TPT January 2010

SteelFab 2010 reports highly successful show NEARLY all the available exhibition space was booked for SteelFab 2010, the Middle East trade show for the metal-working, metal- manufacturing and steel fabrication industry. The show, which was held from 11–14 January at Expo Centre Sharjah, received bookings from all over the world. The bookings were at 80% as TPT went to press but were set to rise further as more bookings were coming in right up to the start of SteelFab 2010. “Tube & Pipe Machinery” was a special focus segment at SteelFab 2010. Visitors from the process, oil and gas, shipbuilding, MEP, pipelines and other pipe and tube user industries greatly benefited from interaction with exhibitors in this segment, who updated them on the latest machinery, equipment and technology available for the pipe and tube industry. Exhibitors in this segment included Akyapak, DWT Babcock, Wachs, Evolution, HGG Profiling, Jammes, Magnatech, Miksan, Mueller – Opladen, Orbitalum, PHD Pipe Hanger Devices, Polysoude, Spa Welding, Sulzer Metco, Watts Specialties, Weld-tech, Wortelboer, Ylm-Ying Lin Machine, Zopf and others. Metal-cutting machine tools continued to be a key attraction, under the banner “Machine Tools Middle East”, and featured lathes, milling, drilling, grinding, EDMs, work centres, tool room machinery, high-precision machine tools, machining centres and affiliated machine tools. Brands such as Brobo, Chester, GFM, Hartford, Ileri, Kellenberger, Knuth, Metosa, Narvik, Okamoto, Okuma, Pathak, Pinacho, Quickmill, Sodick, Star, Takahashi, Tos, Weida participated in the show. “SteelFab is supported by UCIMU-Sistemi Per Produrre – the association of Italian manufacturers of machine tools, robots, automation systems and ancillary products. Participation by ICE – the Italian Institute of Foreign Trade will augment the usually large Italian participation at SteelFab,” said Mr Fasahat Ali Khan, advisor to the chairman and board of directors of Expo Centre Sharjah. “We expect the Chinese and Turkish exhibitor numbers to grow too through increased bookings from the Chinese Mechanical Engineering Society and our Turkish agent,” he said. For SteelFab 2010, apart from the regular exhibitors, enquiries have also come from several new countries and new companies that are keen to explore regional markets. Most of these companies are looking to rely less on stagnant markets and instead focus on areas that offer better opportunities.

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