knowledge, connecting with a few specific people, viewing different exhibitors virtual stands, networking with new people

The third Fastener Fair USA was scheduled for late May 2020 in Charlotte and then postponed to late July.  Subsequently the 2020 trade show was cancelled and the next date is March 23-25, 2021, in Cleveland.  Web: FastenerFairUSA.com

  • The physical Taiwan International Fastener Show was postponed from April until October 14-16, 2020, in Kaohsiung.

A sponsoring organization, the Taiwan External Trade Development Council – known as TAITRA, has begun conducting “contactless online trade missions.”  In May, TAITRA held Taiwan’s first contactless online trade mission and for 12 Taiwanese companies from the machinery, beauty, food, auto parts, hardware and medical sectors to meet international buyers in over 100 online meeting sessions. The online trade mission drew 70 buyers from Thailand and the Philippines.  TAITRA has scheduled two more events in June and September for buyers from India and Japan.

“The coronavirus has been impacting the global economy since its outbreak in January 2020,” TAITRA noted.  “As countries continue to implement lockdown measures, physical international trading events have grinded to a halt.  Online business activities on the other hand have surged and are being embraced by more and more businesses worldwide.”

TAITRA noted that as of May 22, there are more than five million confirmed COVID-19 cases worldwide.  Taiwan had only 441 confirmed cases reported and 40 consecutive days of zero domestic transmissions, 350 imported cases, seven deceased cases, 408 cases released from isolation, and the remainder hospitalized in stable condition.  Web: FastenerTaiwan.com.tw