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plastic pipes, separating, cutting, sawing and stainless steel provided information on their news and trends.
Experts from numerous exhibiting firms presented their companies’ sustainability strategies, discussed paths towards the green transformation and energy and climate policy with the audience or pre- sented successes already achieved on the way to decarbonisation. Be it the wire & Tube Convention, ITA-Forum, BDS Forum, SawExpo Forum, Special Area Plastic Tubes & Pipes or the digital ecoMetals and high potential trails – the exhibition halls were brimming with innovations.
“This year our new developments received extremely positive feedback, which was also reflected by the high number of visi- tors at our exhibition stand. Alongside new machine concepts such as the modular transfer bending machine BQ10, the theme of “assisted machinery” went down espe- cially well in the context of skilled labour shortages. This machinery assists new staff in setting up, performing individual process steps independently. With four levels WAFIOS has laid the foundation to incorpo- rate machines with their assistive functions long term,” adds Weigmann.
The exhibition stands in Halls 1 to 7.1
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wire and Tube: fit for the requirements of the future
Trends in wire and cable machines, in wire and cable manufacture, in the trade as well as the latest developments in the field of glass fibre technologies, mesh welding machinery, spring making and connection and fastener technologies were presented in exhibition halls 9 to 17.
made it clear that the tube industry not only “thinks big” but also boasts convinc- ing, sustainable concepts for the use of renewable energies and the reduction of CO2 emissions. The sectors using tubes and pipelines are as highly diverse as are the requirements for the material properties and sorts/grades. Here plastic pipes play an increasingly important role, as mirrored by the consistently high footfall in the Special Area Plastic Tubes & Pipes in Hall 1.
“wire & Tube is the place where the future of the wire and tube industries is actively shaped and we introduce the innovations of the last two years to our customers,” rejoices Dr.-Ing. Uwe-Peter Weigmann, board spokesman at WAFIOS AG.
Trade visitors from 135 countries in Düsseldorf
And from which countries did the trade visitors hail? The major producing coun- tries have also traditionally been where
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