Messe München GmbH - CERAMITEC 2006; May 2006 - Final Report

CERAMITEC 2006 maintains its position as affair point for the all-around ceramics industry
•Around 22,000 visitors on four exhibition canicule instead of five
•High akin of internationality already afresh with over 50 per cent of visitors from abroad

Despite the absorption of contest in the area this year, CERAMITEC 2006 has afresh approved its position as the arch all-embracing barter fair for the industry. Today, Friday, this the 10th International Trade Fair for Machinery, Equipment, Plant, Processes and Raw Materials for CERAMICS and POWDER METALLURGY draws to a abutting in Munich. The accident admiring about 22,000 barter visitors from 106 countries – about as abounding visitors as at CERAMITEC 2003, although the accepted CERAMITEC had been beneath by one day. More than 50 per cent of these barter visitors came from abroad. “No added fair is as all-embracing as CERAMITEC. No added accident has such a counterbalanced anatomy in its range. On four canicule of exhibition, CERAMITEC brings the all-around ceramics industry calm in one place”, says Eugen Egetenmeir, affiliate of the managing axle of Messe München.

According to the after-effects of the analysis by TNS Infratest, CERAMITEC’s visitors included a top admeasurement of decision-makers (91 per cent), with 66 per cent of these in authoritative positions. Over 70 per cent of the exhibitors adjourned the abundance of visitors to their stands as “good to excellent”, and 86 per cent anticipation additionally about the internationality of the customers.

The important all-embracing ceramics markets were in appearance in Munich – as is acutely apparent by the company abstracts for the alone countries. Apart from Germany, the a lot of barter visitors came from Italy followed by France, Turkey, Austria, Spain, the Czech Republic, Great Britain, Poland, Iran and Russia. There was abundant absorption on the allotment of Asia too: for the aboriginal time, Koreans abounding the fair and the amount of Japanese added abounding times over. “This barter fair continues to be of abundant all-embracing importance; over 50 per cent

of the barter appear from alfresco Europe, they are mainly decision-makers. Our a lot of important objectives were to access new applications and orders, and we succeeded in that”, says Karl A. P. Eping, administrator of LAEIS GmbH from Luxembourg. The Japanese adviser Masayasu Izawa from Izawa Pigment thinks the same: “CERAMITEC is absolutely an all-embracing affair point for the sector. One of our objectives is to get added barter in Europe and that’s why we crop advantage of CERAMITEC.”

At CERAMITEC 2006, 612 exhibitors from 42 countries presented their articles and casework alignment from base and accomplished ceramics and raw abstracts assembly appropriate down to the adverse industry and crumb metallurgy. After Germany, Italy was the better announcement country internationally. The allotment from Asia and the Middle East added as did the appeal from Central and Eastern Europe. The bazaar leaders fabricated use of CERAMITEC to authenticate the latest machinery, bulb and processes. “CERAMITEC gave us to befalling to acquaint our new technologies”, states Daniel Burak Selamet, admiral of UNIMAK Machinery, Turkey.

Trade visitors gave a absolute appraisal of the synergies produced in affiliation with AUTOMATICA, which took abode at the aforementioned time. Here they begin suppliers in the accompanying areas of packaging and materials-handling technology, exhaustion technology and analysis and barometer systems. Michael Zins, administrator of TASK, Germany, says: “In aggregate with AUTOMATICA, a abundant abounding talks were captivated about specific apparatus from abstruse ceramics. Obviously there was a acceptable alteration of visitors amid the two fairs.”

There was a absolute acknowledgment to the new CERAMITEC FORUM, which offered a belvedere for developments in the ceramics industry. “As the appointment is chip into the halls and has an accessible structure, the contest are brought afterpiece to the added activities at the fair. Expanding markets like India can appropriately acquaint themselves to an all-embracing public”, says Rajesh Nath, administrator of the Indian adumbrative appointment of the Verband Deutscher Maschinen- und Anlagenbau e.V. (VDMA).

The next CERAMITEC takes abode in 2009.

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About Messe München International (MMI) Messe München International (MMI, Munich Trade Fairs International Group) is one of the world’s arch trade-fair companies. It organises about 40 barter fairs for basic and chump goods, and key high-tech industries. Each year over 30,000 exhibitors from added than 100 countries, and over two actor visitors from added than 200 countries crop allotment in the contest in Munich. In addition, MMI organises barter fairs in Asia, Russia, the Middle East and South America. With four subsidiaries abroad and 62 adopted representatives, analytic afterwards 86 countries, MMI has a absolutely all-around network.

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