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Industry News
12 May 2012
Tube Düsseldorf reports
excellent business and more
exhibitors than ever
TUBE Düsseldorf closed its doors recently
after achieving a new exhibitor record.
During the five trade fair days, around
2,500 companies from all corners of the
globe provided information on the latest
machines, plants and products from the
tube processing industries and wire and
cable industry.
Exhibitors reported excellent interest in
purchasing and that many deals were made
and new, interesting business contacts were
acquired, and there was high praise for the
visitor quality.
“For us as trade fair organisers, the
somewhat euphoric mood in the exhibition
halls, the orders made here and the
expectation of good post-fair business are
important indicators that we are right with
the trade fair date and the product range,”
Joachim Schäfer, managing director,
Messe Düsseldorf GmbH, said.
“Companies invest heavily in Düsseldorf
in order to remain present among the
international competition,” adds Friedrich-
Georg Kehrer, director of Tube 2012. “Here,
the companies meet qualified business
partners from all over the world, and many
new contacts are made as well,” he said.
A total display area of more than
106,000m2 was booked. This is a new
record even compared to the well attended
previous events in the years 2010 and
2008.
All in all, 73,500 trade visitors from 111
countries visited the exhibition centre on
the River Rhine over the five days. This is
an increase of 6.3 per cent compared to
2010. In that year, 69,200 trade fair visitors
came from around 100 countries.
“We are very happy with the results of
Tube 2012,” said a content Norbert Keusen,
president and CEO of V&M Deutschland
GmbH. “We were able to intensify our
contacts with the professional audience
and presented our broad product range for
the industry in detail. In particular, we had
exciting talks about our new tube solution
PREOn marine for low noise and space-
saving construction of offshore windmills.”
With 1,184 exhibitors from 48 countries,
the Tube exhibitors occupied an overall
display area of approximately 49,000m2.
In comparison with its 2010 event, Tube
achieved even more area coverage. In
2012 it can report a display area increase
of 9.4 per cent.
On display at Tube 2012 was the entire
product and service range, from tube
manufacturing via tube processing to
tube machining. The offer range included
raw materials, tubes and accessories,
machinery for the production of tubes,
process technology tools and auxiliary
materials.
Profiles and profile technology,
measurement and control technology, test
engineering and speciality topics such as
warehouse automation monitoring and
control systems complemented the range of
products and services offered at the trade fair.
The main focus of Tube was again the
area of tube trade. Third-time participants
were the areas of pipelines and OCTG
technology (oil country tubular goods).
This is an expanding area against the
backdrop of major international pipeline
projects such as Nabucco, North Stream
and South Stream.
The trade visitors of Tube and wire again
assessed the two top events overall as
excellent.
In comparison with the previous events,
the evaluation of the products and services
on offer has again improved. German and
international visitors to the two trade fairs
gave excellent marks for the offer range of
the fairs.
In addition, there were more first-time
visitors to Tube this year than in previous
years.
In spring 2014, the leading trade fairs
Tube and wire will be held in Düsseldorf for
the 14th time from 7-11 April 2014.
Tube Düsseldorf – Germany
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Another successful
show in Düsseldorf