EXHIBITION, WORKSHOPS AND SEMINARS
The year 2011 is the first year of the “Twelfth Five-Year Plan” of China, for which the State has set new standards regarding energy conservation, environment protection and low-carbon economy to the overall glass industry of China in order to promote upgrading and technical progress of the glass industry. And with this context in mind, the 2011 edition of China Glass, held in Shanghai, in May, closed its doors with positive results. The event attracted 766 exhibitors, including 205 international companies, from 26 countries: China, Germany, Italy, the United States, Belgium, the United Kingdom, France, Finland, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Sweden, Czech Republic, Austria, Australia, Canada, Israel, Japan, Korea, India, Indonesia, Singapore, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan and Monaco. Moreover, Italy, Germany and the United States organized their state exhibitor groups to attend the show. The exhibition area was increased to 67,500 square metres from 65,000 square metres in 2010. Numerous world-famous glass-related enterprises came to showcase their up-to-date products, equipment and technologies. The exhibition covered almost all scopes of the glass industry, involving upstream and downstream industries, including glass products and application, glass-related instruments and equipment, auto-control systems and their supporting systems, glass-processing equipment, abrasive materials and machinery, special glass and processing equipment, ...

EXHIBITION, WORKSHOPS AND SEMINARS
The year 2011 is the first year of the “Twelfth Five-Year Plan” of China, for which the State has set new standards regarding energy conservation, environment protection and low-carbon economy to the overall glass industry of China in order to promote upgrading and technical progress of the glass industry. And with this context in mind, the 2011 edition of China Glass, held in Shanghai, in May, closed its doors with positive results. The event attracted 766 exhibitors, including 205 international companies, from 26 countries: China, Germany, Italy, the United States, Belgium, the United Kingdom, France, Finland, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Sweden, Czech Republic, Austria, Australia, Canada, Israel, Japan, Korea, India, Indonesia, Singapore, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan and Monaco. Moreover, Italy, Germany and the United States organized their state exhibitor groups to attend the show. The exhibition area was increased to 67,500 square metres from 65,000 square metres in 2010. Numerous world-famous glass-related enterprises came to showcase their up-to-date products, equipment and technologies. The exhibition covered almost all scopes of the glass industry, involving upstream and downstream industries, including glass products and application, glass-related instruments and equipment, auto-control systems and their supporting systems, glass-processing equipment, abrasive materials and machinery, special glass and processing equipment, refractory, raw materials and auxiliary materials, especially achievements and development trends in relation to low-carbon, energy-saving and new energy technologies.
This event attracted over 28,440 professional visitors, including 2,000 international, coming to the show from 93 countries. Governmental or nongovernmental visiting groups came from Korea, Malaysia, India, Turkey and Vietnam. During the exhibition, three special workshops and 20 technical seminars were held. The International Symposium on Advanced Glass Melting Technology was attended by over 200 scientists and experts, who discussed electric melting technology, oxygen fuel-firing and oxygen combustion technologies, advanced glass processes, advanced glass-forming technology and energy saving and environment protection in the glass production process. GPD China 2011, held during China Glass, had 310 participants and focused on new technologies in architectural glass and solar glass.
Moreover, the Shanghai Association for Science and Technology also held a special workshop on new materials ‘Transformation and application of scientific technologies of the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai’. Taking advantage of this glass show, many enterprises held conferences to promote their products and technologies, such as the ‘2011 briefing meeting’ given by Glaston, ‘Newest vision technology’ by Isra Vision, a promotion conference by Shahe Municipal Government of the Hebei Province, as well as other promotional activities by China Glass Network, China Triumph and so on.
China Glass 2011 attracted not only wellknown and large-sized enterprises, but also many less famous companies. In recent years, supported by related policies of the State, many small-sized or non-state-owned enterprises have benefited very much and developed rapidly. At this year’s China Glass, these companies increased the size of their booths, with some reaching 300 square metres or more.

