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Successful Restart for parts2clean With more than 2,000 visitors from Germany and neighboring European Union countries, parts2clean restarted successfully after the pandemic-induced break. Approximately 130 exhibiting companies, one in five of them from outside Germany, presented new products and solutions for a wide variety of industry applications at the meeting point for parts and surface cleaning.
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arts2clean in Stuttgart demonstrated the increasing
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provided a unique knowledge platform for all topics related
importance of cleaning processes
to parts and surface cleaning.
in the age of Industrie 4.0 and
Hundreds attended the forum
AI. Steadily growing demand for
on-site and 1,500 participants
clean surfaces and components
joined online. Frank-Holm Rögner,
requires highly efficient cleaning
division manager at Fraunhofer,
technologies as well as seamless
reported, “We are extremely
integration of processes
satisfied with the high level of
throughout the production chain.
participation in our forum, where
Exhibitors from more than ten
we were able to welcome not only
countries informed the trade
national but also international
visitors about new products and
visitors. The number of visitors
solutions for clean parts and
is lower overall than in 2019,
surfaces. “We are delighted that
but the quality is very good. The
parts2clean restarted so successfully and confirmed its role as the
topics ‘challenges due to film contamination’ and ‘cleaning for medical
most important international platform for industrial parts and surface
and pharmaceutical technology’ were particularly well received. There
cleaning,” says Arno Reich, senior vice president at Deutsche Messe
was also strong interest in the areas of standardization and guidelines
AG. “We are very satisfied with the number of visitors under the given
and the exhibitor product presentations. The demand for up-to-date
conditions, especially since the quality was extremely high.”
information is huge, which is a great position for the parts2clean forum.”
Roughly 2,000 visitors came to parts2clean in Stuttgart, one in five
The exhibitors were also completely satisfied.
of them from abroad. The strongest visitor countries were Austria,
Samuel Wolf, Assistance to the Management, vapic GmbH:
France, Italy, and Switzerland. Visitor quality was excellent: every third
“As the leading trade fair for industrial parts cleaning, parts2clean has
visitor came from top management, every fifth from the department
been the most important of all trade shows for us for years. What makes
manager level. Every third visitor came to part2clean with specific
parts2clean special is that customers come with specific project ideas
investment plans. The strongest visitor industries were the automotive
and want to develop solutions together on-site. Visitors demand a wide
industry (33 percent) as well as mechanical and plant engineering,
range of specialist knowledge to meet their requirements. We rate this
followed by medical and semiconductor technology and the aerospace
year’s show just as successful as parts2clean 2019 and thank all visitors
industry.
for their interest. We look forward to starting the new projects.” Wolfgang Kaufmann, Head of Sales, Zippel GmbH:
Innovations and further developments
“We were pleasantly surprised that on the morning of the first day we
parts2clean featured numerous new and further developments. Trade
had many visitors at the exhibit. That was the best morning at the show
show premieres included plant, process and process technology,
so far. The other two days of the fair were also very well attended. Of
clean and cleaning rooms, cleaning media and containers, work piece
course, we cannot compare the absolute number with 2019, but the
carriers and washing baskets, degreasing and cleaning solutions,
visitors who were at parts2clean were specifically looking for solutions
ultrasonic devices for cleaning, bathroom maintenance, cleanliness
and were not only interested in our standard systems, but also in tailor-
control, corrosion protection, and packaging.
made solutions, which we manufacture completely customer-specific.”
Expert forum a magnet for visitors Fraunhofer’s cleaning division organized the parts2clean forum, which
For further information: www.parts2clean.de/en/
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