Presentation of industry events

Industry will thrive at the Bilbao Exhibition Centre from 6th to 8th June thanks to the parallel hosting of Ferroforma, Subcontratación, Addit3D, Pumps & Valves Maintenance and Fitmaq, along with Workinn and Polveri & ecoCoating, another two events related to the industrial sectors. Over 1200 exhibiting firms from all over the world will participate in this great platform, which will be inspired on the principles of Industry 4.0 to offer innovations in key sectors such as additive manufacturing and 3D printing, industrial subcontracting, hardware, industrial supplies and DIY, pumps and valves, maintenance, second-hand machine-tooling and industrial jobs.

The sum of these six events in a single space will offer a full journey through the most advanced industry, where visiting professionals are will be able to find customised solutions in manufacturing processes, the latest technologies, supplies and tools, as well as equipment for industrial processes and products for the maintenance of assets and facilities. It will be the biggest meeting point devoted to Smart Manufacturing which will be held in our country this year, and in which commercial exhibitions will be combined with technical seminars, live presentations, workshops and international programmes of B2B meetings in Halls 1,2,3 and 5 of the Basque exhibition centre.

Over 18,500 professionals from 65 countries came to this multiple meeting in 2015, when the sum of industrial events promoted very interesting synergies and fostered new channels of collaboration between different sectors and companies. This year, industry will be consolidated with even more force, if possible, with the incorporation of Workinn, industrial job forum, Polveri & ecoCoating, space devoted to surface coatings, and Addit3D, fair devoted to additive manufacturing technologies and 3D printing, whose advance is unstoppable.

FERROFORMA: companies are committed to “the sector’s meeting point”

“Forming part of what is considered to be the meeting point of the year, presenting new products to existing and potential clients in the domestic and export markets, establishing “quality” contacts, sharing ideas on the transformation of the market and discovering first hand the needs of clients to come up with individual strategies focused on them, and coinciding with professional users from other industrial sectors” are some of the arguments that companies have indicated to participate in Ferroforma. Over 429 exhibiting firms from 25 countries will be present at the event this year, where they will display their most innovative hardware, industrial supply and DIY products and services.

Therefore, the companies join in the invitation of the event’s “revolution tools” claim, with new and smart solutions and advanced commercial solutions that will undoubtedly bring access to new international markets and client profiles. Industrial supply, manual tools, locksmith and security fittings companies are those who will be most represented at the event, followed by bindings, hardware and home, and occupational protection. In the exhibition area, supply firms for construction, electro-hand tools for wood, electricity and lighting, decoration, textile and drugstore, gardening and car accessories will also be participating. As for their origins, it is worth highlighting the participation of exhibitors from Germany, Italy, United Kingdom, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland, India and Turkey.

This year, the fair will be offering a specific meeting area for manufacturers and locksmiths, coordinated by APECS, Spain’s Association of Locksmithing and Security Professionals, in which 35 companies will be participating. The “APECS Area” will include spaces for demonstrations, meetings and technical training.

Purchasers from 32 countries

The Ferroforma visitor’s campaign also reflects positive data. On the international scene, participation of purchasers from a total of 32 countries of great interest for the sector has been conformed, of which Argentina, Colombia, South Korea, United States, France, Iran, Morocco, Mexico, Nigeria, Peru and Portugal can be highlighted. This year, as a new thing in Spain, Ferroforma has invited around fifty final clients within the framework of the purchasers programme, or in other words, those responsible for industrial supply companies and hardware stores. Finally, the leading national purchasing groups, cooperatives and large hardware stores will be present at Ferroforma, whereby they have been actively working in recent months in its promotion campaigns.

Innovation will therefore be one of the axes of the Ferroforma Conferences, which will present a programme focused on e-commerce and many of the aspects related to its implementation. Trends in the digital era, business strategies related to consumer knowledge, choice of sales channels and analysis of client communication through new media will be some of the topics that will be analysed by companies like Black T, Barrabes, KPMG, Leroy Merlin Spain, El Corte Inglés, Pepsicola Company, MATMAX-Grupo Telematel, Cofares and Tu&Co.

