Taking place next week (10-13 January), SteelFab 2022 will open its doors at the Expo Centre Sharjah, UAE, to a highly expectant crowd. Covering manufacturing segments that include machinery and tools, welding and cutting equipment, tube and pipe processing machines, and coatings and cladding, the 17th edition of the show builds on the last event in 2020, which welcomed around 7200 visitors from 70 countries.

At SteelFab 2020, over 300 exhibitors representing more than 1000 brands took their place across 26,000 sq m of floor space. Of the visitors, 51.7% attended in order to see new products and innovations, while 42.1% were looking to source new suppliers. Complementing the exhibition will be a specialised two-day conference catering to the steel fabrication industry, focusing on topics such as key learnings from the impact of Covid-19 on supply and demand, and process digitalisation.

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SteelFab enjoys a leading position in the MENA region, and is a name to reckon with globally among trade events dedicated to metal forming, fabricating, welding and finishing. Helping local industry weather the storms, as well as ride the waves, the event has become a vital wheel in the manufacturing sector that powers the region’s non-oil economy. The metal fabrication industry is evolving fast to keep up with modern trends and technologies, where the IoT and connected machinery are altering the regional landscape. Here, the 17th SteelFab will help better equip fabricators in the area to ride the tech wave.

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Rising oil prices and a growing regional economy has laid the perfect foundation for the 17th edition of SteelFab (10-13 January, Sharjah, UAE). A strong resurgence in the GCC’s economic growth prospects is fuelling growth of the region’s construction, which remains the biggest sector by project value, while infrastructure industries are the demand drivers of the local metalworking segment. Continuing infrastructure spending, stimulus packages, reforms and growth in the non-oil sector are also providing industry impetus.

SteelFab is the only dedicated trade fair of its kind and has provided consistent growth since its launch. The exhibition is the largest regional showcase of this type of technology, attracting visitors from across the globe (7200 from 70 countries at the last event in 2020). Notably, SteelFab enjoys strong support from industry associations and exhibitors can expect high sales, bookings and business leads.

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Via its Xpress rapid delivery service, Walter now offers its customers special tools delivered within four weeks, less than half the time it usually takes. Before now, customers were already able to order certain milling cutters, drills and indexable inserts via Walter Xpress. However, Walter is now adding grooving tools and cutting inserts to its range. As a result, the G1011 and G4011 monoblock grooving tools, and the double-edged and four-edged cutting inserts from the DX, GX and MX systems, are now available via the Walter Xpress service.

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In the presence of the President of France, Emmanuel Macron, and Sheikh Mohammed ben Zayed Al Nahyane, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Vice-Commander of the Armed Forces of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Eric Trappier, chairman and CEO of Dassault Aviation, signed a historical contract with Tareq Abdul Raheem Al Hosani, CEO of Tawazun Economic Council, for the acquisition of 80 Rafale F4 jets for the United Arab Emirates Air Force & Air Defence (UAE AF & AD).

Says Trappier: “This contract is excellent news for France and for its aerospace industry; for the entire ecosystem of 400 companies, both large and small, which contribute to Rafale. It represents thousands of guaranteed jobs in our sector for the coming decade. This contract, which is the largest ever obtained by the French military aerospace sector, consolidates a national industrial base that is, without doubt, unique in Europe.”

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