Arablab’s 25th Anniversary Show Was the Biggest and Most Successful Yet.

There can be no better place to hold an event concerned with an industry of the future than in Dubai, the city of the future. >From a small entrepot trading port in the mid-twentieth century, Dubai has developed into the prime hub of market stretching from western Europe to China, central Asia to Africa, and incorporating the dynamic economies of the Middle East and the Indian sub-continent.

ARABLAB provides a unique forum for industry leaders involved in petroleum and environmental research and analysis, laboratory automation, and data process management. The 2008 event, held from 10 – 13 February, attracted more than 750 of the industry’s leading companies from around the globe, with national pavilions from Austria, China, France, Germany, Korea, Spain, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. The exhibition focused on six sectors – laboratory technology, biotechnology, environmental sciences, robotics and automation, analytical instrumentation, and measurement and testing – whilst the packed seminar programme offered invaluable opportunities to gain information about the latest developments.

More national groups than ever before participated in ARABLAB 2008, with exhibitors reporting that this year’s event was the most successful yet, confirming the show’s appeal to buyers and specifiers not only from the Middle East, but also the increasingly important markets of the Indian sub-continent, Africa, China and central and south-east Asia.

ARABLAB 2009, to be held from 10 – 13 January, will be located in halls 5, 6, 7, 8 and the adjoining Pavilion at Dubai International Exhibition Centre, together offering approximately 35% more space than this year – an important consideration since the 2008 show was oversubscribed, with some potential exhibitors unable to obtain space.