Furthermore, Ferroforma will once more be a dynamic meeting point with numerous spaces in which to interact and discover the most interesting products, innovations and market trends in very different ways. In this section, the 2nd B2B meetings can be highlighted. Following the success of its first edition, Ferroforma has organised these Encounters following the same approach, although the “matchmaking” has been carried out directly between exhibitors and visitors this year. In total, around 400 meetings between exhibiting companies and purchasers from the “hosted buyer’s programme” will be handled.

The 3rd Innovation and Design Awards will recognise the products or services that respond brilliantly to innovation criteria in the market, efficiency and material quality, recyclability, new uses and applications, packaging quality, easy to use, accessibility of the design, maintenance and storage. Around 30 companies have participated in the competition with new smart security systems, high performance machinery in maintenance and cleaning, new cutting tools or the latest generation screws with high mechanical and anti-corrosive properties, among other products. The award ceremony will be held on Wednesday 7th June.

The Inventions Showroom of the Spanish Association of Inventors will once more showcase its innovations in hardware, DIY and industrial supply in order to find partners to launch its products onto the market. This year, in the exhibition area, visitors will be able to see a tubular structures knotting construction system, a backflow device for sink plumbing and pipes in general, a trunk cutting machine, a system of folding bars to secure windows and doors in spaces with children, equipment for the automated control of stocks or a security device with a hidden lock, among other products. Finally, Ferroforma has incorporated a “passport” of orders and visits to stands, which will be stamped in accordance with orders and commercial interviews, and once completed, it will offer the opportunity to participate in different prize draws.

Ferroforma includes the collaboration of AFEB, Association of DIY and Hardware Manufacturers, and ESKUIN, Hardware and Industrial Supply Cluster.

Name: FERROFORMA, International Hardware, DIY and Industrial Supplies Fair

Edition No.: 22nd

Dates: 6 to 8 June 2017

Halls: 1 and 3

Organised by: Bilbao Exhibition Centre

Web site: www.ferroforma.eu

SUBCONTRATACIÓN: customised processes and equipment for smart manufacturing

Within the framework of advanced manufacturing, SUBCONTRATACIÓN has positioned itself as the reference forum for those professionals seeking to make direct contact with suppliers that are more flexible, rapid, innovative and adapted to the digital era, offering specific solutions to their projects, using the latest technology in the manufacture of components, parts and systems. A total of 503 exhibiting firms from 19 countries will participate in the event, the only one in Spain devoted to industrial subcontracting. 80% of these companies are subcontractors related to the different manufacturing processes and 20% are suppliers of machinery and equipment. Between them, they cover all of the needs of the production chain, essentially in the areas of machining, casting, metal transformation, heat treatments, plastics, moulds and matrices.

The incorporation of “productive intelligence” – making use of emerging technologies, integration of advanced materials and improved efficiency and sustainability in the resources used – will determine the competitiveness of companies, so the event will offer responses with increased added value through the leading national and international specialists from countries like Portugal, Italy or France.

Business Opportunities for SMEs

Furthermore, different spaces support Subcontratación’s claim of “connecting companies, optimising processes”, whose main goal is to turn challenges into business opportunities for SMEs. In this section, the European Industrial Subcontracting Meeting, the largest B2B platform of the many held in the national sphere, can be highlighted. 80% of the exhibitors participating in the fair have been registered in this programme of interviews, in order to set up private meetings with representatives from around 100 contracting companies from France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, Poland, Spain, Austria, United Kingdom and Serbia, among other countries. In total, over 2,000 meetings will be held over the three days.

The first day will be devoted to purchasers from the railway, iron and steel industry, energy, electrical-electronic and machinery sectors; whilst the second day will target he automotive industry; and the final day is for aeronautics and additive manufacturing. The Meeting is organised by the Chamber of Commerce of Barcelona with the collaboration of the Network of Spanish Subcontracting Exchanges and the Bilbao Exhibition Centre.

Subcontratación will also offer a programme of conferences in which it is worth mentioning ACICAE “Automotive Sector: trends and advanced manufacturing”, the 9th International Casting Forum and the “Workshop on digitalisation in Industry” by Tecnalia.

