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News Release from: UCIMU
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 19 October 2006
Bi-Mu machine tool show attracts 96,000
visitors
The 25th Bi-Mu/SFORTEC exhibitions, held in Milan, Italy, last week reports attendance of over 96,000 visitors - a good 20% more than in the previous show two years ago.
25th Italian Bi-Mu/SFORTEC machine tools and production equipment show met with a great success of attendance The event, promoted by UCIMU-Sistemi per Produrre, took place from 5 to 10 October 2006, in the new fairground of Fiera Milano
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 3 Mar 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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Over 96,000 visitors have been registered at the show, i e, a good 20% more than in the previous edition.
The exhibition, proposing the offer of machine tools, robots, automation and relevant auxiliary products (NC, tools, components and accessories), along with a wide overview of technical sub-contracting, reaffirms its importance as a meeting occasion that cannot be renounced by the operators of the manufacturing industry who flocked to Milan from all over the world.
Indeed, more than 5,000 foreign visitors from 82 countries, 25% more than in the 2004 edition, entered the Bi-Mu/SFORTEC event.
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Bi-Mu show covers latest machine tools
This year's Italian machine tool and production equipment show - the Bi-Mu - will take place in Milan's new exhibition centre located on the outskirts of the city.
Sheet metal working show set in Italy, 2006
Latest Europe-wide developments in sheet metal handling, forming, welding and finishing will be shown at the Italian 'Lamiera' event in Bologna, in May 2006.
Some 400 companies to exhibit at Lamiera
Some 400 companies have registered for stands at the forthcoming Italian sheet metal work and fabrication show, Lamiera 2006, from Europe, Middle east and the USA.
This result confirms and emphasizes the international character of this show, whose protagonists were 1771 exhibiting companies, of which 42% were from abroad and represented 30 countries.
Proposed on a net exhibition surface of over 66,000m2 in the functional, state-of-the-art Fiera Milano exhibition complex, the supply on show, also for this 2006 edition, concerned all fields: from metal forming and cutting to automation, witnessing the comprehensiveness of the event, capable of offering a complete production overview of the entire sector.
Bi-Mu, which exhibited around 4,000 machines, for a total value of EUR 350 million, has been the stage for the promotion action of the sector 'Made by Italians', planned by ICE (Italian Institute for Foreign Trade) with UCIMU-Sistemi per Produrre.
This initiative implied the organization of a cycle of meetings between Italian exhibitors and user-enterprises from all over the world.
As usual, the biennial machine tool exhibition has been accompanied with SFORTEC, the show of technical sub-contracting, components and structural machining, promoted by CIS-COMITATO Interassociativo Subfornitura (Interassociative Sub-Contracting Committee), which saw the participation of 78 exhibitors.
Numerous supplementary events have been organized with the purpose of increasing the participation value of all the operators gathered in Milan.
From the specialized shows, such as 'The World of Welding', AMMTECH: 'The World of Assembly' and 'The World of Moulds and Dies', to the conferences of 'Quality Bridge' addressed to the analysis of the subjects of greatest interest for the sector operators.
From the documentary film 'Bi-Mu - Half a Century on Show' that, through a sequence of images from the past, told the history of the exhibition and of the sector industry to Pianeta Giovani (Planet of the Young).
This usual appointment, intended to encourage the meeting between the young people and the industry of production systems, recorded the participation of some thousand students invited by the Association of Italian machine tool, robot and automation manufacturers.
The greatest change for the next Bi-Mu/SFORTEC, scheduled to take place from 3 to 7 October 2008, will be the concentration of the exhibition period.
In reply to the requests of the exhibitors, who wish to exploit their participation in the show to the utmost, starting from 26th Bi-Mu/SFORTEC, the biennial machine tool exhibition will have a new length.
Concentrated into five days, the show will fall into line with the most important exhibitions of the sector.
The first among all of them will be EMO, which, from the next edition (Hanover 2007), will have a six-day length.
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