MTA2015 kicks off with new special areas

The show runs until Friday, 17 April. The gross exhibition space is 15,000 square meters with 350 companies in which 52% are from overseas.

This year there are seven pavilions including Germany, 2 from Korea, 2 from Singapore, Taiwan and United Kingdom. Participating countries are: Australia, Austria, Canada, China, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, Myanmar, Singapore, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, United Kingdom, United States, and Vietnam.

MTA2015 incorporates MetalAsia2015, Outsource&Subcon2015, iAutomation2015, WeldTech2015 and ToolTec2015.

The show highlights manufacturing excellence Singapore in industries such as Aerospace, Complex Equipment, Electronics, Energy, Medical Technology and Oil & Gas / Marine & Offshore Engineering.

Open from until Friday 17 April at the Singapore Expo, visitors to MTA2015 will get to interact with 350 companies from 27 countries and regions. These companies bring some of the world’s most progressive precision engineering and machine tool technologies that are available in today’s marketplace.

“At one-fifth of Singapore’s GDP and employing half a million people, our manufacturing sector is re-structuring. It is heading towards high value-added engineering production. A number of our firms enjoy technology and market leadership in sub-sectors such as semiconductor equipment, diagnostic tools, biologics, hard disk drive media and offshore oil and gas platforms. Building on these achievements, we aspire to become an advanced manufacturing hub of tomorrow,” said Mr. Lee Yi Shyan, Senior Minister of State, Ministry of Trade and Industry and Ministry of National Development, and Guest-of-Honour at the MTA2015 opening ceremony held this morning at the event.

Mr. Lee also stressed that “manufacturing firms need to stay ahead of competition by aggressive adoption of the latest technologies, including additive manufacturing and robotics.”