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ALUMINIUM Trade Fair Will Be Back in 2022 ALUMINIUM Trade Fair has been postponed: it will take place from 27 to 29 September 2022 in Düsseldorf (Germany).
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restrictions impacting a number of exhibitors, sponsors and
ALUMINIUM Business Summit as an industry meeting place
speakers, organiser RX (Reed Exhibitions) have made the difficult
Together with the GDA and the CRU Group, organiser RX will bring the
n the context of the current situation and with the current travel
but appropriate decision to postpone ALUMINIUM 2021 to next
industry together for the ALUMINIUM Business Summit from 28 to 29
year. ALUMINIUM trade fair has been replaced with a congress: The
September; to discuss the most important topics of the industry in
ALUMINIUM Business Summit which will take place in Düsseldorf from
Düsseldorf.
28 to 29 September.
“With the Summit, we are creating a framework for the industry and
It should have been the long-awaited restart event for the aluminium
the participants to meet in person and, with the top-class lecture
industry. But due to the after-effects of the Corona pandemic, the
programme, and in so doing we are continuing to pursue the path
ALUMINIUM trade fair in Düsseldorf cannot take place as planned
started with the ALUMINIUM Digital Talk”, said Leithner.
from 28 to 30 September 2021. Instead, organiser RX and the German
A comprehensive hygiene concept will ensure that participants can
Aluminium Association (Gesamtverband der
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exchange ideas safely
Aluminiumindustrie,
on site. However, the
GDA), together with
number of participants
the CRU Group, are
will be limited. The
planning a two-day hybrid
content of the summit
congress format. On 28
will also be made
and 29 September the
available online.
ALUMINIUM Business
“The aim of the
Summit will bring experts
ALUMINIUM
together live and digitally
Business Summit
for an exchange of ideas.
is to accompany
Trade fair back on track in 2022
our industry, to constructively tackle the challenges of new
“Despite numerous
mobility, digitalisation,
relaxations, many
sustainability and
companies of the global
international market
aluminium industry still
development and to
feel uncertainties and
shape the industry’s
are affected by travel
transformation,” says
restrictions. An international event like ALUMINIUM is not feasible
Marius Baader, Managing Director of the GDA. The programme is
under these circumstances. The expectations that our exhibitors,
being produced in cooperation with the CRU Group and the European
visitors, partners and we have of a world-leading trade fair for this
industry association European Aluminium will also be involved in the
sector cannot be met this year under these conditions,” said Barbara
event. The next edition of the world trade fair ALUMINIUM will take
Leithner, COO of the organiser RX. “Together with our partners and
place as planned from 27 - 29 September 2022.
the industry, we have therefore decided to launch the fair again in autumn 2022.”
For further information: www.aluminium-exhibition.com
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