The 8th Shanghai International Stainless steel Exposition, the largest stainless steel exposition in Asia, running every two years, will be held on Sept. 4-6, 2013 at Shanghai New International Expo Centre, China. China International Tube & Pipe Expo 2013 will be held over the same period.

China stainless steel crude steel production reached 16 million tons in 2012; apparent consumption reached nearly 12.88 million tons.

China stainless steel industry in the past 10 years，has made remarkable achievements in development, has gone from dependence stainless steel imports to domestic production and demand balance and net exports of basic process, and become an important global stainless steel production base and market .

The same as other countries and regions in the world, China stainless steel industry also faces a series of important issues such as technological innovation, product development, quality improvement, concentration increase, increase of application field, strengthening international exchange.

In recent years, China makes significant progress development of new stainless steel products. The new product lines of Super Austenitic, super ferrite and hyper duplex stainless steels, come into being.

Ampcoloy also has some new break, Domestic stainless steel equipment manufacturing industry also developing rapidly. At the same time, the ability of China stainless steel industry is enhanced to satisfy the demand of domestic transportation industry, architectural structure, energy environmental protection, oil and petrochemical industry and Furniture Appliances industry etc,.

Since its foundation in 1999, STEXPO had been succeeding held for seven-time, and get more business of Stainless steel all over the world. TISCO, Baosteel, JISCO, Dongbei Special Steel, Outokumpu, Jiangsu daming and Zhenshi group are also show in a large area. In recent decade, the number of exhibitors, exhibiting area and visitors saw continuous growth. And also with the expanding of scale, it has development into a significant Exposition for Stainless steel Industry all over the world at present.