Moulding Expo opens its doors: fixed meeting point for trendsetters

705 exhibitors are tak­ing part in this year’s Mould­ing Expo. Now being held for the third time, the trade fair is becom­ing estab­lished on the mar­ket and has found its reg­u­lar exhibitors who main­ly com­prise tool, pat­tern and mould mak­ing com­pa­nies. Mould­ing Expo is unique since 50 per cent of exhibitors now come from this sec­tor. An increas­ing num­ber of for­eign exhibitors (37 per cent) are dis­cov­er­ing the poten­tial of the trade fair. “Mould­ing Expo has become a per­ma­nent fix­ture in the trade fair cal­en­dar for tool, pat­tern and mould mak­ing com­pa­nies. New ideas are devel­oped, future projects are dis­cussed and new prod­ucts are there­fore actu­al­ly cre­at­ed at this indus­try meet­ing point,” said Ulrich Kromer von Baer­le, CEO of Messe Stuttgart. The fact that the indus­try is focus­ing more and more on the trade fair with new ideas and projects such as the “Mar­ket Report Tool Mak­ing” and the fair­ness ini­tia­tive fair­ness + can be regard­ed as con­fir­ma­tion of the concept.

Pre­sen­ta­tion at Mould­ing Expo: first issue of the “Mar­ket Report Tool Making”

“The Mar­ket Report Tool Mak­ing” is an ini­tia­tive which is being sup­port­ed by a large num­ber of com­pa­nies in the indus­try,” said Jens Lüdtke, Man­ag­ing Direc­tor of Tebis Con­sult­ing and a mem­ber of the Exec­u­tive Com­mit­tee for the project. The ini­tia­tive was estab­lished in order to pro­mote sus­tain­abil­i­ty in the tool, pat­tern and mould mak­ing indus­try. Com­par­i­son oppor­tu­ni­ties, mar­ket trans­paren­cy and action rec­om­men­da­tions will be cre­at­ed through inte­grat­ed analy­ses. The par­tic­i­pants in the coop­er­a­tive ini­tia­tive receive a full indi­vid­ual report on the actu­al state of their com­pa­ny. “Since it is an indus­try meet­ing point, Mould­ing Expo is the ide­al forum to present ini­tial results in an exten­sive mar­ket overview to the widest pos­si­ble range of trade vis­i­tors,” added Lüdtke. As an indus­try index con­tain­ing an exten­sive descrip­tion of trends and future devel­op­ments, the over­all Mar­ket Report will then be pub­lished every two years to coin­cide with Mould­ing Expo.

fair­ness+ of the VDMA Pre­ci­sion Tools Asso­ci­a­tion: “an advan­tage for everyone”

“Tool, pat­tern and mould mak­ers, sup­pli­ers of met­al work­ing tech­nolo­gies, buy­ers and parts man­u­fac­tur­ers: because every play­er in our indus­try meets at Mould­ing Expo, it is an ide­al set­ting to present the tool mak­ing fair­ness ini­tia­tive fair­ness+,” said Markus Hesed­ing, Man­ag­ing Direc­tor of the VDMA Pre­ci­sion Tools Asso­ci­a­tion. “We give an under­tak­ing here to act fair­ly in our busi­ness rela­tion­ships and invite our part­ners along the val­ue-added chain to join us. Because if every­one pulls togeth­er, our indus­tries can joint­ly extend their lead­ing posi­tion on the world mar­ket.” The VDMA Pre­ci­sion Tools Asso­ci­a­tion wants to use the ini­tia­tive at the trade fair to pro­vide an incen­tive for fair col­lab­o­ra­tion. The VDMA Pre­ci­sion Tools Asso­ci­a­tion is there­fore high­light­ing the advan­tages of fair rela­tion­ships between cus­tomers and sup­pli­ers, and pri­mar­i­ly fair con­tract terms. Ulti­mate­ly, the objec­tive of fair­ness+ is to strength­en the com­pet­i­tive­ness of every indi­vid­ual link in the val­ue-added chain in order to gen­er­ate per­ma­nent val­ue-added for every part­ner. “We want”, added Hesed­ing, “to joint­ly become more com­pet­i­tive and tack­le the major chal­lenges in future. The tool and mould mak­ing indus­try can offers its cus­tomers a great deal!”

About Mould­ing Expo

Whether a hid­den cham­pi­on or a large group, the best that the first-class inter­na­tion­al tool, pat­tern and mould mak­ing indus­try and its sup­pli­ers have to offer will meet for the third time at Mould­ing Expo from 21 to 24 May 2019.

With the pro­mo­tion code* MEX19VDW you get free admis­sion to the trade fair.

*Redeem at www.moulding-expo.com/promotioncode