Finally, industrial coatings will have a monographic space at Subcontratación 2017 for the first time ever, which will bring highly specialised technologies and services to all companies related to industrial manufacturing. Polveri &ecoCoating will combine the exhibition area in which 21 companies will be present, with a programme of highly technological conferences. The exhibition will be the meeting point and a place for commercial exchange for suppliers of machinery, equipment, consumables and services in the sector. The conferences will analyse technological development related to the application of coatings for the automotive, aeronautics, wind power, aerospace sectors and major works from three points of view: the general sectorial, that of processes in the different stages of pre-treatment, application and maturing, and that of new markets for this kind of coatings: anti-corrosive applications for heat sensitive materials, quality guarantees. Polveri & ecoCoating is organised by Reconal Ediciones and Bilbao Exhibition Centre and is sponsored by Pulverit, Intellysys, Geinsa and Nordson.

Name: SUBCONTRATACIÓN, International Fair of Manufacturing Processes and Equipment

Edition No.: 18th

Dates: 6 to 8 June 2017

Hall: 5

Organised by: Bilbao Exhibition Centre

Web site: www.subcontratacionbilbao.com

ADDIT3D: A key space for the future of industry

The additive manufacturing and 3D printing sector is experiencing rapid growth with technological developments that have already positioned it prominently in the field of Industry 4.0, transforming production processes of the so-called Fourth Industrial Revolution. Clients are demanding high quality and personalised products, with a reduced production time. In this context, ADDIT3D, the only solely professional trade fair focusing on this field in Spain, is reinforced as a key space to seek specific applications for those professionals in the initial phase of incorporating this technology and those working with it but who need more advanced developments.

With 87 exhibiting firms, the International Trade Show on Additive and 3D Manufacturing has exceeded all participation expectations and surface area established for 2017. In just two editions, the event has evolved at breakneck speed, in parallel with the sector itself, which is gaining in intensity and complexity. Indeed, innovation in additive manufacturing and 3D presented by the companies this year reveal and increasingly wider use of these new technologies and they are mainly related to materials, applications and equipment.

Among the innovative products registered in the Directory, the following stand out:Prodysol 3D CPI-02 PRO printer equipped with two headers, offering the possibility to print in two colours or in different materials; the PLA Luminescent by Electronshark, 12 times stronger than a normal PLA; the PVA water soluble filament by Electronshark; the new Stratasys J750 Printer by Pixel Sistemas, which allows the use of many full colour materials, the Stratasys F370 Printer by Comher, for the production of precise and reliable prototypes for the verification of concepts, validation of the design and verification of their functional performance functional; the new Onyx filament, with carbon fibre to improve the finish, by Markforged presented by AyS, the global solution for Additive Manufacturing Engineers and Additive Manufacturing Programmers integrated with the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform by T-SYSTEMS Iberia & Dassault Systémes the Jet Fusion Printer by HP with exclusive technology, which provides high quality physical pieces, up to ten times faster and at half the cost of other traditional 3D printing methods. Leading companies with extensive experience in the equipment sector will participate in the exhibition with printers and additive manufacturing machines manufacturers of parts and software companies, consumables and applications and entities related to research and development.

The technical conferences will address the great challenges and trends of the sector, analysing specific applications in extremely diverse fields. Around 30 speakers from innovative companies in the sector will present the latest on new strategies in the design and manufacture of complex parts, new applications in 3D printing and advances towards digitalisation thanks to 3D printing. Topics of interest such as “Biomodels for Surgery”, “The applications of additive manufacturing in the footwear industry”, “Additive manufacturing in Industry 4.0: digitalisation of factories”, “Use of laser applications in the repair and manufacture of moulds and matrices”, “Use of additive polymeric components in nano satellites”, among others are included in the programme.

