Lamiera, a business not to be missed

In Bologna, in May 2008, the international showcase of the Metal forming sector Well-established as one of the most qualified international trade shows for the manufacturing sector of metal forming machines, LAMIERA will launch its fourteenth edition in the exhibition complex of Fiera di Bologna, from 14 to 17 May 2008.

Besides an exhaustive overview of the world’s supply, the exhibition promoted by UCIMU-SISTEMI PER PRODURRE, the Italian Machine Tools, Robots and Automation Manufacturers’ Association will present a new version of Lambda, centred on “RTDI-in-Forming: research, technological development and innovation”, and will give space to the debate of the topical subjects of greatest interest for the sector.

The 2008 edition of this trade show organized by CEU-CENTRO ESPOSIZIONI UCIMU will thus be able to attract the attention of the worldwide user-industry on its exhibitors, proposing itself as an opportunity not to be missed to establish new, more profitable, technical-commercial relations.

In 2006, LAMIERA was visited by 23,215 operators, 6% of whom came to Bologna from abroad: European Community, non-EU European countries, Americas, Africa, Middle East, Asia, for a total of 71 countries. Production of machinery (37.6%), metal constructions (26.6%) and various mechanics (22.5%) resulted to be the most represented operational fields before automotive (6.5%), electrical household appliances (3.9%), energy (1.9%) and aeronautics (1%).

The protagonists of the 2006 edition of LAMIERA were 528 enterprises that requested an exhibition surface of 25,549 sq m. Besides the large Italian attendance, a particularly strengthened exhibitors’ participation came from Germany (76 exhibitors), Switzerland (19), USA (18), Great Britain (11), Holland (11) and France (10). Among the foreign companies (27% of the total), there were also exhibitors from Japan, Turkey. Spain, Finland, Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Bulgaria, China, Denmark, Ireland, Israel, Slovenia, South Korea and Sweden.

Among the exhibited products, the most numerous turned out to be: sheet metal cutting machines, sheet metal forming machines, welding and oxygen-cutting machines, equipment and materials, presses, bars-, sections- and pipes-processing machines, services for enterprises, sheet metal shearing and punching machines, robots.
 
The promotion of the fourteenth edition of LAMIERA will be set out in a series of initiatives that, developing synergically, will be able to draw the interest of the whole universe of metal forming machines’ end-users.

In particular, the advertising campaign will be developed by insertions and advertising editorial articles in the most qualified Italian and foreign specialized trade magazines of the sector, starting from the end of 2007. Journalists of the most important publishers will be visiting LAMIERA, as well as the operators from the chief user-countries, invited to take part in targeted meetings with Italian exhibitors as guests of UCIMU-SISTEMI PER PRODURRE and ICE (Italian Institute for Foreign Trade).

Pre-registration, which is possible through the exhibition website (www.lamiera.net), will enable visitors to receive a free permanent entrance card according to the modalities described online. The application forms, to be sent to the organizers within 16 November 2007, are available on the website www.lamiera.net, together with the participation modalities. Financing plans for participation costs at extremely favourable rates are available (www.probest.it) for Italian exhibitors.