Event preview
Sheet metal showcase
J
ust under 700 exhibitors, and over 645,000
ISMR previews the first joint
square feet of floor space, are a feature of
the forthcoming 8th BlechExpo and 1st BlechExpo and Schweisstec
Schweisstec trade fair duo. The exhibition is
due to take place from 13-16 June 2007 at the
trade fair, due to take place
new Exhibition Centre at Stuttgart (Germany)
in Stuttgart this June
– a change in location for BlechExpo, which
previously took place at Sinsheim.
The event, incorporating six trade fair pavilions,
will showcase sheet metal processing, as well as
joining, welding and bonding technology. Around
605 exhibitors have already registered to partici-
pate at Blechexpo, the organiser confirmed, and an
additional 73 have signed up for Schweisstec.
It is expected that the new Stuttgart Exhibition
Centre will open in early summer with Blechexpo
and Schweisstec as its first event, although the
actual inauguration is not expected to take place
until Autumn 2007 after all ten pavilions have
been completed.
Optimism in sheet metal sector
More than 25% of the registered exhibitors are
from twenty nations outside Germany, con-
firmed the organiser. Twenty-two nations were
represented at the last BlechExpo exhibition and
approximately 42% of all visitors come from
the metalworking sector, 32% from machinery,
equipment and device manufacturing and the
remaining 12.5% from the automobile and vehi-
grated, independent, information, communication
cle manufactures and their suppliers. This year’s
and procurement platform. It is designed to provide
event will include a ‘Taiwan booth’ where suppli-
visitors with the opportunity of gathering informa-
ers from Taiwan will introduce themselves.
tion covering the entire production sequence for
“Pressure to invest in new, high-performance
sheet metal processing at a single event in a time-
technologies to sharpen companies’ competitive
saving fashion i.e. starting from cutting from coil or
edge in the sheet metal sector knows no limits,”
from raw sheet metal plate, as well as forming and
the organiser stated. “Schweisstec’s technical
joining to welding and finishing the work piece or
sponsor, ZVEI, sees things in the same light,
assembly as a complete assembled unit.
and stated in a press release that the investment
“Sheet metal processing not only involves cutting
brakes which were applied in the years 2004 and
and stamping, edging and forming, but also joining
2005 had been perceptibly released no later than
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2006, and that ‘good to very good business’ can
be expected for 2007.”
P.E. Schall GmbH & Co. KG
ZVEI is a professional association for arc weld-
Gustav-Werner-Straße 6
ing equipment (the German central association for
72636 Frickenhausen-Linsenhofen, Germany
electrical engineering and the electronics industry). Website: www.blech-expo.messe.de
Schweisstec itself has been conceived as an inte- Website: www.schweisstec-messe.de
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