ZOOM ON EVENTS
The First Edition of Lamiera in Milan was a Great Success: 23,579 Registered Visits
G
© CEU-CENTRO ESPOSIZIONI UCIMU
for the exhibition were already sold-out. reat success for LAMIERA, the PRODURRE, in cooperation with the Ministry For this reason, for 2019, LAMIERA will have international biennial exhibition of Economic Development and ICE-Italian an additional pavilion besides the two halls focused on the metal forming Trade Agency, which materialised in more that were completely booked for the edition machine tool industry and on all innovative than 1,600 meetings at the exhibitors’ stands. that has just ended. technologies related to the sector. Promoted by UCIMU-SISTEMI PER The registered number of visiting operators The trade show took place at fieramilano PRODURRE, the Italian machine tools, robots attests to the growth of this exhibition, which Rho from 17 to 20 May 2017. and automation systems manufacturers’ considerably benefitted from its location and For its debut in Milan, the event had all association, and organised by CEU-CENTRO date change. The total visits were 23,579, i.e. its exhibition area sold-out, registering ESPOSIZIONI UCIMU, the trade show - a 15% more than in the previous edition. a presence of exhibiting companies, an reference point for Industry 4.0 - showed exhibition surface area and the best international product a number of visitors above offering of the sector. expectations. Great interest was generated In particular, the exhibition area by the special initiative of the two pavilions set up for the LAMIERALIVING, a display trade show (halls 13 and 15) was area presenting more than increased by 21% compared with 40 design objects, icons of the 2016 edition. the Made in Italy worldwide, The total surface area was 40,000 which had won the prestigious square meter. “ADI Compasso d’oro” As far as exhibitors are concerned, international Award and were over 480 exhibiting companies totally or partially made using participated in LAMIERA, i.e. metal forming machines and 25% more than in the previous technologies (Fig. 1). 1 edition. Among the attending “The results we had - pointed companies 27% were from abroad. out Massimo Carboniero, Figure 1: One of the products displayed at the LAMIERALIVING Area. In the spotlight there were: President of UCIMU-SISTEMI sheet metal forming machines, PER PRODURRE - are an Visitors from abroad made up a percentage bar-, tube-, section-working machines, excellent basis for the next edition of of 9%, thus almost twice as many as those presses, blanking and punching machines, LAMIERA, which will take place from 15 to attending the 2016 edition. Numerous laser, robots, automation, Industry 4.0, 18 May 2019 at fieramilano Rho. Our next operators came from Switzerland, Germany, moulds and dies, heat treatments, surface target is to further increase the international Spain, France, Poland, Serbia, Croatia, treatment and finishing, wires and metal character of the event thanks to a specific Slovenia, Russia, Japan, India and Great carpentry. promotion programme addressed to foreign Britain. The exhibiting companies have been really operators. The fact that LAMIERA will again In addition, there were 110 buyers belonging interested in the event, as evidenced by be held every two years will help to ensure a to 13 delegations of foreign operators coming the numerous applications to take part higher presence of innovations and novelties from Algeria, Brazil, Canada, China, Germany, in this trade show. Some applications on show: a good part of them, related to the India, Iran, Morocco, Mexico, Poland, were received even few days before the technologies of Industry 4.0, should be in the Russia, Serbia and Turkey, invited within the beginning of LAMIERA and the organisers process of being fully consolidated in 2019”. initiative promoted by UCIMU-SISTEMI PER could not accept them, as the halls reserved For more information: www.lamiera.net
122
N. 46 - JULY/AUGUST 2017 - international PAINT&COATING magazine