Route des lasers, The place to be

Photonics business trip to China

3rd May, 2010, International actions.

From 15th to 19th March, 2010

Lasers, photonics and their applications are a major field in the Bordeaux region. For more than a year, Bordeaux Route des Lasers, the photonics competitiveness cluster in Aquitaine, has set its sights on China. That is why key players of the Route des Lasers cluster decided to take part in a business trip to China to promote their expertise and products.

Bordeaux Route des Lasers at Laser World of Photonics China

This year LASER World of PHOTONICS CHINA confirmed its role as one the most important platforms for laser and optics technology in the Popular Republic of China. The record numbers also demonstrated that the event is now on track to become the leading laser and photonics show in the whole of Asia.
A French Pavilion coordinated by Ubifrance, the French Trade Commission, enabled the following companies from the Aquitaine Region (Amplitude Systèmes, Cordouan Technologies and Imagine Optics) to present their innovative products to more than 25,000 visitors. They also used this opportunity to work with their distributors in China, meet new partners and old friends. Alongside with the companies, representatives from the Route des laser cluster promoted the strengths and expertise in optics and laser in the Aquitaine Region.
Participants attended a conference given by Prof. Zhang Wei, Vice director of the Shanghai Institute of Laser Technology entitled ?Laser, Optics and Related Application and Development in China?. During his talk, he gave key information and provided advice to the French companies on how to enter the Chinese photonics market.

Guangzhou and Wuhan

Representatives of the French photonics industry also spent one day in Wuhan in Hubei Province, a city known as one of the major laser industry bases in China, where the Aquitaine Region has opened a local business representation and support office in charge of helping Aquitaine companies to improve their export strategies and to promote Aquitaine skills and know-how.
Visits of the Chinese leaders - Chutian Laser, HG Laser, Lype Laser Solution, Gemming Laser, Hua Laser, Sunic and Zhongtai, as well as a Sino-French workshop on Photonics Technologies were organised in collaboration with the National Engineering Research Center for Laser Processing and the Wuhan Laser Association of Optics Valley of China. During the workshop, the companies presented their products in front of 40 photonics professionals (academics and industrials) and free discussions followed.
Moreover companies from the Bordeaux Route des Lasers cluster were given the opportunity to meet potential business partners in Guangzhou through a series of personalized B to B meetings organised by the French Trade Commission in Guangzhou.

Contact : Julia Petit

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