Asia's largest aluminium exhibition to open in Shanghai

BEIJING, May 22 -- Asia's largest aluminium exhibition, Aluminium

China 2009, will open on June 30 at the Shanghai New International Expo Centre.

The exhibition, which runs until July 2, is expected to draw 10,000

industry buyers and more than 300 aluminium companies from 30 countries.

Breakthroughs were expected in both the size of the exhibition and the

number of exhibitors and visitors, said Liu Guoliang, vice president of the

event's sponsor, Reed Exhibitions China.

China produced 1.36 million tonnes of aluminium products in March 2009. The

output in the first quarter reached 3.44 million tonnes, down 3.5 percent year

on year, according to the National Bureau of Statistics.