HCM CITY (VNS) — Three exhibitions related to the support industry, Metalex Vietnam, Vietnam Electronics Assembly and the Business Alliance for Support Industry in HCM City, will be held at a single venue in HCM City in October, the organisers announced yesterday in HCM City.

Organised by the Japan External Trade Organisation (JETRO) in HCM City and the HCM City Investment and Trade Promotion Centre, "The Business Alliance for Support Industry in HCM City" will enable local parts manufacturers to contact Japanese buyers of parts and components.

Two other exhibitions, Metalex Vietnam, an international exhibition on machine tools and metalworking solution for production upgrade, and Vietnam Electronics Assembly, an international machinery expo for electronic parts and components manufacturing, will be hosted by Thailand's Reed Tradex Co.

Metalex Vietnam, the biggest of its kind in the country, will open doors for Vietnamese industry to enhance product quality and productivity, as well as improve production lines with new machine tools, metalworking technologies, and solutions provided by 500 brands from 25 countries.

To be organised at the Saigon Exhibition and Convention Centre from October 8-10, the three expos will help boost the development of Viet Nam's support industries, said Duangdej Yuaikwarmdee, deputy managing director and general manager of Reed Tradex Co, Ltd in Viet Nam. — VNS