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GET TECHNICAL 2023: Manufacturing is coming home Part II The edition 2023 of GET TECHNICAL took place at the Eurotherm premises in Turin, Italy, last November 21 and 22.
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n 2017, the sppot eco-system was created by attracting the top
importance of human factor for a premium finishing process.
leading global surface finishing producers to give state of the
The afternoon session was only practical; after lunch and after a short
art surface finishing solutions to the bicycle and sporting goods
tour of Eurotherm facility, guests from the industry were able to see
industry. The sppot is a partnership of well-known, globally presented
practical demonstrations of finishing processes and to troubleshoot any
companies: TIGER Coatings, Berlac AG, WAGNER, Posterama, Eurotherm
kind of trouble they may face during their daily finishing activities.
Spa, Lesta and Duthoo Care and Repair Systems. In 2019 the sppot
Chairman of the event was Alessia Venturi, the editor in chief of
kicked off the BIG 3 event series, which consists of: The Colour Trend
ipcm®_International Paint&Coating Magazine, the only international and
Days, the exhibition Eurobike, and the GetTechnical program - aiming
globally distributed trade journal in the field of painting, powder coating
to connect OEMs, designers, Brand Owners, Industry suppliers, Tech
and surface finishing in general delivering high quality information to
staff and actual production teams to discuss hot topics & trends in
OEMs and job coaters.
the manufacturing and surface finishing world, and to promote best This is exactly what the edition 2023 of GET TECHNICAL – Manufacturing
Manufacturing ecosystems: the future of manufacturing in Europe
is coming home offered to a bunch of around 180 persons coming from
Re-shoring is the opposite of off-shoring and is an economic
all over Europe: OEMs and suppliers in the bike and sporting goods
phenomenon that consists in the return home of companies that
industries, job coaters and innovators joined the two-day, free-of-
had previously relocated production outside Europe, mainly to Asian
charge, live event dedicated to technical expertise and innovations.
countries such as China.
Organized in Turin at Eurotherm premises last November 21 and 22, the
With the pandemic and then, from 2022, with the war between Russia
morning session of the event started with a welcome note of the host
and Ukraine, re-shoring was dictated by simple economic factors.
and Eurotherm CEO Paolo Ghiazza, followed by a detailed presentation
Already with the coronavirus, the need to rethink reshoring strategies
of the spot ecosystem, its goals, its projects, and its events by Yavor
had forcefully emerged. In the first half of 2020, many companies
Peshev, sppot’s CEO, and with an analysis of the impact of Industry 4.0 in
were forced to create recovery plans to make up for the shortages of
the finishing field by Darren Bond, Eurotherm’s foreign sales manager.
materials from factories located in areas affected by the spread of the
The event went on with two panel discussions involving several speakers
pandemic before their own. This created the need to completely rework
from the industry and technical experts around two main topics: Re-
local supply chains.
shoring and the future of manufacturing in Europe; Circularity and the
The goal of this open discussion at GET TECHNICAL 2023 was to
practices for the finishing of bicycle and sporting goods.
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