Huge crowd at Walton’s int’l ATS Expo

The country’s first-ever mega industrial fair titled the ‘International Advanced Components and Technology (ATS) Expo-2023’ organized by Bangladesh’s leading global electronics manufacturer Walton is witnessing a huge rush of visitors and customers.

On the first day on Thursday, the expo being held at Hall-1 of the International Convention City Bashundhara (ICCB) in the capital, witnessed huge number of visitors. On the second day on Friday, visitors started to come from the morning. The three-day long ATS expo will continue until August 12.

Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi inaugurated the ATS Expo on Thursday as the chief guest. Among others, Walton High-Tech Industries PLC’s Directors S M Mahbubul Alam and Nishat Tasnim Shuchi, Managing Director and CEO Golam Murshed, BSEC Chairman Professor Shibli Robayet-Ul Islam, Export Promotion Bureau (EPB) Vice Chairman AHM Ahsan, Federation of Bangladesh Chamber of Commerce and Industry (FBCCI) President Mahbubul Alam, Dhaka Chamber of Commerce & Industry (DCCI) President Sameer Sattar, Philippines Ambassador to Dhaka Leo Tito L. Ausan, Jr and Policy Research Institute of Bangladesh Executive Director Ahsan H. Mansur attended the event.

Walton High-Tech’s Director S M Mahbubul Alam presided over the opening ceremony and popular film actor and Walton’s Senior Executive Director Amin Khan moderated the program.

The ATS Expo is showcasing more than 50,000 international quality industrial materials, components, services and testing facilities manufactured by Walton at a total of 21 stalls in 4 categories. Most of them are used as main raw materials and components in various stages of almost all types of industrial establishments. In addition to meeting its own needs, Walton is contributing to saving billions of dollars in foreign exchange and empowering the domestic industry by providing quality industrial materials, components and testing solutions as import substitutes to other industries in the country by reducing import dependency.

In ATS Expo, products are being showcased in 4 categories – testing solutions, products, services and industrial materials & components.

Various testing facilities are being showcased at the testing solution category. The facilities include cable and wire lab, noise testing lab, LED lab, Nasdat-UTS, precision engineering lab, product quality control lab, Walton science research lab and Walton metallurgical analysis and research lab.

Under the services category, construction services like mold & die, power-press, refrigerator and SMT (Surface Mounting Technology) etc are being displayed. Moreover fridge, TV, AC, fastener, PCB, home and kitchen appliances, chemical, masterbatches, mold & die, IT products etc. are being displayed in the product category.

Refrigerator components, air conditioner components, television components, home appliance components, electrical appliance components, elevator/lift components, fasteners, mold & die and casting components are being showcased in the industrial materials and components category. These components and materials are being used in agro, automobiles, cement, ceramics, chemical, cosmetics, digital, electric and electronics, pharmaceuticals, glass, heavy-vehicles and air conditioning, IoT, IT, leather, light engineering, plastic, printing and publications, garments, wholesale and trading businesses etc.

The ATS Expo aims to discover the world of possibilities by showcasing Walton’s homemade impressive repertoire of machining, mold and die, industrial raw materials, components, testing lab and other industrial services to domestic and international industrialists and visitors.

Walton is exporting ‘Made in Bangladesh’ labelled products to over 40 countries including countries in Asia, Europe, America and Africa.

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