Woodworking tecnology in Myanmar. The first edition of Burmawood

It was held from December 21 to 24 in Yangon, Myanmar, the first edition of Burmawood, an event dedicated to wood technology. The event was held in a hall of about two thousand square meters which, besides the section on woodworking, hosted other concurrent exhibitions dedicated to technologies for the processing of metals and plastics.
The exhibitors were about one hundred, mostly Taiwanese and Chinese. No local exhibitors were present. As of this moment, no official data about the number of visitors have reached us, but the performance was satisfactory from the quantitative point of view. Almost all of the visitors were local, with a high percentage coming from the capital Yangon, at the moment the only industrial center of the country.
As regards to the exhibited machiney level, the technological offer was quite limited, with a clear prevalence of traditional Chinese and Taiwanese machines.
The network of local dealers is almost non-existent. There are no figures able to distribute the machines within the context of European Burmese.