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TIMTOS x TMTS 2022, Taiwan’s first co-branded machine tool show

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TIMTOS x TMTS 2022, Taiwan’s largest first and only co-branded machine tool show, will be held in Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center, Hall 1 and 2 from February 21 to 26, 2022. A total of 900+ exhibitors will pack the exhibition halls with 5,200 booths. Notably, it will be not only the largest trade show in Taiwan since the outbreak of the pandemic, but one of the most significant events for the global machine tool industry in early 2022.

In an international press conference for TIMTOS x TMTS 2022 today, the organizers, James C. F. Huang, Chairman of TAITRA, Larry Wei, Chairman of TAMI and Wen-Hsien Hsu, Chairman of TMBA sat side by side with two industry giants, Jimmy Chu, Chairman of Fair Friend Group and Jui-Hsiung Yen, Chairman of TTGroup, making an insightful panel discussion on the theme “Impacts, Challenges and Opportunities for Global Machine Tool Industry after The Pandemic.”

Chairman Huang of TAITRA said that Taiwan plays a crucial role in supporting the global machine tool supply chain, as Taiwan is renowned for its customization and innovation. What’s more, Taiwan’s expertise in communications and information technology enable Taiwan machine tool manufacturers to develop the best solutions for end users around the world,. Huang also pointed out that the TIMTOS x TMTS mega show will be showcasing a wide array of R&D outputs of high profile manufacturing from Taiwan Team.

TAMI Chairman Wei added that the previous supply chain has been fundamentally changed since the global pandemic has created an opportunity for Taiwan players to explore new businesses in the post -pandemic era.

Meanwhile, Chairman Hsu, TMBA, encouraged continuous progression toward intelligent manufacturing, SaaS and interface unity. The co-branded event, TIMTS x TMTS 2022, will be another eye-catcher, right after Taiwan machine tool industry’s outstanding performance in helping fight against the pandemic with great success last year.

The emerging industries, for example, electric vehicles have caused great impacts on the global machine tool supply chain to date. Jimmy Chu, Chairman of Fair Friend Group and Jui-Hsiung Yen, Chairman of TTGroup shared options and experiences about enterprise transformation in the wake of such opportunities and challenges, which fully demonstrated Taiwan companies’ resilience and flexibility when dealing with the supply chain issues.

Aside from Fair Friend Group and TTGroup, key exhibitors at home and abroad include HIWIN, PMI, Victor Taichung, YLM, SOCO, SHINBU, KFO, CHMER, FANUC, MAZAK, YOU JI, TAKISAWA, YCM, TRUMPF, Delta, Mitsubishi, and Siemens.

The machinery industry has become Taiwan’s third trillion-dollar industry, second to the semiconductor and panel industries. Total exports of Taiwan machine tools from January to October this year reached US$2,245 billion, a phenomenal increase by 27.6% over the same period last year. With increasing COVID-19 vaccination rates and growing demands, it is expected that Taiwan machine tool industry exports will hit a new record in the next few months.

In response to border control, TIMTOS x TMTS 2022 will launch a lineup of online services and activities in conjunction with the physical exhibition, including On-site Guide for Online Visitors, Live Tour @ Showground, Live Stage for product launches, virtual display, and online 1-on-1 procurement meetings.

The online registration for TIMTOS x TMTS 2022 visitors is available on the official website www.timtos-tmts.com.tw. For updates on the latest, please visit the official website, or follow the shows on social media.

Positive edition for emo milano 2021: over 60,000 visitors and 91 represented countries.

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EMO MILANO 2021, the world trade show dedicated to the metalworking sector held at the Exhibition Centre of fieramilano Rho, closed last Saturday, 9 October.

Promoted by CECIMO, the European Association of Machine Tool Industries, and organised by the operational structures of UCIMU-SISTEMI PER PRODURRE, the Italian machine tools, robots and automation systems Manufacturers’ Association, EMO MILANO 2021 registered more than 60,000 visitors coming from 91 countries.

Luigi Galdabini, General Commissioner of EMO MILANO 2021, stated: “The exhibition data confirm the value of the event, considered as the appointment of reference for the worldwide manufacturing industry of machine tools, robots and automation systems”.

“In such a complicated, historic moment, where the public health emergency is not yet completely over – continued Luigi Galdabini – EMO showed its importance, drawing all those operators to Milan, who could have the green light to move from their countries of origin. Moreover, the participation of the operators, coming not only from Europe, also proves the attractiveness of Italy, regarded as one of the most interesting and promising markets, as well as a leading manufacturing country in the sector”.

Alfredo Mariotti, Director of the Exhibition, pointed out: “A very large number of exhibitors have expressed their full satisfaction with the results achieved over these six exhibition days. “Qualified and very motivated visitors”, “A duly organised trade show in all its details and not least those related to safety”: these are the most common expressions of appreciation received both from habitual exhibitors of the world metalworking trade show and from companies who did not have particular, previous participation experiences”.

