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Int'l exhibition helps boost trade in machinery

Hanoi (VNA) - Local and foreign businesses attending an exhibition on engineering, machinery and metalworking in Hanoi , have described the event as a good chance to expand cooperative ties and increase business efficiency.

The fourth Vietnam International Precision Engineering, Machine Tools and Metalworking Exhibition and Conference (MTA Vietnam) is important to Japanese businesses, serving as a forum for them to meet and seek partners, the Japan External Trade Organisation (JETRO) Overseas Trade Fair Division Director Masami Ando said.

He told the press at the opening ceremony of exhibition on July 9 that Vietnamese and Japanese businesses signed six contracts worth more than 136,000 USD and registered their transactions valued at over 1.8 million USDduring last year's event in Ho Chi Minh City .

Along with assisting Japanese businesses in joining MTA Vietnam, JETRO held separate exhibitions to help small and medium Vietnamese businesses exhibitspare parts and industrial machinery to Japanese businesses.

Director of the Industrial Service and Development Centre of Thailand Vinai Thipaischajonsak said this is the second time his business has joined MTAVietnam and he hoped that it would find more new partners after this event.

CEO Hang Lien Bang of the OLAS Co Ltd, a Vietnamese provider of laser cutting and welding machines, said he considers the event an opportunity to learn about new science and technology to improve production and businessefficiency.

MTA Vietnam plays an important role in industrial operations in the context that the industrial sector is seeking to reform its technology during the industrialisation process, the event organiser and Vietnam Chamber ofCommerce and Industry Chairman Vu Tien Loc said.

MTA Vietnam has been held in Ho Chi Minh City for the past three years and this is the first time it has been held in Hanoi . The event, which runs through July 12, attracted more than 380 businesses, including 300 foreign companies, from 25 countries and territories.-Enditem

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