TPi January 2010

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12-16 April 2010

The world’s largest exhibition for the tube and pipe industries

A preview of Tube 2010 could be composed exclusively of confident assertions. The first-ranking show in the tube and pipe industry will attract leading exhibitors — over a thousand of them — from around the globe. On display in the spacious halls of Messe Düsseldorf will be the most advanced machinery and equipment anywhere for every tube-related purpose, large and small. More than 70,000 visitors will arrive in Düsseldorf with high expectations, which will be met and exceeded. They will leave Düsseldorf primed as never before to profit from the opportunities that lie ahead for their sector. By any objective criteria that might be applied, time at Tube 2010 will be time well spent. But it could also be confidently declared that other expectations — just as important, if less easily quantified — will be abundantly fulfilled by Tube 2010. Call these the imponderables. They include the exhilaration of exchanging information with like-minded professionals; the gratification that comes of testing a problem against a host of cutting- edge solutions until an answer — the answer — is found; the awareness of being on the frontier of knowledge of a vital industry. These, too, are Tube. Ask anyone who has attended a previous edition of the show. You will find this visitor in the tens of thousands in the Rhineland in April — back at Düsseldorf for the refresher course. They wouldn’t miss it for the world.