LASYS to present innovations and trend topics relating to laser material processing
Large number of international participants – Emphasis on ”Laser additive manufacturing“ and ”Robotics & Automation“ – Stuttgart Laser Technology Forum (SLT‘14) to focus on diffi cult to process materials
Unique trade fair for laser users
Messe Stuttgart was determined to offer an application-based forum for material processing using light as a tool and there- fore created LASYS, international trade fair for laser material processing, in 2008. LASYS has been held every two years since 2008 and will take place this year for the fourth time from 24 to 26 June in Stuttgart. ”To date, it has been the world‘s only trade fair specialising in laser applications in material processing, i.e. openly for all industries and all materials,“ said Thomas Walter, Head of the Industrial Solutions Business Division of Messe Stuttgart. LASYS 2014 will present the entire range of applications of lasers in material processing, special and new application areas, as well as the latest inno- vations at the Stuttgart Trade Fair Centre. LASYS will pay special attention to machines, processes and services.
”With 76 per cent of visitors coming from industry, it is clearly evident that LASYS is the quintessential international trade fair for laser users,“ emphasised Walter.
LASYS 2014 is expected to attract around 200 exhibitors, more than 30 per cent of whom already come from abroad. An exhibition area of around 10,000 square metres will be available for them in Hall 4. The foreign exhibitors who have already registered so far come from 19 different countries – from Europe, China, Israel, Japan, Taiwan, Turkey and the USA. The ”International Pavilion“ will again be available for those exhibitors wanting to take part in LASYS without incur- ring too much expenditure. This advantageous offer has been used to date by exhibitors from countries such as the United Kingdom, Lithuania, the Netherlands and the USA. Finland is showing a great deal of interest in LASYS this year and will be represented by its own ”Finnish Pavilion“. There are still a few places free in both Pavilions. These facts underline once more the international character of LASYS.
Market confi rms the trade fair concept of LASYS
The market confi rms the need for such an international pre- sentation and communication platform as offered by LASYS. This is shown alone by the development of the world market for laser systems between 1999 and 2013 when the average annual growth rate in this market sector was an impressive 8 per cent. These fi gures come from the Association for Lasers and Laser Systems for Material Processing in the German Engineering Federation (VDMA). This Association is the pro- motional supporter of LASYS and backs the market-oriented trade fair concept with its reliable and extensive industry know-how. The laser analysts are also predicting continuing growth although stronger fl uctuations can now be seen.
According to the VDMA, however, these fl uctuations are due less to demand for the technology itself and increasingly to exogenous infl uences from the fi nance sector. That‘s because practically every branch of industry is interested in laser processes. The visitor target groups for LASERS are therefore spread across a wide range of industries: from mechanical engineering, the motor vehicle construction industry, the optical industry, the metal working and processing industry, plant and apparatus construction, the electrical engineering and electronics industry, precision engineering, the plastics industry and the semiconductor industry through to medical technology. Around 5,000 visitors from these industries are expected at LASYS 2014.
In their production companies all these visitors are faced with the challenge of manufacturing an even larger range of vari- ants in a cost-effective way with high quality, high throughput rates and a high degree of fl exibility. This balance can only be achieved by using advanced technologies, for example laser technology in material processing. That‘s because laser processes can be used very fl exibly both as stand-alone
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