Rising exhibitor numbers and bigger. stands at both No. 1 trade fairs
wire and Tube are casting mighty shadows before themselves:three months ahead of the official opening the two world-beating trade fairs in their industries – wire, the International Wire and Cable Trade Fair, and Tube, the International Tube and Pipe Trade Fair – have already by far surpassed the results obtained at their respective previous events in 2006!
As of today (mid January 2008) 1,080 companies from 50 nations have registered for wire. The focal sectors are wire, cable and glass fibre machinery, spring production, metal forming, wire and cable. 37,000 experts are expected and 22,000 of these from abroad. wire will be held in Halls 9 to 14.
At Tube 950 enterprises from 45 countries have so far registered to display their products in Düsseldorf. Already now the International Tube and Pipe Trade Fair is posting a huge increase over the previous event! At present, 41,000 square metres of net exhibition space have already been occupied, in 2006 the total achieved was 31,653 m².
Approx. 29,000 visitors, of these 14,500 international guests, are expected at Tube in Halls 6 to 8b and parts of Hall 5. Focal ranges here will include all types of machinery for tube and pipe production and processing, raw materials and tubes and pipes made of various materials.
Holding these two trade fairs concurrently with METAV, one of the most important trade fairs for the metalworking sector, will benefit both exhibitors and visitors of all three events alike. The exhibitors of METAV will occupy the exhibition halls 1 to 5 and 15 to 17.
