The upcoming Valve World Asia Conference, which will be held in Shanghai on 17 and 18 October 2007, has received a good number of papers proposals on control valves. Approximately 20 Steering Committee members from all over the world came to Shanghai (on 14 March) for a meeting to evaluate all the paper proposals and to decide upon the conference and workshop programme. The outcome was that we selected 20 presentations for 5 parallel sessions. These sessions will cover v not only control valves but also fugitive emission/sealing, design/applications, maintenance/reliability and last but certainly not least casting. In addition a number of end-users such as Sinopec, Shell, Bayer, Dow Chemical and ExxonMobil have committed themselves to do plenary presentations on end-user experiences with different types of valves in different fields of applications. Additionally, a workshop on Procurement and Supply Chain Integrity will be part of the programme. The Exhibition, which will be organised in parallel, is already fully booked. The organisers expect that the two-day event, which will be hosted at the Shanghai International Convention Center at Pudong, near to the famous Pearl Tower, will attract about 5000 visitors. So, overall it promises to become an interesting conference & expo which, as usual, will also feature some networking events including a welcome cocktail reception, a conference dinner and (for the first time now also in Shanghai) a partner programme.
