Wire 2010 and Tube 2010, the most important trade fairs for the wire, cable and tube processing industries will be open in four weeks.
The most important producers in the industry are expected at the trade fairs, presenting forward-looking technologies, current techniques and latest services in the exhibition halls on the Rhine from 12 to 16 April. Düsseldorf was chosen as location for the International Wire and Cable Trade Fair (wire) and the International Tube and Pipe Trade Fair (Tube) for the twelfth time. The wire industry has great hopes for the 2010 fair, after a rough 2009. Both trade fairs are leaders in their fields and have succeeded in increasing their exhibitor numbers over the record year 2008!
For wire 2010, there are 1,216 companies registered over 52,000 square meters of exhibition space! The figure represents a 7.1% increase of exhibitors. Wire loses in terms of area occupied, with just under 1,400 square meters, 2.8 % lower that 2008.
wire 2010 will display exhibits ranging from wire manufacturing and finishing machinery to process engineering tools and auxiliaries not forgetting raw materials and special wires. Present at the fair will also be innovations from the areas of cable, measuring and control technology as well as test engineering. Specialist areas such as logistics, conveying systems and packaging round off the ranges that occupy the exhibition Halls 9 to 12 and 15 to 17.
Segmentation in Halls 15 to 17 is totally new: the Fastener Technology will be featured with latest technologies in Hall 15. In parts of Hall 16 the latest processes in Spring Making will be on show.
Applications related to wire and cable, wire and cable machinery as well as fiberglass machines will be displayed in Halls 9 to 12 and 16 to 17.