“The work carried out by the EMOteam – concluded Director Alfredo Mariotti – has been appreciated by Italian and foreign operators, who also expressed their satisfaction on the social media, thus supporting the climate of trust that characterises the sector and regarded EMO MILANO 2021 as the event launching the post-pandemic era”.

Despite the mobility restrictions still in force, EMO MILANO confirmed its international character even on this occasion. Foreign exhibitors accounted for 60% of the total, whereas foreign visitors made up 30% of the overall number.

An absolute attraction for the operators of the world manufacturing industry was the wide product offering on show, representing all the segments of the sector, expression of the production proposal of over 700 enterprises, exhibited within 6 halls completely set up for the event and covering 100,000 square meters of overall exhibition area.

Germany, Switzerland, France, Spain, Austria, Slovenia, Turkey, Poland, Russia and Denmark were the most represented countries at the trade show, which was also attended by numerous operators from Finland, Croatia, Estonia, Lithuania, Hungary, Czech Republic, USA, Great Britain, Israel, Japan, South Korea, Ireland and Egypt.

Among the foreign visitors, there were also over 30 qualified foreign operators participating in the business missions organised by UCIMU-SISTEMI PER PRODURRE in cooperation with MAECI and ICE-Italian Trade Agency, as well as 30 members of an autonomous delegation from Turkey. The matching activity organised by UCIMU-SISTEMI PER PRODURRE has materialised into 1,200 meetings arranged at the stands of the Exhibitors that took part in the initiative.

Besides registering the users’ interest, EMO MILANO 2021 attracted the attention of the international press: about 400 accredited journalists, of whom 40% were from abroad.

Students also confirmed their interest for the event. Young visitors were 1,300, including students from Technical High Schools, Universities and ITS-Higher Technical Schools, who visited the exhibition accompanied by their teachers. Among them, 450 were escorted on guided tours by tutors of UCIMU- SISTEMI PER PRODURRE.

Beside the technology offering, EMO MILANO 2021 featured numerous side initiatives, such as EMO Digital, the exhibition area focused on digital technologies; EMO Additive Manufacturing, dedicated to one of the most promising fields of the manufacturing production; EMO Start-Up, which offered an overlook of new enterprises working on the development of products and projects related to the world of production systems and metalworking.

A novelty of EMO MILANO 2021 was the Speakers Corner, the arena set up in Hall 5, which proposed over 80 speeches and in-depth analyses and discussions by exhibitors and organisers. In addition, 20 meetings were hosted within the EMO ADDITIVE area, arranged by AITA-ITALIAN ASSOCIATION OF ADDITIVE TECHNOLOGIES. Over 2,000 attendees registered for the meetings, in addition to about 3,000 remotely connected users (for an average of 500 users per day), who, over the six exhibition days, were able to follow the events held at the trade show thanks to the live streaming service.

The interest in the exhibition is highlighted also by the consultation statistics of the exhibition website. Over 800,000 views were recorded on emo-milano.com: from Italy, Germany and Switzerland, followed by the USA, France, Spain and Japan.

These figures are added to the 600,000 views registered on the Smart Catalog, the official catalogue of the exhibition, viewed mainly by mobile phones.

The social community of EMO MILANO reported a remarkable growth, from 2,770 users in 2015 to 9,440 followers recorded on 10 October 2021.

Among all Exhibition profiles – Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn – LinkedIn had the highest activity. In the period 13 September 2021 – 10 October 2021, there were over 23,000 page views (+809%), about 7,500 single users for 330,000 views of the posts published on the official profile of the trade show.

The next edition of EMO MILANO will take place in October 2027.

A lot of movement in the wire, cable, tube and pipe industry:  wire 2022 and Tube 2022 experience a lot of tailwind from their industries

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Since March 2021, companies wishing to present their machinery, equipment, services and products at the world’s leading trade fairs wire and Tube, which will be held in Düsseldorf from May 9 to 13, 2022, have been able to register with Messe Düsseldorf. It is already clear that the industries are committed to the No. 1 trade fairs. The response is good and the wire and Tube project team is confident that both trade fairs will once again present themselves as the international industry events in 2022. Planning for both trade shows will begin on June 30, 2021, which is also the official registration deadline for interested companies. Old exhibitors who would like to book their traditional space again should register before the registration deadline.

“Personal dialog with our exhibitors is what defines us as Messe Düsseldorf,” Daniel Ryfisch, Project Director of the world’s leading trade fairs wire, Tube and VALVE WORLD EXPO and their international satellites in China, Thailand, Brazil, Russia and India. He is looking forward to walking through well-filled exhibition halls again next year and welcoming guests from all over the world. The wire 2022 will take place in exhibition halls 9 to 17, the Tube in halls 1 to 7a.

