ipcm® n. 72 - November/December 2021

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ICT | ZOOM ON EVENTS

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

© Deutsche Messe

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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