博洛尼亚展会终于落幕。现在佛山、香港、欧洲或其他地方的各位，接下来几天的假期让我们好好充电。

    展会很棒，我们看到很多有意思的新东西，这些都将在10月10日的活动与大家分享。

    我尚未拿到展会的官方数字，但从大家的交流中听到，仿佛观众、展位、参展国家都更多了，如果没有大的增加也至少没有减少，总之展会每年能够报告更高的数字。

    这些数据对我们都很重要，因为它们反映了国际陶瓷市场的真实状况，如果数字是积极的，那起码意味着好事。

    期间一个大新闻是Ferro集团拥有了Vetriceramic。这个对世界各地都很重要的新闻，目前对中国似乎并无影响，但是短期内或许会见到两者的关联。Vertri约在一年前开始在中国运营，虽然目前还没有展开拳脚。

    Ferro是一个纵横世界市场包括中国的大集团，而Vertri是一个很小的公司，但是他们为意大利和美国市场提供非常好的、独特的原材料和墨水。我想这个变化会为行业带来益处。

    这段日子以及接下来的几周，陆陆续续有媒体、个人以及企业发布了不少关于意大利展会的相关报告、图片、文章和评论。

    今年的展会似乎对中国人拍照采取了宽松的态度。当然还有一些个别的展位不允许亚洲外表的参观者拍照和记录。

    另一方面，我知道很多人都在关注我们的博洛尼亚趋势报告和活动，他们问了很多问题，例如你们是怎么完成报告的，为什么你们能做出如此准确的预测呢，为什么你们的报告这么的完善，为什么你们要与媒体和其他企业分享这些信息呢……他们还问到，你们不会害怕分享这份报告会让你们失去竞争优势吗？

    所有这些答案可以在活动当天找到！

    我很高兴因为展会所见证实了我们9月初在淄博论坛以及活动新闻发布会的预测都100%命中，我相信我们能做到最好，展示出高品质的产品、原料、技术、设计等各类信息和图片。我们整个团队在里米尼机械展、博洛尼亚建材展以及萨索罗几家顶尖的设计公司拍摄了超过10000张照片！

    同时我们收集了上百本图册，以及达成了一些产品研发设计项目的采购，在未来，这些新产品将在美国、墨西哥和中国市场投入开发。

    展会上，我们还预备了一些只在当天才揭晓的惊喜，届时与你们分享。

    最后，希望大家度过愉快的假期，下周与你活动见！（翻译：耿海波）

    以下为原文：

    CERSAIE is finally over!?Now a few days off to recharge the batteries.?In Foshan, Hong Kong, Europe or anywhere you are!

    The show was good, we saw a lot of interesting things, great new proposals and many other things?that we will share with you during the Grand Event on October 10.

    I do not have yet the final official numbers?of the show?but it seemed according to what I heard that there were more visitors, more exhibitors, more countries that participated and so on; maybe not much more but at least not less. Somehow CERSAIE manages to report higher numbers every year.

    These numbers are important to all of us because somehow they represent the real status of our ceramic industry throughout the world, and if these numbers are positive then they only mean good things to come.

    One of the big news of the event was the acquisition of Vetriceramic by the Ferro Group. This news may not be very important to China but it is for the rest of the world and it may and it will be important to China in the short term.?Vetri?just started their operation in China a little over a year ago and did not have a big presence yet in the Chinese Ceramic market.

    Ferro is a big group with presence all over the world including China but Vetri?was a much smaller company but with great and important presence in Italy & USA with more specialty?things,?raw materials and inks. I think by this move our Industry will only get better.

    Expect in the next few days or couple of weeks many reports, pictures, comments, articles of the fair in Italy?from individuals, newspapers, companies, etc. 

    This year it seemed that at the show had a more “Relaxed Attitude” towards the Chinese taking pictures. Nevertheless we saw in a few places still many booths of companies not allowing taking pictures to any Asian looking visitors.

    On another note I know that there is still a lot of people asking and wondering about?our report and many people asking questions of how we do it, how can we so precise predicting de trends, why our report is better, why we share all these information with all the media and all the companies that will attend the event on October 10. They?also say: Don’t you lose competitive advantage by sharing this report?

    All of these questions will be answered at the event!

    I also told our people in Foshan that I was very glad that I shared with the Zibo Ceramic Industry at their event just a few weeks back and at the Press Conference at CCIH our predictions even though they were afraid of me sharing this information and even worse being potentially wrong.

    I am so glad because we proved our point and were 100% right and this makes our event more relevant because we are believable and we will do it right, we will show great things, information, pictures, technology, raw materials, designs, etc.

    We took as a group a little over 10,000 pictures in Rimini TECHNARGILLA ,?Bologna CERSAIE and at some of the Top Design Studios in Sassuolo.

    We also took with us hundreds of catalogs and bought a few designs for our future product developments in USA, Mexico and of course China.

    At the event we will have other surprises for ready you to see that I am not going to share with you this time and will only be seen at the event on October 10.

    I hope to see you all there next week…… until then keep enjoying your holidays.