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Praise as numbers rise at Düsseldorf Meeting rooms booked, pens poised, a huge number of visitors for exhibitors to meet and explore opportunities with – this was wire and Tube 2014 in Düsseldorf. There was a buzz around the halls at the Fairgrounds – and that reached the stands and visitors alike as more than 72,000 people flooded into the halls for the five-day extravaganza.

the wire exhibition, and occupied approximately 58,500m 2 of space – a two per cent increase compared with the square meter figures from 2012. The offerings in exhibition halls 9 to 12 and 15 to 17 ranged from machines and equipment for wire production and processing to tools and auxiliary materials for process engineering to materials and specialty wires. Innovations from the areas of cable, measurement and control technology, as well as test engineering, were presented. Special fields such as logistics, conveying systems and packaging rounded off the offerings. The mesh welding machinery domain was presented combined under one roof for the first time – roughly 20 companies showing their products in hall 16. Current forming technologies were presented in hall 15, while the latest spring-making methods were featured in parts of hall 16. All applications involving wire, cable and fiberglass machines, wire and cable production, as well as trade, were located in halls 9 to 12, 16 and 17. The percentage of international trade fair guests is traditionally high with 66 per cent of the wire visitors traveling from abroad, representing a total of 70 countries. The majority of all wire visitors came from the classic visiting nations of India, the USA, France, Italy, UK, Switzerland, Belgium, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, the Netherlands and Japan. The visitors came primarily from

“The trade fairs took place at exactly the right time. Now several companies are planning on investing in order to position themselves for continued competition,” explained Joachim Schäfer, managing director accountable for the fairs at Messe Düsseldorf. “Once again, wire and Tube recorded exhibitor growth as well as a significant increase in booked exhibition space,” he added. Visitors came to learn about the latest machines, equipment andproducts for the wire, cable and tube processing industries, and meet up with current and prospective suppliers and equipment manufacturers. The steel and non-ferrous metal industry has long been considered to be a reliable early indicator for all other industries. The entire economy benefits when this market is strong – and with more than 108,000m 2 of net exhibition space booked, around 98 per cent of exhibitors gave top marks for the way the two trade fairs went. More than 1,300 companies from 54 countries journeyed to Düsseldorf for

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