EXHIBITIONS
Interview: Friedrich-Georg Kehrer
Interview with Friedrich-Georg Kehrer, Global Portfolio Director Metals and Flow Technologies, in the run-up to the international trade fairs wire and Tube, which will be held at the Düsseldorf Exhibition Centre again from 16 to 20 April 2018
Question:
What’s new at the world’s leading trade fairs for wire, cables and tubes in 2018?
Kehrer:
As before, the two number one trade fairs in their industries will occupy 16 exhibition halls, mapping the entire spectrum. They will cover wire manufacturing and finishing, process automation, measurement and control engineering, cable technologies, tube manufacturing and processing, raw materials, the raw material trade, pipelines, OCTG technology, profiles, pre-used machinery and plastic tubes. But there will also be enough
space for further specifications and applied technologies, and of course Industry 4.0 will definitely continue to determine the course of the two leading trade fairs in 2018. We’ll be welcoming over 70,000 trade visitors on those five days, and we’re expecting to see the entire professional world coming to Düsseldorf again.
What’s new is the hall layout. The southern section of our exhibition centre will be extended towards the Rhine, comprising the future Hall 1 and thus a new, light-flooded southern entrance area as the dominant feature, looking towards the city centre. This is why wire 2018 will be held in Halls 9 to 16
and parts of the temporary Hall 18, while Tube will cover Halls 3 to 7.0 and Halls 16, 17 and also parts of the temporary Hall 18.
It means that Hall 16 will form a transitional area and interface between wire 2018 and Tube 2018. In addition to the southern, eastern and northern entrances, there will be a temporary entrance in Hall 17. The shuttle buses will be serving all four entrances.
Question:
What will be the main emphasis in the various halls?
Kehrer:
wire: Halls 9 to 14 and part of Hall 16 will focus on wire and cable machines, wire and cable production and trade and glass fibre technologies.
Hall 13 will put the emphasis on mesh welding machines and spring making technology. Hall 15 will feature connection and fastening technologies, and the adjacent Hall 16 will have a section entitled “Meet China’s Expertise”. This has proved its worth in the past and has again been requested by our Chinese exhibitors who want to present their innovative products in a compact and manageable area, within one hall.
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Tube: Tube manufacturing, profiles and the tube trade will feature in Halls 3, 4, 7 and 16. Tube metal forming will be presented in Hall 5, and tube processing machines in Halls 6 and 7a. Plants and machinery will be showcased in Hall 7a, whereas Halls 16 and 17 will be about tube accessories. Profiles will be presented in Halls 3 to 7a and Halls 16 and 17. China’s Tube exhibitors will occupy Hall 16 together with their wire colleagues from the same country, inviting visitors to “Meet China’s Expertise”. But although the two Chinese groups will share the same hall, they will occupy different sections within it.
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photo by Messe Duesseldorf
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