The 25th CBD Fair (Guangzhou) took place from 8 to 11 July 2023 at the Canton Fair Complex and PWTC Expo, covering 400,000 sqm with close to 2,000 exhibitors from 25 provinces and regions, and 255,078 qualified trade visitors over four days. The fair opened the new Phase IV halls of the Canton Fair Complex for the first time and grouped the show into five themes — customisation, systems, smart home, design and materials & craftsmanship — plus the first Guangzhou Sanitary Ware Expo. For JESH DRILL this was the first time our drilling machines stood inside a custom-home hall rather than only in the machinery section of a furniture production fair.
Our booth was 9.1-05, with the MSK100 series gantry-type CNC multi-row drilling machines as the main exhibit. Most visitors were equipment managers from wardrobe, cabinet, door and panel factories, and their questions came down to three things: how many faces one clamping can cover, how long a changeover to a different cabinet takes, and how the drill rows connect to edge-banding and cutting lines. We explained with real panels against their hole drawings, which was far more convincing than a catalogue.
The audience here differs from a furniture machinery fair: there the visitors sell machines, here they use them. They arrive with store orders and delivery deadlines, and they care about throughput, stability and changeover speed. Those four days led us to adjust the demo machine configuration for the South China region, and the six-sided plus multi-row combination became our standard recommendation.
