Today, as industrialists are increasingly willing to leave the memory of Covid-19 behind, it is undeniable that the pandemic has forever changed many aspects of commercial life. More communication and business took place online as face-to-face meetings were not possible during Covid-related restrictions. This also affected exhibitions such as Metalex, the ASEAN region’s leading machine tool and metalworking exhibition.

“The last full-scale Metalex event was held in 2020, with Covid-19 preventing us from organising the show in 2021,” says Sirirat Sungvichai, exhibition management director of RX Tradex (formerly Reed Tradex). “However, when the government allowed large-scale events again, we created a special edition of the event called ‘Metalex March’ in March 2022, which was a huge success. It showed that everyone in the metalworking community wanted to meet their colleagues and experience new machinery and technologies with their own eyes.

“One factor that helps businesses grow and become successful is networking, whether it’s a network of customers, suppliers or business partners,” she continues. “Therefore, when the pandemic started to improve, we started aiming for Metalex (to be held on 16-19 November 2022 at BITEC, Bangkok) to make a grand comeback. We want to make this event a meeting place for everyone in the metalworking industry to come expand their networks in the ASEAN region.”

Sungvichai goes on to say that it will be an event where everyone gets to improve production efficiency together, add value to their products, and generate business opportunities that will foster growth. Over 85,000 participants from all over the region will get to experience over 2500 brands of metalworking technologies, and meet with representatives at international pavilions from Germany, India, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Singapore and the Republic of China (Taiwan). What is even more exciting is that some technologies will appear for the first time in the ASEAN region at Metalex.

In addition to the machinery and technology exhibition, Metalex will host concurrent seminars on a variety of up-and-coming topics such as AI, smart materials and many more. Interested participants can pre-register online.
For further information www.metalex.co.th

The world’s leading trade exhibition for the sheet metalworking industry is back and opens its doors this week (25-28 October) at the Hanover Exhibition Grounds in Germany. A total of 1300 exhibitors from 39 countries are ready to showcase their latest manufacturing solutions covering a total net exhibition space of 88,000 sq m.

Reflected in this year’s motto ‘Your gateway to a smarter future’, EuroBLECH 2022 focuses on intelligent solutions and the ongoing automation and digitalisation of the manufacturing chain to enable greater output and efficiency. Furthermore, a new presentation area will deliver around 20 sessions across the four exhibition days, offering insight into innovative companies and projects, interesting discussions and valuable networking opportunities.
For further information www.euroblech.com

Cutting tool specialist Ceratizit presented its ambitious sustainability strategy at the AMB 2022 exhibition in Stuttgart last month. The aim of this strategy is to make the company the leader in sustainability for the hard metal and cutting tool industry by 2025. In order to reduce its own carbon footprint quickly, Ceratizit is focusing on three major levers: an increase in the use of secondary raw materials to over 95%; switching all sites to green electricity from wind, solar and hydropower in the next few years; and switching to the use of blue hydrogen for production, which is produced from water by electrolysis with green electricity.

The first milestone in the implementation of the new strategy is 2025, by which time Ceratizit plans to be CO2 neutral, entailing a reduction in actual emissions of 35% compared with the reference year 2020. The second stage, 2030, envisages a reduction of 60% in comparison with 2020, while the most ambitious goal is to achieve net zero by 2040.
For further information www.bit.ly/3SejLmh

Maktek Eurasia 2022 opens its doors this week (26 September to 1 October), delivering the 7th edition of this biennial international trade fair for machine tools, cutting tools, metrology solutions and CADCAM software. Taking place at the Tüyap Fair Convention and Congress Center in Istanbul, the last show in 2018 (cancelled in 2020 due to the pandemic) attracted 56,526 visitors from 89 countries.

This year’s exhibition will showcase technologies for manufacturing industries that include machine building, automotive, mould and die, defence, aerospace, metals and domestic appliance. The show will take place across 14 halls covering 120,000 sq m of exhibition space. Around 1000 exhibitors from 30 countries will be in attendance.
For further information https://maktekfuari.com/en/