Name: ADDIT3D, International Trade Show on Additive and 3D Manufacturing

Edition No.: 2nd

Dates: 6 to 8 June 2017

Hall: 5

Organised by: ADDIMAT and Bilbao Exhibition Centre

Web site: www.addit3d.es

PUMPS & VALVES: quality visitors focus the event’s commercial strategy

The Pumps & Valves commercial team has developed a strategy that is focused on visiting professionals, thanks to which the list of visiting companies registered for the event includes firms from all of the sectors to which the fair is aimed, large user companies and engineering firms and multinationals working on a global level. They include leading companies, such as Pepsico Manufacturing, Repsol, Enagas, Galletas Artiach, Air Liquide, CNN La Naval, Vidrala, ArcelorMittal, EDP Naturgas, Unilever Foods Industrial, Maxam, CLH, Petronor, Técnicas Reunidas, Acciona Agua, Tamoin, Elecnor, Cadagua, Iberdrola Ingeniería y Construcción, Initec, Cobra and Sener. The main fields of interest marked by these companies on their registration forms are industrial pumps and control valves, followed by valves, processing equipment, technology and metering, testing and control and sealing equipment.

They will all be the main sectors of the exhibition, in which 82 exhibiting firms will be participating. Furthermore, Pumps & Valves will once more be committed to combining the exhibition area with seminars and other spaces for professional exchange. On the first day of conferences, speakers from engineering firms and EPCs will talk about their investment strategies and projects in the medium term. “Internationalisation of Innovation: experience of the engineering sector” will be the title of the talks in which companies like Worley Parson, Amec Foster Wheeler, Técnicas Reunidas, ITAC, Idom, Gas Natural, KPMG and Sener, among others, are expected to participate. The second day will focus on more technical questions with speakers from ISA, Tetra Pak, ABB. Both days will share two common elements: the prevalence of the point of view of the user and the definition of contents based on an interest survey between professionals participating in the event.

As a new thing, the Pumps & Valves programme will include “Innovation Workshops” in which exhibiting firms will briefly present their products and solutions, highlighting their most innovative and technologically advanced component.

At Pumps & Valves, there will be an exhibition of the winning photographs in the 3rd edition of PHOTOINGENIA, the International Engineering and Architecture Photography Competition, organised by Tecniberia, Spanish Association of Engineering Consultancy and Technological Services Companies. Visits to Petronor and Praxair will round off the Pumps& Valves programme, which is organised by EasyFairs and Bilbao Exhibition Centre.

Name: PUMPS & VALVES, International Trade Show for Pump Systems, Valves and Equipment for Industrial Processes

Edition No.: 2nd

Dates: 6 to 8 June 2017

Hall: 2

Organised by: EasyFairs and Bilbao Exhibition Centre

Web site: www.pumpsandvalvesbilbao.com

MAINTENANCE: will address 4.0 in maintenance and new business models

Maintenance will be a showcase that is open to the latest trends and developments in industrial maintenance, the management of assets and installations and production reliability within the framework of advanced maintenance. Around 70 exhibiting firms will participate in the event, displaying their products and services in metering, evaluation and control, tribology, maintenance technologies and industrial services, software solutions, environmental services, asset and facilities management.

Like in its first edition, Maintenance will once more be committed to combining its exhibition area with conferences and other professional exchange spaces, in order to group together all of the essential maintenance services for industry at the Bilbao Exhibition Centre.

In the conference programme, Information Technologies – Predictive Maintenance, an essential element for smart manufacturing, will occupy a key place. Indeed, industry today is strongly conditioned by the need to use the installed machinery efficiently and increase maintenance activities to higher levels. Furthermore, Maintenance will also address new business models arising in the field of maintenance, which are related to trends such as the provision of additional services and outsourcing. Among the speakers, representatives from Iberia, SKF, Acciona Energía, TMB Metro Barcelona and GE Digital can be highlighted.

The Maintenance programme will include “Innovation Workshops” in which exhibiting firms will briefly present their products and solutions, highlighting their most innovative and technologically advanced component. The companies registered in this section, which will be held on 8th June, are DTCO, GE Digital, Nueva Gestión Informática, GMAO Corim, Bender Iberia, Atlas Copco Rental, Grupo Surus Inversa, Business Net Engine, PREDYCSA-Predictivo y Control, Carl Software and COGELSA.

