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PaintExpo 2020 - Adjusting Painting Processes to New Requirements
S
urface finishing is the decisive criterion
personalisation of products, regulatory
offerings than anywhere else in the world at
for the success of products, and thus
changes, the digital transformation and
the Karlsruhe Exhibition Centre from the 21st
for a company’s competitive edge.
more rigorous goals with regard to energy
through the 24th of April, 2020.
Consequently, industrial coating technologies
efficiency and climate protection. Industrial
On the one hand, a glance at the list of
make an essential contribution to value
coating technology is being impacted by this
exhibitors demonstrates that PaintExpo lives
creation. Companies with in-house painting
as well.
up to this claim. By the end of August 2019,
operations and coating job-shops are faced
more than 450 companies from 22 countries
process adjustments. PaintExpo will present
High Levels of Complexity Necessitate Comprehensive Information
the world’s most comprehensive and future-
Although some of the issues are by no
trade fair for industrial coating technologies.
oriented solutions to this end at the Karlsruhe
means new, the competitiveness of coating
They’ve already reserved 98% of the exhibition
with changing and new requirements as a result, which necessitate corresponding
– including all of the market and technology leaders – had already made firm bookings for their booth locations at the world’s leading
Exhibition Centre from the 21 through the
operations will increasingly depend on how
floor space occupied at the event in 2018.
24th of April, 2020. The exhibition portfolio
well and quickly they can respond to these
On the other hand, it illustrates the extent of
covers everything from pre-treatment, right
changes. As a prerequisite, the coating
the exhibition offerings: the portfolio covers all
on up to quality control and packaging.
process has to be adapted or optimised.
process sequences for powder coating, liquid
The great complexity of painting and coating
and UV painting and coil coating technologies.
Companies in all industry sectors are
processes with numerous interlinking work
The spectrum of materials to be coated ranges
currently being confronted with a wide variety
steps makes comprehensive information
from metals, plastics, wood, wooden materials,
of trends and changes. Amongst others these
concerning trends, technologies, new
glass and ceramics, right on up to material
include new manufacturing technologies,
developments and the suppliers throughout
combinations. “This targeted concentration
the use of new and modified materials and
the entire process sequence indispensable.
of suppliers and technologies makes it
material combinations, the realignment
PaintExpo will present a corresponding
possible for job-shop coaters and visitors from
of entire industry sectors, shortened
cross-technology, cross-industry overview
companies with in-house painting operations
product lifecycles and smaller lot quantities,
with more comprehensive and up-to-date
to inform themselves efficiently and in a
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