INNOVATIVE PRODUCTS AND TECHNOLOGIES
At the exhibition, the latest products and technologies showed by many exhibitors played the leading role. Lisec displayed its 2 x 1.9-metre glass photovoltaic modules with the highest camber of 120N/mm2, which employed a new technology of frame-free modules. The ultra-thin glass is produced by means of coldbending technology for parabolic glass without roller deformation, so as to reach higher flatness, longer useful life and better comprehensive performance.
Equipment and technology developed by Bottero Shaghai reached international advanced level, such as robotics, cutting machine, high-speed double-edge grinding machine and stackers for photovoltaic glass production, which provided support to the application of glass products to the new energy field.
Glaston showed its new technologies oriented to vigorously developed markets of solar glass and low-E glass, as well as its longitudinal convective upgrading system for tempering low-E glass and turnkey projects of solar glass. North China had on show a super-large benttempered glass sheet, 18 metres long, 3.6 metres wide and 15 millimetres thick, which is the largest in the world now. This product was successfully applied in the Shanghai flagship store of the Apple Inc. China Triumph developed TFT-LCD glass substrates with independent intellectual property rights, TCO conductive coating glass, as well as systems of power generation with desulphurization and denitration of glass furnace flue gas.
High-performance three-silver low-E glass production from Taiwan Glass is the most advanced technology in China, which is especially applicable to the construction of hightransparency buildings.

ENERGY EFFICIENCY AND CONSERVATION AND EMISSION REDUCTION
Technical products and auxiliary materials related to energy efficiency could be found easily at the show, such as low-E coated glass, off-line double- and three-silver coating technology and equipment, insulating glass equipment and relevant serial products of various combinations. Shanghai Yaohua Pilkington exhibited its new-type super energy-saving insulating glass, which was developed on a new idea completely different from the conventional concept regarding low-E coating glass. This glass has extremely low heat-conductive coefficient so as to attain very high effectiveness of energy conservation.
As a major supplier of flat glass and ultrawhite glass in China, Jinjing Group presented its solar reflection-reducing glass, newly developed low-E glass and three-in-one photovoltaic glass featuring high transparency, longterm efficiency and high cleanness, which have been widely used in such fields as building curtains, solar heat energy and photovoltaic industry.
TCO glass has now become a key product used in thin-film PV cells, and many companies have followed its production closely, such as Weihai Blue Star, China Triumph, Shenzhen Southern Float Glass and Zhuzhou Kibing. All these companies are actively developing online TCO glass.
Apart form low-iron glass, ultra-white solarenergy float glass and ultra-white rolling glass, one could also see PVB encapsulation material of solar-energy photovoltaic modules, sealants for solar glass panels, in addition to new technologies and equipment related to solar glass production at the show.
The operation of the first oxy-fuel firing float glass production line in China is indicative of a new energy-saving and emission-reducing phase of the Chinese glass industry. Oxy-fuel firing technology and a host of refractories and related products for oxy-fuel firing furnaces, such as fused cast alpha-beta alumina crowns, fused cast alumina forehearth bricks and lowglass phase fused cast AZS, have been given great interests from the visitors.
Technical seminars held during the exhibition comprised an important part of the show, informing on the latest achievements and development trends of the industry. Topics of the seminars were mostly placed on the application of energy-saving and environment protection techniques, such as ‘Application and practice of oxygen fuel technology in the float glass industry in China’ given by China Triumph, ‘Advanced oxy-fuel combustion technology application in the glass industry’ by Air Liquide China, ‘Update on oxy-fuel application in the Asian Glass Industry’ by Air Products & Chemicals (China).

RAPID DEVELOPMENT AND TRENDS
At China Glass, the most imported and foreign made products were machinery such as cutting, cold-end and on-line examination equipment. An example of this is that of Shenzhen Shen Nan Yi, a Chinese company of processed glass, participating in China Glass for the first time, and whose products have been applied to more than 500 marking architectural projects in the world. Even if the 22nd China International Glass Industrial Technical Exhibition has closed its doors, both the Chinese and global glass industry are continuing to make sustainable technical progress.
China Glass 2012 will be held once again in Shanghai, to welcome the global glass communities.