The parallel activities represent one of the great attractions and hallmarks of this fair, for which a full programme has been drawn up, including technical visits to leading local companies in the petrochemical and industrial gases sector: Petronor and Praxair. Maintenance, which is organised by Easyfairs and Bilbao Exhibition Centre, is sponsored by Ondoan, Atten2 and GE Digital.

Name: MAINTENANCE, International Industrial Maintenance Fair

Edition No.: 2nd

Dates: 6 to 8 June 2017

Hall: 2

Organised by: EasyFairs and Bilbao Exhibition Centre

Web site: www.maintenancebilbao.com

FITMAQ: holds its 3rd edition at a time of clear recovery of the metal mechanics sector.

This recovery results in greater activity in the workshops, which involves the need to adjust production resources. In light of this, Fitmaq, the second-hand & used machinery fair, is presented as an interesting option for those companies that need to find opportunities that help them in this production adjustment.

In this edition, visitors will find an attractive offer of cutting and deformation machines presented by 22 companies which will exhibit their range of products and services to resolve the needs of the most demanding visitors. In this respect, exhibitors at Fitmaq joins the offer of a final product to maintenance and retrofitting services that are so necessary in the day to day running of a company.

The machinist, a regular visitor to the event, will have an added incentive in this edition, namely also being able to attend the conferences organised by ASPROMEC (Association of Professionals for Machining Competitiveness) in which they will deal with issues related to digital manufacturing and industry 4.0, the virtual factory, among others, and the present and future of the machinist will be debated. In these conferences, members of ASPROMEC will also participate with the intervention of representatives of AFMEC (Spanish Association of Machining and Metal Mechanics Transformation) and the CFAA (Aeronautics Advanced Manufacturing Centre).

Name: FITMAQ, International Fair of Bargain & Used Machinery

Edition No.: 3rd

Dates: 6 to 8 June 2017

Hall: 5

Organised by: Interempresas (Nova Ágora) and Bilbao Exhibition Centre

Web site: www.fitmaq.com

WORKINN: over 100 job offers in the only Industrial Job Forum in Spain

Companies and entities such as AFM Cluster, Batz, Between Technology, Dema, Danobatgroup, Denbolan Soluciones de RRHH, Ederfil Becker, Fagor Arrasate, Gestamp, Grupo Lontana, IMH-Machine-Tooling Institute, Matrici, Page Personnel, SEPE-Spanish Public Employment Service, Tecnalia and Trumpf will present over 100 job offers at WORKINN, the only Industrial Job Forum in Spain.

Identifying talent and offering companies the most qualified profiles, revealing the necessary tools to transform ideas into businesses, promoting professional incorporation and development and providing training and professional guidance are the main objectives of the second edition of the event, which is mainly aimed at professionals in search of employment, as well as final year under-graduates.

In addition to its exhibition area, WORKINN will include other spaces for interviews and meetings in which participants will be able to find out the current situation of the job market first hand and the formulas best suited to their training and experience to access it or improve their positioning. Thanks to it being held in parallel with six industrial fairs, WORKINN will become a strategic meeting point between companies, universities, vocational training centres, selection companies and Temporary Employment Agencies, development and employment agencies, institutions, professionals and students.

WORKINN, which is organised by the AFM Cluster for Advanced Manufacturing and Bilbao Exhibition Centre, is sponsored by the Basque Government and the Bizkaia Provincial Council.

Name: WORKINN, Employment and Training Forum

Edition No.: 2nd

Dates: 7 and 8 June 2017

Venue: Main Atrium

Organised by: AFM and Bilbao Exhibition Centre

Web site: www.workinn.bilbaoexhibitioncentre.com

The official opening of Ferroforma, Subcontratación, Addit3d, Pumps & Valves, Maintenance and Fitmaq will take place on Tuesday 6 June at 12.30pm and will be presided by Arantxa Tapia, Minister for Economic Development and Infrastructures.

Workinn will be opened on Wednesday 7 June at 10.30am by Teresa Laespada, Provincial Councillor for Employment, Social Insertion and Equality, and Beatriz Artolazabal, Minister for Employment and Social Policies.

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