Global Update: Hospimedica Australia Debuts

The Far East tops this week's roundup of news from the international exhibition industry:

• Atyrau Oil & Gas, April 11–13, will move out of the Atyrau Sports Complex to a new venue. A temporary pavilion is being built for the event near the Renaissance Atyrau Hotel in Atyrau, Kazakhstan, according to organizer ITE Group, London. More than 120 companies from 14 countries will exhibit on a 3,000 square meter (32,000 square foot) showfloor.
• The Korea Disaster Prevention Assn., Korea BCP Assn. and COEX will debut DEMEX, an international disaster and emergency management exhibition, May 22–25 in COEX's Atlantic Hall in Seoul, South Korea. Exhibitors will display disaster management-related products and solutions, and the event will feature an international conference.
• NürnbergMesse China will launch BioFach China, for organic food and certified natural products, May 31–June 2 in the Everbright Exhibition Centre in Shanghai, China. The organizer expects approximately 200 exhibitors.
• Singex Exhibitions postponed its Resort Asia 2007, previously scheduled June 27–30 at Tanjong Beach, Sentosa, Singapore. Delays in confirmation from key international participants caused the postponement, Singex said.
• Guangzhou Guangya, Messe Frankfurt and DEMAT will launch asiamold Sept. 27–29 at the Guangzhou Intl. Convention & Exhibition Centre in Guangzhou, China. The co-organizers expect 20,000 attendees and 250 exhibitors at the international trade fair for mold-making and tooling, design and application development. The spin-off of DEMAT's EuroMold in Frankfurt, Germany, is meant to give European exhibitors and visitors entrée into the Chinese market.
• United Kingdom-based Mack Brooks Exhibitions and InterAds Exhibitions India set up a joint venture called InterAds Brooks to develop new trade fairs in India. It launched Inter Airport India Feb. 21–23 at the Pragati Maidan Exhibition Centre in Delhi, India, and will stage the first Exporail India Oct. 16–18, also in Delhi. Mack Brooks focuses on airport and railway industry fairs.
• Hamburg Messe and the Shanghai Intl. Exhibition Cooperation firm will co-organize the new Wind Power Shanghai 2007 Nov. 1–3 at INTEX Intl. Exhibition Centre in Shanghai. Hamburg Messe organizes the WindEnergy tradeshow in Germany. The new event will include a conference Oct. 31–Nov. 1 at the nearby Sheraton Grand Tai Ping Yang Hotel Shanghai.
• Messe Essen and China United Rubber have formed a joint venture to produce a China edition of the German Reifen Essen, for tire and rubber products. Reifen China is scheduled to open Nov. 14–16 at the Shanghai New Intl. Exhibition Center. China United Rubber also organizes Tyres & RubberTech China.

• The Intl. Catering Trade Fair will have a new name and location May 12–14, 2008, when the Foodservice Suppliers Assn. of Australia and New Zealand and partner Exhibitions and Trade Fairs launch Food-Service Australia 2008. The show will move to the Sydney Convention & Exhibition Centre from the Sydney Showground at Sydney Olympic Park.
• Messe Duesseldorf Asia and Exhibition Organizers are planning Hospimedica Australia, an international exhibition on hospital equipment and services, to debut May 13–15, 2008, in Sydney, Australia. The biennial show is expected to occupy a 53,800 sq. ft. hall at the Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre. It will target physicians, hospital administrators, distributors and agents. Messe Duesseldorf Asia has organized Hospimedica Asia in Singapore every two years since 1997.

• Expomedia Events' MacLive Expo will move from Koelnmesse to Cologne, Germany's EXPO XXI. The scheduled dates, June 21–23, remain unchanged.
• Reed Exhibitions will rebrand the portfolio of personal care and homecare ingredients shows it recently acquired from Step Exhibitions under the banner of its April 17–19 in-cosmetics show in Paris. The first show under the new banner is in-cosmetics Eastern Europe, formerly Chi, in Moscow's Crocus Expo Hall Oct. 25–26, collocated with InterCharm. Reed will also rename PCHi, scheduled for Mumbai, India's Bandra Kurla Complex Nov. 20–21, as in-cosmetics India. The PCIA event in Guangzhou, China, will become in-cosmetics Asia and move to BITEC Bangkok, Nov. 4–6, 2008.
• Integrated Systems Events will launch Integrated Systems Russia, collocated with MidExpo Intl. Exhibitions and Fairs' existing Hi-Tech House and Building show. Both will take place at the Grostiny Dvor in Moscow, Nov. 7–10, with a projected 300 companies from the home and commercial automation industry exhibiting. Integrated Systems Events also produces Integrated Systems Europe.
• Technology & Entertainment Design Network, a manufacturer and supplier of equipment and services for shows and venues, has landed an exclusive contract to promote Rimini Fiera's SIB, an entertainment and broadcast technology exhibition, beginning with the April 5–8, 2008, show. Rimini Fiera in Rimini, Italy, will continue to organize SIB.
• Flanders Expo and Ahoy Rotterdam will spin off InfraTech, the Netherlands trade fair for soil engineering, hydraulic engineering and road engineering held at Ahoy Rotterdam, and launch InfraTech Belgium at Flanders Expo in Ghent, Belgium, May 12–15, 2008. The shows will alternate, taking place in Belgium in even-numbered years and in the Netherlands in odd-numbered years.