Made in Steel 2021 beyond expectations: steel rebirth and new beginning

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The ninth edition of Made in Steel, the main Conference & Exhibition in Southern Europe for the steel industry, organised by siderweb – the steel community, has exceeded expectations.

From 5 to 7 October, the event, entitled “RENAISSANCE – Here begins the steel rebirth”, at fieramilano Rho hosted 184 exhibitors, of which 22 coming from abroad, on an exhibition area of about 10,000 square metres. Foreign exhibitors represented a total of 15 countries. Attendance totalled 13,505, from 68 countries.

Digital MIS – Expoplaza, Made in Steel 2021 digital platform supporting business, a virtual meeting place for visitors and exhibitors, and the www.madeinsteel.it website, were accessed by a total of 42,679 users, generating 134,086 page hits.

Also the social channels of the event (Facebook, Instagram and Linked-in) performed very well, generating more than 80,000  hits during the three days of the event.

Siderweb TV, the channel specifically conceived for this edition of Made in Steel, streamed more than 20 hours of conferences live from the siderweb Conference Room, featuring interviews with the protagonists of the steel supply chain, as well as in-depth analyses and institutional videos by exhibitors. The siderweb YouTube channel was viewed more than 7,000 times.

Made in Steel was the first international event in attendance for the steel industry in the world since the outbreak of the pandemic. It offered the protagonists of the steel value chain, operators, exhibitors and visitors a packed agenda of high-level conferences, with over 30 national and international speakers, amongst whom Alec Ross, innovation advisor to the Obama administration. On Wednesday 6 October, Made in Steel hosted the annual meeting of Federacciai.

“Numbers speak for themselves and I was amazed by the turnout. It was an exciting three days: there were great expectations and a burning desire to meet, but also the willingness to understand where the steel sector is going. Our industry is in the middle of an earthquake, with rising prices, shortage of raw materials, soaring energy costs and tariffs. All these issues were discussed in depth during the ninth edition of Made in Steel. Once again, the event proved to be a safe harbour for operators of the supply chain, a place to do business and exchange views: it is a compass providing orientation amidst the powerful tides that are rocking our market and a radar to intercept future trends,” said Emanuele Morandi, president and managing director of Made in Steel.

The tenth edition of Made in Steel will be held in 2023.

Column number 83 – 2021

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Positive outlook for European economy gives back a significant contrast with fears for worldwide increasing pandemic. The positive trend in machine tools sector during 2021 is extremely encouraging: recent data indicates that CECIMO’s MT output in 2021 is expected to grow at an annual rate of about 11.5%, reaching 22.5 billion euros in 2021. With a share of about 33%, CECIMO countries will maintain the number 1 position in the global MT market. Despite the uncertainty in pandemic, there is need of normality that develops itself in a fibrillation in economy and industry, with the decisive effects coming from economic contribution from governments, aimed at a compensative trend to negative effects of various lockdowns.

These are, in general, the best perspectives that design a good framework for Tube 2022, that will be held in Düsseldorf from May 9th to 13th, and remains the outstanding event for tube sector. After the postponement and following cancellation of 2020 edition, the growth of the MT sector gave impetus to the new edition that has already acquired the participation of a large number among the main companies. The European market in MT sector is pulled up by export: Total MT exports and MT imports to increase by 12% and 13% retrospectively on a year-over-year basis. Germany, Italy and Switzerland remain the major CECIMO exporters and the two major MT export destinations outside Europe are China and the United States. Japan, China and the Taiwan region remain the major MT supplying markets for CECIMO countries (outside Europe). It is important to underline that the effects of a rough rise of pandemic can have a deep impact on the forecast for 2022: the uncertainty of new virus variants and new measures issued by governments can change the situation and slower the growth. Another critical element are supplies: supply chain denotates many bottlenecks and the growth of the quotation for scrap is indicative in this sense.

In Italy, the growth is faster than in every other European country: in 2021 production reached 6,325 million euro, marking a 22.1% upturn compared with the previous year. The outcome was due to the excellent trend of Italian manufacturers’ deliveries in the domestic market, increased by 27.8% to 2,965 million euro, as well as to the positive performance of exports, achieving 3,360 million euro, i.e. 17.4% more than in the previous year. This trend should continue even in 2022, the year when all the ground lost in 2020 should be recovered. With a double-sided expectations for the near future, we face a holidays period easier than one year ago: economic trends and vaccination campaign give us the idea of a more positive overall situation. If one year ago we were in a negative moment with many expectations for the future, now the feeling is of a positive situation with some remaining shadows. And it is already a good result. From the editorial staff, the management and myself, I want to send you, everywhere you are and everything you are doing, the best wishes of serenity and joy for the holidays and new year: I hope to see you all in 2022, stronger and safer than ever, with more confidence in the future and in an economic growth that will take everyone out of the crisis.

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