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wiredInUSA - May 2014
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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 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
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
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