Investment/METALEX 2022

Editorial team

METALEX 2022 is expected to attract more than 85,000 visitors and generate around 6.5 billion baht in trade value.
 

RX Tradex officially opened METALEX 2022 - machine tools & metalworking exhibition serving ASEAN, consisting of six halls to connect over 85,000 metalworking industrialists across the world with more than 2,500 brands of high-tech metalworking machine tools and leaders of innovation from eight technologically advanced countries and administrative subdivisions.

Approximately 6.5 billion baht in trade value is expected to be generated in the event.

Mr Nattapol Rangsitpol, permanent secretary of the Ministry of Industry serving as the chair of METALEX 2022’s opening ceremony, said that the ASEAN region is full of market opportunities for machinery and technology providers because the manufacturing sector continues to grow.

Some segments were disrupted during the COVID-19 pandemic, but they have already shown signs of recovery following the return of consumer demands worldwide.

“ We also see the relocation of the production base of many automobile and electronic brands to this region. In addition, the 4.0 digital transformation, and the global rise of ESG ideology (environmental, social, and governance), and what the government has adapted into a BCG business model (bio-circular-green economy), have motivated manufacturers to consider the adoption of automated technology, remote work control, and redesigning some tasks to robots instead of manual labour for safety and productivity, all of which contribute to the growth trajectory of businesses and increase the level of competitiveness both on the local and international levels.”

Mrs. Varaporn Dhamcharee, managing director of RX Tradex (formerly Reed Tradex), ASEAN’s leading exhibition organizer, revealed that the 36 th edition of METALEX and its concept this year is “ASEAN Community Connector”. It is a major international exhibition that will connect industrialists with the latest machine tools and metalworking technologies, as well as
sheet metalworking, wire, and tube fabrication technologies, industrial robots.
The exhibition is now open for all visitors from this November 16-19, at BITEC. It is expected to attract more than 85,000 visitors and generate around6.5 billion baht in trade value.

Visitors will be able to connect with new technologies making debuts for the first time in Asia, ASEAN, and Thailand including MAKINO Machining Center with high machining performance, speed, and accuracy, MAZAK Machining Center with built-in tilting rotary table for multi-surface 5-axis machining of complex shapes, and Water Cutting Machine from FLOW with efficient and accurate cutting up to +/- 0.05 mm/min.

There are international pavilions zones which showcase state-of-the-art machine toolsand metalworking technologies from eightcountries and regions that are leaders in the world’s technology, namely China, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, and Taiwan.

In addition, there are also three special zones including robotics cluster pavilion,
additive manufacturing and smart materials:

There are more than 20 seminar programs, such as “METALEX AI Forum 2022: The Role of AI in the Modern Industrial World,” “The 10th Metallurgy Forum: Adaptation of Thailand’s Aluminum Industry Towards a Circular Economy and Green Production,” and “SmartMove: Driving and Developing Thai Vehicles.”