According to the IFO Business Climate Index, the mood among companies improved slightly in July. However, there is still a great deal of uncertainty when it comes to expectations. This is reflected not only in very cautious investment activity, but also in trade fair participation. The situation has now led the organiser of Parts Finishing 2025 to cancel the event planned for November.

Parts Finishing 2025 was set to launch with an innovative trade fair concept: presenting three topics under one roof over two days.

“Actually, we received a very positive response to this idea from the outset and, until about six weeks ago, had a promising number of registrations,” reports Nicolas Herdin, managing director of fair organiser fairXperts GmbH & Co KG. “In the meantime, however, various companies cancelled their registrations.”

The reasons vary. Cost-cutting measures are cited, as are the uncertain economic situation and difficulties in assessing the company’s business development. This situation has now prompted the trade fair organiser to cancel the event planned for 12-13 November 2025 at the Karlsruhe Exhibition Centre.

“Despite the financial losses, we believe this is a better alternative than holding an event that would ultimately leave both exhibitors and visitors dissatisfied,” adds Herdin.

The company management will now discuss the further development of Parts Finishing with the exhibitor advisory board and consider a new date for the trade fair.

“We believe it is fairer to both exhibitors and visitors to cancel this year’s trade fair and hold it successfully at a later date when conditions are more favourable,” he says.

More information www.fairexperts.de

Whether solvent or water-based cleaning, initial or final cleaning, or ultra-fine and high-purity cleaning, the tasks in parts cleaning have never been as varied as they are today. Ecoclean (Hall 10, Stand D36) will be presenting a complete product portfolio for these very different applications and requirements in the various industrial sectors at the Parts2Clean 2025 exhibition.

As a full-service provider of future-oriented, flexible and resource-efficient solutions for industrial component cleaning, Ecoclean and UCM will be presenting a tailored range of products and services at this year’s Parts2Clean on 7-9 October in Stuttgart.

Four cleaning systems will be on show. These include the new EcoCvario aqueous chamber system, which is equipped with PPC as standard and can therefore handle even very demanding cleaning tasks reliably and economically.

The cost-efficient and flexible EcoCcompact for solvent cleaning will be shown in the L version. Notably, this product family is available in three working chamber sizes, and batch weights of up to 150 kg and can be easily converted from hydrocarbon to modified alcohol. Adapted to the cleanliness requirements, these compact plug and play systems can be equipped with all process technologies available for solvent cleaning and for use in high-purity cleaning.

With the UCMIndexLine, the manufacturer is presenting a compact rotary indexing system. Equipped with six cleaning and rinsing stations – with and without ultrasound or PPC – almost all processes for aqueous-based precision cleaning can be mapped. The system was designed for cleaning small and compact components.

Ecoclean will also be exhibiting the UCMCombiLine, a modular ultrasonic cleaning system for low throughputs and high cleanliness requirements.

More information www.ecoclean-group.net