{"id":2949,"date":"2024-03-19T16:52:53","date_gmt":"2024-03-19T08:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/conshongkong.esteri.it\/news\/dal_consolato\/2024\/03\/italia-hong-kong-38-aziende-italiane-presenti-allasia-pacific-leather-fair\/"},"modified":"2024-03-21T19:19:39","modified_gmt":"2024-03-21T11:19:39","slug":"italia-hong-kong-38-aziende-italiane-presenti-allasia-pacific-leather-fair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/conshongkong.esteri.it\/en\/news\/dal_consolato\/2024\/03\/italia-hong-kong-38-aziende-italiane-presenti-allasia-pacific-leather-fair\/","title":{"rendered":"ITALY &#8211; HONG KONG: 38 ITALIAN COMPANIES PARTICIPATE IN THE ASIA PACIFIC LEATHER FAIR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 40th edition of the <strong>ASIA PACIFIC LEATHER FAIR (APLF<\/strong>), Asia&#8217;s leading trade fair for the leather processing machinery sector (700 exhibitors from 40 countries) opened today in Hong Kong. The <strong>APLF<\/strong> returns to Hong Kong after an absence of 4 years due to the pandemic, consolidating itself as a reference event that attracts visitors from all over China and South-East Asia. Italy participates in the fair with a national pavilion curated by ICE, in collaboration with ASSOMAC, gathering 38 companies from Italy. In order to give prominence to the Italian presence at the fair, all participating Italian companies&#8217; profiles are displayed on the sampleroom platform, a B2B social networking marketplace created by the Fair Authority, which will remain active for a year. Despite the progressive reduction over the years in manufacturing activity in this sector, Hong Kong remains a destination of great interest for Italian producers of machinery and technology for the leather industry, occupying 10th place in the list of outlet markets: in 2023, while total imports in the sector slowed down for the second year in a row, Italy maintained its leadership position among supplier countries, with sales of USD 1 million (+ 35% on the previous year) and a share of 61% of total imports.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 40th edition of the ASIA PACIFIC LEATHER FAIR (APLF), Asia&#8217;s leading trade fair for the leather processing machinery sector (700 exhibitors from 40 countries) opened today in Hong Kong. The APLF returns to Hong Kong after an absence of 4 years due to the pandemic, consolidating itself as a reference event that attracts visitors [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2964,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/conshongkong.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/conshongkong.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/conshongkong.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conshongkong.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conshongkong.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2949"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/conshongkong.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2966,"href":"https:\/\/conshongkong.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2949\/revisions\/2966"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conshongkong.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/conshongkong.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conshongkong.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}