China Elevator Association Officially Announced to Organize Chinese Delegation to Participate in the 2026 São Paulo International Elevator Exhibition in Brazil
The São Paulo International Elevator Exhibition in Brazil is the largest and most influential professional exhibition for the elevator industry in South America. It is held every two years and is the core channel for elevator procurement, technical exchange and agency cooperation in South American countries such as Brazil, Argentina, Chile and Peru. With the theme of "Innovation · Safety · Sustainability · Empowering Vertical Urban Travel in South America", the 2026 exhibition is expected to break through 12,000 square meters of exhibition scale, and will attract more than 160 exhibitors from more than 20 countries and regions around the world, with more than 8,000 professional visitors, more than 90% of whom are housing and construction departments, real estate developers, engineering contractors, elevator agents and traders from South American countries such as Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Peru and Colombia. This Chinese delegation is uniformly organized by the China Elevator Association. The core planning includes: first, setting up an exclusive themed exhibition area for China's elevator industry, divided into six exhibition sections: passenger elevators, goods elevators, escalators, home lifts, core components, and old elevator transformation, comprehensively displaying the whole industrial chain supply capacity of China's elevator industry, and focusing on adapting to the elevator procurement demand of urbanization construction, commercial complexes, residential projects and old building transformation in the South American market; second, holding the China-South America Elevator Industry Cooperation and Development Forum during the same period, inviting the Ministry of Housing and Construction of Brazil, the Brazil Elevator Association, industry institutions and large infrastructure enterprises from various South American countries to participate, interpreting the access policy, standard requirements, INMETRO certification system and market opportunities of the South American elevator market, and promoting the mutual recognition and cooperation between Chinese elevator standards and South American national standards; third, organizing accurate one-to-one trade matching meetings to provide exclusive matching services for Chinese exhibitors and purchasers, agents and engineering contractors in South America, focusing on the elevator procurement and transformation needs in Brazil's "National Infrastructure Development Plan" and Argentina's urban renewal plan; fourth, setting up a special area for the release of Chinese elevator standards and technical achievements, focusing on releasing the latest national standards, international standards and technological innovation achievements of China's elevator industry, focusing on promoting high-reliability, wide voltage adaptive, easy-to-maintain elevator products adapted to the high temperature, high humidity and unstable power grid environment in South America, and enhancing the brand influence of China's elevator industry in the South American market; fifth, supporting the South American elevator market inspection activities. After the exhibition, Chinese enterprises will be organized to carry out market inspection and industry docking in São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and Buenos Aires, Argentina, to deepen the whole industrial chain cooperation between China and the South American elevator market. Brazil is the largest elevator market in South America and the largest export market for Chinese elevator products in South America. In 2024, China's export volume of elevators and components to Brazil increased by 22.7% year-on-year. This participation will further expand the share of Chinese elevator products in the South American market and promote the in-depth integration of China's elevator industry with the South American infrastructure market.