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"Moulding Expo" gains more visitors and more internationality / Resonance slightly below expectations / Plastics technology is an important user industry
 Plastics technology exhibitors were strongly represented at “Moulding Expo 2017” (Photo: Landesmesse Stuttgart) |
The second “Moulding Expo – International Trade Fair for Tool, Pattern and Mould Making” (www.moulding-expo.de) at Stuttgart exhibition centre attracted 760 exhibitors and around 15,000 visitors from 52 countries. The trade fair, held from 30 May - 2 June, attracted 15% international visitors compared to 11% at the first edition of Moulding Expo in May 2015 – see Plasteurope.com of 08.12.2015.
At the end of the four-day event, the response remained somewhat below the expected 16,000 - 20,000 visitors, but the organiser Landesmesse Stuttgart (Stuttgart / Germany; www.messe-stuttgart.de) hopes to make Moulding Expo a leading European trade fair for tool making and mould construction. In 2015, the first edition of this trade fair attracted 619 exhibitors and 14,000 visitors were part of the first edition. Since then, the organisers obtained new ideas and gained organisational support from several industry organizations – see Plasteurope.com of 14.03.2017. The third “Moulding Expo” will be held between May / June 2019 at Stuttgart.
According to the organisers, the trade fair attracted visitors from several industries: automotive and automotive supplier industries (42%), followed by tool and mould makers (28%), the mechanical engineering and plant construction sector (23%), plastics processors (16%), model and prototype constructors (11%) plus other user industries. By nationality, the largest stakeholder groups came from Austria (16%), and was then followed by Switzerland (12%), Italy (10%), Turkey (8%), the Czech Republic (6%) and France and Portugal (5% each).
The range of exhibits included considerably more generative production than two years ago; otherwise, the fair’s focal points were the same as last time around. Especially, plastics processing toolmakers and tool and mould constructors for the plastics and rubber industries were very well represented at the event this year.
On the first two days, the halls dedicated to cutting and chipping production were much less frequented than more application-oriented halls such as mould constructors and their component suppliers, standard component and hot runner technologies or software suppliers and service providers. Exhibits in connection with plastics technology can, therefore, be considered important visitor magnets.
It is no big surprise, then, that a sizeable number of other trade fair organisers, typical plastics fair exhibitors and sales managers of plastics machinery and equipment manufacturers inspected the goings-on and several visitors.
At the end of the four-day event, the response remained somewhat below the expected 16,000 - 20,000 visitors, but the organiser Landesmesse Stuttgart (Stuttgart / Germany; www.messe-stuttgart.de) hopes to make Moulding Expo a leading European trade fair for tool making and mould construction. In 2015, the first edition of this trade fair attracted 619 exhibitors and 14,000 visitors were part of the first edition. Since then, the organisers obtained new ideas and gained organisational support from several industry organizations – see Plasteurope.com of 14.03.2017. The third “Moulding Expo” will be held between May / June 2019 at Stuttgart.
According to the organisers, the trade fair attracted visitors from several industries: automotive and automotive supplier industries (42%), followed by tool and mould makers (28%), the mechanical engineering and plant construction sector (23%), plastics processors (16%), model and prototype constructors (11%) plus other user industries. By nationality, the largest stakeholder groups came from Austria (16%), and was then followed by Switzerland (12%), Italy (10%), Turkey (8%), the Czech Republic (6%) and France and Portugal (5% each).
The range of exhibits included considerably more generative production than two years ago; otherwise, the fair’s focal points were the same as last time around. Especially, plastics processing toolmakers and tool and mould constructors for the plastics and rubber industries were very well represented at the event this year.
On the first two days, the halls dedicated to cutting and chipping production were much less frequented than more application-oriented halls such as mould constructors and their component suppliers, standard component and hot runner technologies or software suppliers and service providers. Exhibits in connection with plastics technology can, therefore, be considered important visitor magnets.
It is no big surprise, then, that a sizeable number of other trade fair organisers, typical plastics fair exhibitors and sales managers of plastics machinery and equipment manufacturers inspected the goings-on and several visitors.
26.06.2017 Plasteurope.com [237170-0]
Published on 26.06.2017
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