Eurasia Glass Fair opens at the Tuyap Fair and Congress Center in Istanbul on the twenty first of November and runs for four days. The fair covers glass processing machinery, flat and processed glass, glass chemicals, insulation and paints, and is co located with the Eurasia window and door edition at the same venue across the same dates.
The organiser reports that the previous edition drew around seven hundred exhibitors from twenty six countries and 66,632 visitors from one hundred and sixty five countries. The buyer base skews toward construction and facade work, with strong attendance from the Caucasus, the Balkans, the Middle East, Central Asia and North Africa. The organiser states no edition number for this year, so none is printed here.
Istanbul's position in the processed glass trade rests on geography and on capacity. Turkish float and processing capacity serves a band of markets that are building quickly and that import rather than manufacture, and the city sits inside a short logistics radius of most of them. A fair that pairs the machinery suppliers with the processors who buy them is consequently a machinery sales event as much as a glass one.
The co location with the window and door fair is the commercially significant detail. Flat glass reaches a building as part of a glazed unit, and the specifier making that decision is buying the frame, the coating and the glass together. Running both fairs in the same halls lets a facade buyer complete a specification in one visit, which is why the two shows report their attendance figures jointly.
