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parts2clean a Clear Success Through Quality, Size and International Profile Despite a Difficult Economic Trend
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ver a period of three days,
and reports about reduced or cancelled
not seen in the past. Interest was focused
parts2clean again offered a global
business travel budgets, many exhibitors
on the tasks and challenges of lightweight
platform for information and
arrived at the event with relatively low
engineering, medical technology,
acquisition with 230 exhibitors from 20
expectations. The parts2clean organizer
electronics, precision engineering and
countries taking part in the 17 edition
added: “We learned from the exhibitors that
optics. Our new processes for deburring
of the event. Some 4,250 trade visitors
many of the enquiries and the talks they
and cleaning of individual parts, as well
from 48 countries attended the display in
held focused on new applications.” This was
as partial component cleaning, generated
the Stuttgart exhibition halls looking for
confirmed by Rainer Straub, member of the
some very keen interest at our stand,
information and solutions to the problems
Board of Management and Vice President of
particularly among visitors from aluminium
and daily challenges facing them in their
Sales & Customer Service, Ecoclean GmbH:
die casting.”
th
industrial segment. This flagship
28 percent came from other
The serious, business-like
European countries. This means
nature of the talks that take
that one in ten foreign visitors
place during parts2clean
came from outside Europe.
is underlined by the
As could be expected, the
consistently high proportion
biggest number of visitors came
of trade visitors: 99 percent
from Germany and Austria.
of all attendees. Many
After these two countries the
are involved in decision-
biggest contingents of visitors
making and more than half
came from Italy, France and the
of them are either from
not exceeded, the results of the previous year. The proportion
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came from EU countries, while
Trade visitors with decision-making competence – and a clear interest in investing and finding solutions
international event matched, if
of foreign visitors rose slightly to 22 percent. 63 percent of them
United Kingdom. “The stable trend in visitor
The next parts2clean will take place from 27-29 October 2020 in Stuttgart, Germany.
numbers, despite difficult
top management or hold an important position in management. This year, 86 percent of the attendees
economic conditions, illustrates the
“Considering the background to the event
were involved in making their company’s
important role played by parts2clean as
and our experience of other major fairs,
investment decisions, a figure slightly above
a global hub for promoting business in
parts2clean went a lot better than we had
the results of the previous event. Some
this industrial sector,” says Olaf Daebler,
expected. Although visitor numbers from
76 percent of the trade visitors reported
Global Director for parts2clean at Deutsche
the automobile industry were clearly down,
that they came to parts2clean with the
Messe AG. In view of the cautious market
we registered a very substantial number of
firm intention of making investment and
predictions, the uncertain economic
contacts and new enquiries about cleaning
procurement decisions. Of this number,
prospects affecting the automobile industry
requirements, which was something we had
some 77 percent plan to invest within the
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N. 60 - NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2019 - international PAINT&COATING magazine