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POWTEX Osaka 2009 |
Photos: The sight of INTEX Osaka
 The 8th Powder Technology Exhibition Osaka was held from 21(Wed) to 24(Sat) October at INTEX Osaka in the southern port area. 170 exhibitors in 563 booths welcomed 12,407 visitors in four days. It was very fine in three days from the beginning, visitors together with exhibitors enjoyed the climate. The president of APPIE, Dr. Hitoshi Emi, Prof. em. of Kanazawa University, declared the opening of the Exhibition commenting that despite the economic difficulty we exhibit more booths than before, powder technology is the base of industries, and we appreciate the expectation in creating good business opportunity to revitalize the economy. The duration of the ex
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hibition was extended to Saturday to welcome families of related companies and organizations, therefore visitors in comfortable style with wives and children came to the fore on the last day. The method of counting the number of visitors changed, therefore no comparison to the before. The observation informed increased visitors at each booth.
ama University, and Dr. Shimosaka with her research group in Doshisha University. It was a successful event to impress the activity of powder technology to citizens and young potential colleagues in the future. On the second day, students of universities in Kansai area were invited to the Guided Tour in the exhibition. 10 persons in a group were guided by a veteran of powder industry and explained the performance of each exhibited machine. 70 students participated the tour. After the tour they had luncheon with APPIE members and talked about the future of powder industry and their own.
Mr. Motoki AKAHORI is the leader of bulk handling group of APPIE. The company supplies equipments of powder handling, e.g. storing, feeding and transporting powders. Located in Numazu near Mt. Fuji, their excellence in engineering is as well renowned as the beautiful mountain.
Mr. Isao MANABE is the vice-president of APPIE and had been the chairman of the executive committee of POWTEX Osaka. The company produces and supplies all kind of metallic wire clothes, sintered wire screens and wedge wire screens. Its specialty is MAGNESTAIN® which is stainless steel with magnetic performance catching ferrous wastes in powder.
Mr. Akito YAZAWA is the director of APPIE organizing meetings in Tokyo. Both companies are sister companies to produce and supply powder processing machineries such as grinding, sieving, mixing, granulating and drying. Each company has its specialty in a long production career, and organizes it to requirement of the market in cooperation together.
Mr. Takeshi OKAWARA is the vice-president of APPIE. Hybrid drying systems for food processing, chemical processes, and environment protection are the company’s specialty. The company succeeded in decreasing energy consumption, cost reduction and suppressing CO2 emission to 45%, 40%, 45% each. Mr. Okawara stands in front of the presentation of the result.
Mr. Daisuke SUGIYAMA succeeded the presidency from his father Kanehiro, the founder. Material preparing machines for ceramic industry was the origin of the company, now it expanded the territory widely to all round of powder technology. Heavy processing of materials such as grinding, thermal treatment in special climate etc. is the excellence of the company. Customer satisfaction is the tradition of the company, for which it has high reputation.
