Glasstech Asia and Fenestration Asia run as a single combined exhibition at MITEC in Kuala Lumpur, opening on the tenth of November for three days. The event is organised by MMI Asia, with BAU as powering partner and the Singapore Glass Association also among the partners.
The organiser expects more than four thousand trade visitors and more than two hundred exhibitors, with a conference track covering facade performance and digital construction. The audience is glass processors, facade consultants, architects and contractors. The exhibition is co located with International Construction Week and BuildXpo Malaysia, which the venue calendar lists on the same three days.
Southeast Asian facade specification has been pulled in two directions over the past decade. Thermal performance requirements have tightened as energy codes have been revised, while the commercial pressure in tall residential and office construction has continued to favour maximum glazed area. Reconciling those is a glass and coating problem before it is an architectural one, which is why a processing and machinery fair draws consultants as well as fabricators.
Holding the show alongside a general construction week changes who walks the floor. A facade fair on its own attracts the specialists who already know what they are specifying; attaching it to a contractor focused event brings in the main contractors and developers who make the cost decision that constrains the specification. For exhibitors selling processing capacity rather than finished units, that second audience is the one that determines order volume.
