METAVs favourite: stand cookies!

An event­ful year is draw­ing to a close. The days are get­ting short­er, the nights cold­er and con­tem­pla­tion is com­ing. But Christ­mas time is also time for cook­ies. That’s why we went to the bak­ery and baked our favourite cook­ies: Stand cook­ies! You may have seen them on social media…  With com­bined forces from the…

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…

German participation at Chinese machine tool fair (Cimt) bigger than ever before

Ger­man machine tool man­u­fac­tur­ers occu­pied almost 9,500 square meters of exhi­bi­tion space at this year’s Chi­na Inter­na­tion­al Machine Tool Show (Cimt), which took place in Bei­jing from April 15 to 20. With around 240 exhibitors, Ger­many was by far the largest for­eign part­ner at one of China’s most impor­tant indus­tri­al trade fairs. The fair, which…

METAV 2020 International Trade Fair for Metalworking Technologies – Running like clockwork for 40 years now

Reg­is­tra­tions can be sub­mit­ted until 31 August 2019 It was in March 1980 that METAV (then sub­ti­tled “The Mar­ket For Met­al­work­ing”) opened its doors for the first time in Düs­sel­dorf. It very quick­ly became the lead­ing trade fair for met­al­work­ing in the even years. Today it sets the pace in the largest indus­tri­al met­ro­pol­i­tan area…

T4M: Messe Stuttgart pooling medical technology know-how

The med­ical tech­nol­o­gy indus­try will cel­e­brate the pre­mière of T4M – Tech­nol­o­gy for Med­ical Devices — in Stuttgart from 7 to 9 May 2019. Sup­pli­ers with med­ical tech­nol­o­gy exper­tise such as Lasertech Srl (Italy), Micro Éro­sion (France), Pre­ci­sion Micro Ltd (Great Britain), Zapp Pre­ci­sion Met­als GmbH MEDICAL ALLOYS (Ger­many), HAKAMA AG (Switzer­land) and Heimerle +…

IMTS 2018 shows high procurement levels in North America

The IMTS (Inter­na­tion­al Machine Tool Show), the largest and most impor­tant met­al­work­ing event in North Amer­i­ca, took place in mid-Sep­tem­ber in Chica­go. The US machine tool asso­ci­a­tion AMT, the organ­is­er of the event, cap­tured the suc­cess with head­lines such as “Boom­ing man­u­fac­tur­ing econ­o­my” and “Vis­i­tors have cap­i­tal and are ready to invest!” A broad range…

Euroblech 2018 draws to successful conclusion

Eurob­lech 2018, the 25th Inter­na­tion­al Sheet Met­al Work­ing Tech­nol­o­gy Exhi­bi­tion, came to an end after four days on 26 Octo­ber. A total of 56,300 vis­i­tors from all over the world trav­elled to Hanover to pick up infor­ma­tion on and invest in inno­v­a­tive prod­ucts and dig­i­tal tech­nolo­gies for sheet met­al pro­cess­ing from 1,507 exhibitors from 40…

umati for everyone – How do I benefit and how can I get involved?

umati will only be accept­ed as a stan­dard if as many com­pa­nies as pos­si­ble use it. The umati pre­sen­ta­tion at the AMB (includ­ing press con­fer­ence and stand) was com­ple­ment­ed by a well attend­ed infor­ma­tion event for VDW mem­bers. The aim was to pro­vide infor­ma­tion first-hand. Dr. Alexan­der Broos from the VDW explained the back­ground to…

AMB impresses on every count

1,553 exhibitors, more than 91,000 vis­i­tors and of course Messe Stuttgart itself can look back on a suc­cess­ful AMB 2018. All the glob­al mar­ket lead­ers pre­sent­ed their pro­duc­tion inno­va­tions on more than 120,000 gross square metres of exhi­bi­tion space spread across ten halls – and the AMB proved once again just how much Stuttgart has…