Gateway to Japan's vast pharmaceutical marketplace, the CPhI Japan exhibition 2005 & International Contract Services Expo (ICSE) 2005, held last year at Tokyo Big Sight Exhibition Center from 20-22 April 2005 turned out to be a huge success.
Featuring more than 450 exhibiting companies and over 12,000 visitors, the last year's edition could attract large number of potential Japanese business partners and paved way for forging numerous outsourcing alliances.
Out of the total 450 exhibitors from 28 countries and regions 168 were from Japan and 282 from overseas. The country/ region wise break-up is: Japan (168), Austria(1), Belgium(1), Canada(4), China(109), Czech Republic(2), Denmark(1), France(9), Germany(18), Hong Kong(5), Hungary(1), India(20), Ireland(1), Israel(2), Italy(13), Korea(13), Malaysia (1), New Zealand (1), Portugal(1), Russia(1), Singapore(3), Slovak (1), Spain (1), Sweden(1), Switzerland(6), Taiwan(6), The Netherlands(7), UK(25) and USA(25).
Exhibitors profile includes experts from analytical services, associations, bio-pharmaceutical contract services, biotrails, blending, chemical synthesis/analysis, cleaning equipment, clinical research (Field), clinical trials phase I to IV, computer software, consulting services, contract manufacturing, contract research, custom manufacturing, data management, data services, drug discovery, drug metabolism, E-business, filling, formulation development, hygiene testing, immunochemistry, in-patient clinical research, logistics and distribution, lyophilisation, marketing services, medical devices, packaging, patient safety monitoring, pharmacodynamics, pharmacoeconomics, pharmacogenetics, pharmacokinetics, pharmacology, photobiology testing, pre clinical, product characterization, production equipment, project management, publisher, quality control, recruitment / human resources, regulatory affairs, statistical analysis, synthetic organic chemistry and toxicology.