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It continues to be the appointment of reference for the whole chain of product development

Engineering and the automotive industry, points of interest in EuroMold

Drafting Interempresas28/12/2009

December 28, 2009

The tenth sixth edition of the fair EuroMold, held again in Frankfurt (Germany), closed its doors on December 5 with a balance of 56,372 visitors from 86 different countries. The outsiders 19.535 increase by 10% the participation of foreign visitors from previous editions. As it is tradition, the date was announced for 2010. EuroMold 2010 will take place from 11 to December 4 in Frankfurt, as always.

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Traditionally, EuroMold receives most of its visitors from Europe. On this occasion, Switzerland was the country that brought more visitors (9%), followed by Austria, Netherlands, Italy (8.7%) and Spain (5%). Asia is becoming increasingly important, with visitors from Korea of the South (2.3%), Japan (1.6%), India (1%), China (1.5%) and Taiwan and Iran. 1.7% Were from United States and also Israel, Brazil and South Africa professionals visited the fair.

EuroMold always achieves high numbers of visitors.

Most of the visitors, more than a quarter, belonged to the automotive industry, which means an increase of 17%. It has also increased the percentage of visitors from engineering up to 21%. Other important sectors are the electricity industry and electronics (6.4% of the attendees), the medical (3%), the construction of plants (4.5%), the containers and packaging (3.3%), goods of consumption (3.1%) and aerospace (2.9%).

As for the exhibitors, they reached 1,354, from 37 different countries.

The great diversity of techniques that is exposed is one of the peculiarities of this fair.

The exhibition was completed with a programme of special exhibitions and side events as 'e-production for everyone' and ' Automation within moldmaking and tooling'. With all these formats the fairground of Frankfurt became again a forum where converged the technologies and innovations spanning the complete product development chain. Precisely the concept that allows to hold this fair every year with success, because there is no other to submit all necessary for the production of a piece, from his "idea" stage, unless it is already on the market.

The fair promotes discussions such as this on the automation in the manufacture of moulds.

Despite the economic situation, many exhibitors showed their satisfaction by the contacts made. Christof M. Stotko, responsible for Global Marketing of EOS (Electro Optical Systems), said: "we have made contacts of interest and we have delved into relations with companies that we already knew". Konstantin Bikar, CEO of Bikar step noted "with surprise the large number of interested visitors" and Dirk Dombert, CEO of Cimatron, for whom "EuroMold 2009 has been a success" was expressed in similar terms. Marco Schülken, CEO of Werkzeugbau Ruhla, also expected more discrete results, given the situation, and ended the show happy by the large number of public, in the same way as Andy Middleton, CEO Europe of Objet Geometries.

Feet of cat for climbing forms in 3 (d), designed by the University of Corburg.

EuroMold has always been the Forum which brings together the techniques of rapid prototyping and rapid manufacturing. On this occasion, during the fair was held again the International Congress of 'Rapid Prototyping and Rapid Manufacturing', organized by Wohlers Association.

Also held a Congress on thermoforming organized by Society of Plastics Engineers.