The METAV 2012 trade fair – the year’s first international show for manufacturing technology and automation – took place in early March in Dusseldorf, Germany.
According to the show organizers, METAV confirmed that the European industry is keen to invest.
Demand for capital goods was said to be an outstanding feature of METAV 2012.
“The message METAV sent was very important”, said Dr Wilfried Schäfer, Executive Director of VDW (German Machine Tool Builders’ Association), which organised VDW.
“As the first major metal processing trade fair in the current year, it demonstrated impressively in an uncertain political environment that industry is optimistic and that the sectors supplied continue to be keen to invest.”
The roughly 700 METAV exhibitors from 26 different countries were unanimous in their confirmation of this. The orders placed with the German machine tool industry, which increased again in January this year, reflected this as well.
More than 40,000 trade visitors from over 30 different countries came to Düsseldorf for METAV 2012 over the five days of the fair. “This is a good performance in view of full order books and very high capacity utilisation in the sectors supplied”, concluded Wilfried Schäfer.
Given the importance of machining and automation in the stainless steel industry, Stainless Steel World dropped by the show to talk to just a few of the many exhibitors. Their thoughts were captured on video, as can be seen below.
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