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Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 17 May 2002
50 years' celebration at Metalworking,
sales too
While celebrating 50 years of manufacturing sheetmetal equipment at Metalworking 2002 at the NEC in Birmingham, LVD of Belgium was able to add more than GBP 800,000 to its international sales.
While celebrating 50 years of manufacturing sheetmetal equipment at Metalworking 2002 at the NEC in Birmingham, LVD of Belgium was able to add more than GBP 800,000 to its international sales through the UK subsidiary LVD (UK) of Marlow Ivan Lockett, managing director said: "Despite attendance at the show being lower, the level of enquiries were a good 15 per cent higher than the last Metalworking show we attended in 1998
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 25 Jun 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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Also, the degree of interest shown by visitors and in-depth technical discussions were much stronger, indicating that the potential for orders in 2002 was very good." The level of interest on the LVD (UK) stand was confirmed with two PPEB multi-axis press brakes being sold at the show, one, the PPEB 8EF 135/30 show machine, was delivered from the stand to Sandwich, Kent-based subcontractor Stevens and Carlotti.
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