Green light for Moulding Expo

07.11.2016

The new „living room“ for tool, pattern and mould making opens its doors

today / 619 exhibitors are guests in Stuttgart

The new „living room“ for tool, pattern and mould making opens its doors
today / 619 exhibitors are guests in Stuttgart



Messe Stuttgart only began planning Moulding Expo a year ago. The trade fair
organisers did not expect such a strong market response – the exhibition area is
fully booked for the première event. "The way things look today it would seem
that we have done everything right", states Ulrich Kromer von Baerle, President of
Messe Stuttgart. "This is also due to the fact that we were able to acquire the four
strong industry associations as professional and conceptual supporters for the
content development and alignment of the trade fair concept." A success story
was written together with the German Tool and Mould Makers Association
(VDWF), the Federal Association of Model and Mouldmaking (MF), the German
Engineering Federation (VDMA) and the German Machine Tool Builders'
Association (VDW).

At the opening event on the evening before the trade fair started, Franz
Untersteller, State Minister for the Environment, Climate and Energy, praised this
achievement: “I hope that today a new era is starting. It makes sense for this trade
fair to take place here in Baden-Württemberg, where many of the companies are
located.“
Dr. Oliver Blume, Director of Production and Logistics at Porsche AG and keynote
speaker on the evening, described in detail the contribution that the “hidden
champions“ are making for the innovative power of the industry and underlined
their great significance for Porsche and the entire automobile industry: “It is
precisely the highly innovative and efficient supplier companies for tools and
plants that have made a decisive contribution to the worldwide success of the
German automobile brands and the quality seal ‘made in Germany‘. Many of these companies, most of which are family-run businesses, are located in
Baden-Württemberg.“
The success in figures 619 exhibitors occupy the 31,500 square metres of the three available halls at the Stuttgart trade fair centre. "We are practically bursting at the seams", states Kromer von Baerle. "And what could be more pleasing than constantly having to revise the expected exhibitor figures upwards." Fact: It is rare to experience such a positive event première at Messe Stuttgart.

However, for the organisers of Moulding Expo it is not only about the quantity of
exhibitors and booked area: The trade fair planning is designed to be sustainable.

Approximately one third of the companies showcasing here come from the core
area of tool, pattern and mould making. The Moulding Expo should develop into
the central meeting place for the industry in the coming years – both for the
strong local market, as well as for the European and global market. Messe
Stuttgart's boss is confident that it will succeed: "With the ideally interlinked offers
for Control and KSS, we are creating the basis for synergy effects in all directions.
With our formula for success, we will now organise the central exhibition for
German tool, pattern and mould making in Stuttgart every two years."
Companies from the following sectors are exhibiting at Moulding Expo 2015:
• Tool, pattern and mould making: 31% of exhibitors
• Components and accessories: 18% (materials, standard components, mould
units, hot runner systems, hydraulic cylinders, machines for handling tools, moulds and materials, etc.)
• Machine tools, cutting and processing tools, automation, workpiece and tool
handling technology, measuring technology, special purpose machines: 27%
• Software: 11%
• Systems for additive manufacturing: 3%
• Contract manufacturing and services: 11%