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It increased the number of visitors of all Europe

Metav Confirms the interest of the European industry to invest

Editorial Interempresas15/03/2012

15 March 2012

The demand of goods of team of way alentadora was the most excellent characteristic of Metav 2012. Pertinent professional visitors of Germany and the rest of Europe gathered in Düsseldorf of 28 February to 3 March in the international fair of technology of manufacture and automation. “The message sent by Metav was very important”, explains Wilfried Schäfer, executive director of the VDW (German Association of manufacturers of machines-tool). “Like the first important commercial fair of process of metals of this year, the Metav has showed of impressesive form that the industry is optimistic and that the sectors that resupplies follow being had to invest”.

The near of 700 display units Metav, pertinent of 26 different countries, confirmed this feeling, backed by the requests to the industry of machines-German tool, that increased again in January of this year. Regarding visitors, went through Metav 2012 more than 40.000 pertinent professionals of more than 30 countries.

The display units did upsetting in the high quality of the visitors in particular. Rolf Rickmeyer, president of MAG Europe in Göttingen, spoke in representation of many of the display units when it confirmed that “the customers arrived with projects very elaborated and wanted appointments for them”.

By sectors, 60% of the visitors proceeded of industrial companies —especially customers of the manufacture of machines, construction of plants and industry automotriz—, what comes to represent at all less than a fifth part of the visitors. “It was evident that the small and medium enterprises are also doing investments, following the initiative undertaken by a key industry as it is the one of the car. They used Metav like a platform for the taking of decisions and buy machines”, explains Jens Wunderlich, director of marketing of the technologies of Profiroll in Bad Düben.

In Metav did patent the interest of the companies for finding machines and solutions to his demands.

Firm will to invest in a lot of areas

The reports elaborated by the fair evidencian on the other hand a big will by part of the industry to invest, to tenor of the reasons alluded by the visitors. Like this, around 45% of them manifested that they proceeded of charges of half or upper management. They are those that have authority to take decisions and can realise requests. Around a fifth part of the managers realise the directly in the fair or go out with intention to do it afterwards. Gisbert Krause, director of the greater expositor in Metav, Hommel of Colony, explains the profits that supposes this fair: “Our sales of machines in Metav have been to the same level that before the crisis”. By his part, Oliver Sussmann, director of CMZ Deutschland GmbH in Stuttgart, the German subsidiary of the Spanish mark, showed loved with his participation: “In the first days of the fair reach the entrance of asked average of a month”. In group, each one of the customers with power of decision and the specific projects of investment added some 5,8 requests realised directly in Metav or just afterwards.

The next edition of Metav will be in Düsseldorf of the 11 to the 15 and March of 2014

More European visitors

The tenth part of the visitors to Düsseldorf arrived from out of Germany. The majority of them —8% more than in the previous case— proceeded of other European countries. It stands out especially the number of customers of the Low Countries, Austria, Belgium, Poland, Spain and Russia. And only the percentage of professional visitors of the Benelux almost duplicated . “The foreign customers that need to realise investments now are using Metav to inform , to do comparisons and concertar agreements”, went the comment realised by the director of the VDW.

The visitors and display units to reach his just aims

More than 90% of the visitors Metav showed very satisfied with the exhibition and reached put them that they had fixed for the fair. The conclusions elaborated by the display units are similar. The success of the business is the main aim of his participation in the fair. In the questionnaire of display units, four of each five companies said that they had reached the aims that had fixed for the fair. 85% it affirms, therefore, that will participate in the next Metav.

Metav, the 2ª greater German fair of the sector of the metal that celebrates in years stop

“Metav 2012 confirmed once again the important paper that plays for the metallurgical industry”, explains Wilfried Schäfer to way of summary. “It is the second greater German fair of the sector of the metal that celebrates the years stop, that serves mainly to customers in western Europe and the north of Germany, Benelux, Scandinavia and some parts of east Europe. Although our analysis of the visitors also shows very clearly that the south customers of Germany and the south of Europe come to Metav when they think in investing in the following months”.

Metav Has like objective market customers in western Europe and the north of Germany, Benelux, Scandinavia and some parts of east Europe.

In search of new talents

Find new recruits for the industry of the metal was an important aim in Metav 2012. The stand special devoted to the youngsters, ‘Machine manufacturing – to job with power' (the allusion to the future and potential of the sector of the to manufacture of machinery) attracted the attention of professors, representatives of the administration of schools as well as of the political community and of the own young. Peter Bole, director of ‘recruitment' of the foundation VDW, and his team welcomed near of 4.600 students. “The stand special for youngsters gave us the opportunity to present our projects to a big number of students, teachers and educational in an appropriate environingingment”.

On the other hand, the space ‘Metal meets Medical' and the forum associated celebrated for the second time with the aim to arrive to the maximum variety of customers of the field of the medical technology. 15 companies presented products and solutions. Bernd Heuchemer, vice-president of Marketing of Siemens, commented that “although the medical technology keeps on being a market of moderate size, the stand special ‘Metal meets Medical' gave us a platform through which have been able to show our wallet of products to the customers of different industries also by means of the use of examples of specific and innovative applications”.

Finally, another novelty was the area of special exhibition CompositeWorld and the forum associated to him. Rudolf M. Hufschmied, the one who headed Hufschmied Zerspanungssysteme GmbH in Bobingen during a lot of years, represents one of the nine companies present in the context of this special program. “Our participation was a complete success. The processed of fibre of carbon is still a new subject, so there was a big need of information and advice”.