On June 17, 2025, the much-anticipated 15th Huawang Shanghai Professional Fastener Exhibition (FES 2025) grandly kicked off at the National Exhibition and Convention Center (Shanghai). Hosted by Shanghai Sunsou Exhibition Co., Ltd., this flagship industry event gathered professional visitors from across the globe to witness new industry trends and explore win-win cooperation opportunities for the fastener sector.
Setting a historic new milestone, the 2025 edition spanned a total exhibition area of 75,000 square meters and assembled more than 1,200 outstanding domestic and overseas exhibitors. With this unprecedented scale, Fastener Expo Shanghai has officially surpassed other renowned platforms to rankfirst among the world’s three major professional fastener exhibitions, demonstrating the rising global influence and vigorous market vitality of China’s fastener industry.
The venue welcomed booming crowds and vibrant business exchanges. Halls 1.1H and 2.1H served as brand pavilions, gathering leading enterprises and prestigious manufacturers to showcase cutting-edge innovations and flagship products in the fastener field. Over one hundred industry benchmark enterprises made a stunning appearance, including Xingtai Mindu Fastener Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Zhejiang Dongming Stainless Steel Products Co., Ltd., Wenzhou Fengding Fastener Technology Co., Ltd., Jiangsu Yanzhan Metal Products Co., Ltd., Zhejiang Tiankai Industrial Co., Ltd., Wuxi Anshida Hardware & Electromechanical Co., Ltd., Shanghai Würth Electronic Technology Co., Ltd., Anhui Leit Link New Material Co., Ltd., Jingjiang Hengfeng Fastener Manufacturing Co., Ltd., and Zhejiang Youwei Metal Products Co., Ltd. Their core products and systematic solutions fully displayed the solid strength and robust development momentum of China’s fastener manufacturing industry.
The dedicated exhibition zones for manufacturing equipment, steel wires and consumables featured numerous outstanding equipment suppliers such as Suzhou Yuefei Precision Machinery Co., Ltd., Dongguan Yingxing Automation Equipment Co., Ltd., Zhejiang Jinggu Intelligent Equipment Co., Ltd., Zhejiang Youxin Machinery Industrial Co., Ltd., Dongguan Ruike Precision Instrument Co., Ltd., Dongguan Ansheng Hardware Products Co., Ltd., Yueyi Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd., and Hebei Chaoyue Precision Manufacturing Co., Ltd. The exhibits covered the entire industrial chain, including intelligent cold heading machines, multi-station integrated automated production lines, precision testing instruments, high-end molds, special steel wires and surface treatment consumables. The exhibition presented both mature, market-proven equipment and innovative technical solutions targeting prevalent industry pain points, offering abundant resources for visitors and driving continuous technological upgrading across the sector.
The expo also specially set up exhibition areas for industrial clusters and industry associations, attracting group participations from major fastener industrial bases. Industry organizations including Suzhou Fastener Industry Association, Haiyan Fastener Chamber of Commerce, Jiashan Hardware & Fastener Industry Association, Yongnian Standard Parts Import and Export Chamber of Commerce, Suzhou Fastener Chamber of Commerce, and Dai’an Fastener Manufacturers Strategic Alliance organized local backbone enterprises to participate collectively. By showcasing regional featured products and cluster advantages, these delegations facilitated cross-regional industrial exchanges and demonstrated the sound clustered development ecosystem and synergistic capabilities of China’s fastener industry.
A series of high-value supporting activities enriched the connotation of the exhibition and maximized participation value. The 2025 19th Edition of Chinese Regional Screw Industry Directory, known as the “industry encyclopedia”, held its official launch and signing ceremony on-site, providing authoritative reference materials for industry practitioners. The 2025 FES International Buyer One-on-One Matching Session successfully built an efficient cooperation bridge between domestic suppliers and high-quality overseas purchasers. In addition, the 4th National Fastener Anti-loosening Technology Competition Award Ceremony was grandly held to recognize outstanding enterprises and innovative products. The subsequent 4th Fastener Anti-loosening Technology Forum gathered industry experts and scholars to conduct in-depth discussions on cutting-edge anti-loosening technologies, updated testing standards and practical application cases, building a vital platform for industry technological innovation and academic exchange.
The successful hosting of FES 2025 has not only built a high-quality global platform for fastener exhibition, communication and procurement, but also fully demonstrated the remarkable progress of China’s fastener industry in industrial scale, technological innovation, quality improvement and brand building. It has injected strong confidence and impetus into the recovery and high-quality development of the global fastener industry in the post-pandemic era.