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PaintExpo 2020 Cancelled After All 8th World’s Leading Trade Fair for Industrial Coating Technologies, which was to take place from 12 to 15 October 2020 in Karlsruhe (Germany) has been cancelled.
D
ue to the still fragile corona
government are a further significant
situation, stricter hygiene
reason for deciding against holding
and distancing regulations
PaintExpo 2020.
for trade fairs in Baden-Württemberg
“We now intend to devote all of our
and sustained restrictions on
energy to preparing the next regularly scheduled PaintExpo in order to provide
international travel, PaintExpo 2020 will be cancelled after all.
to play a central role as well. As a result,
the industry sector with the best
The next world’s leading trade fair for
face-to-face contact and travel are
possible conditions for successful trade
industrial coating technology will take
being restricted to absolutely necessary
fair participation.”
place as scheduled in 2022.
interaction. What’s more, companies
The next world’s leading trade fair for
“Together with our exhibitors and
prohibit trade fair visits in some cases and
industrial coating technology will take
partners, we had hoped to hold
international travel is still subject to strict
place at the Karlsruhe Exhibition Centre
PaintExpo 2020 in October with
limits.
from the 26th through 29th of April, 2022.
corresponding health and safety
The requirements stipulated in the planned
measures for all participants.
“Corona Regulation for Trade Fairs”
For further information:
However, the circumstances have
issued by Baden-Württemberg’s state
www.paintexpo.de
other things due to new regulations for holding trade fairs in Baden-Württemberg, so that we now have to cancel the event after all,” reports Jürgen Haußmann, managing director of event promoters FairFair GmbH. This decision was taken on the basis of a survey of all PaintExpo 2020 exhibitors, a large number of whom were also against postponing the trade fair once again. Many companies are currently struggling with the economic impact of the corona pandemic and trade fair participation is thus not at the top of their priority list. Beyond this, health protection and preventing the spread of infection continue
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