euromold. 2014 opens its doors at messe frankfurt
The World Fair for Moldmaking and Tooling Design and Application Development increases its international focus in order to reach global markets.
The 21st edition of EuroMold – the World Fair for Moldmaking and Tooling, Design and Application Development – has opened its doors at Messe Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, presenting itself as a globally positioned trade fair. It focuses on increasing the competitive ability and independence of German companies by means of a consistent international orientation – with a proportion of foreign exhibitors at approx. 50%, around 60 first-time exhibitors from abroad, and a majority of exhibitors representing the tooling & moldmaking and the rapid prototyping industries.
The event has around 1,000 exhibitors from some 32 countries, and is expected to meet approximately 50,000 international visitors from all areas of industry.
Unique concept
EuroMold is a unique exhibition concept which bridges the gab between industrial designers, product developers, processors, suppliers and users. The trade fair takes place annually in the exhibition halls in Frankfurt and is hosted by DEMAT GmbH, one of the most prominent exhibition organizers in Germany. EuroMold as the worldwide leading fair is a global meeting place where all suppliers and users come together who promote the use of new technologies for Moldmaking and Tooling and who realize new design, new tools and molds with new processing technologies.
At this year’s trade fair, the organizers are expecting the proportion of foreign visitors to be around 50%. In this edition, there are around 40 first-time exhibitors from Germany and around 60 first-time exhibitors from abroad. The majority of the foreign first-time exhibitors is made up primarily of Portuguese mold- and toolmakers, as well as companies from the Netherlands, Great Britain, France and China.
Mold- and toolmaking is thus the largest industrial sector represented at the trade fair, followed by rapid prototyping & tooling and the accessories and peripheral devices manufacturing industry. Besides, representatives from all other areas of the overall process chain viz, from the engineering, design, machine tooling and software sectors are expected to be present.
According to Eberhard Döring, Manager of the EuroMold trade fair, “In contrast, other trade fairs that have a national focus bring together mainly German exhibitors and visitors, by no means displaying state-of-the-art technology and failing to offer these numerous opportunities to establish business contacts around the world that can be found at EuroMold. Within a global market, it is apparent that German companies enter new markets with international partners. In this regard, EuroMold serves as the world’s only platform that has been established within its field for several years and can offer an incomparably broad variety of international companies from the entire industrial process chain. Once again in 2014, companies will benefit from our international orientation within the global market.”
Tool-making and additive manufacturing form the core
EuroMold, the world’s leading trade fair for moldmaking and tooling, design and application development, will again welcome visitors from the major industrial sectors to the Frankfurt exhibition halls where the entire process chain of industrial production in the spirit of the catchphrase ‘From the idea to the series’ is once again presented this year. EuroMold is a global industry showcase that amplifies and promotes existing trends through conferences and forums. The ‘Additive manufacturing and tool-making’ forum in Hall 8.0 will demonstrate the potential and opportunities that arise when new technologies are intelligently integrated into the existing process chain.
In addition, manufacturing companies and their customers will be presented with all the advantages of additive manufacturing processes in varied and increasingly complex tasks.
Satellite component from 3D printer
At this year’s EuroMold, companies from different industrial production sectors are presenting collaborative projects that perceptibly demonstrate the added value of synergies for the partners involved. The development of a new antenna carrier for an earth observation satellite will be one of the highlights at the trade fair, which proves the success of such cooperation and shows by example how design and development exploit the true potential of additive manufacturing when exploring new ways.
As part of the pilot project, RUAG, Altair and EOS cooperated in the development of a new antenna section for the Sentinel 1 satellite and developed a revised mounting that was optimised for production in an industrial 3D printing process. The objective was to make the new aluminium component much lighter while keeping keeping its strength, and to make the best use possible of the design freedom that the additive manufacturing process offers. As a result, the finished component is almost only half the weight of the previous component and at the same time considerably more rigid. In space navigation, weight saving in particular is a decisive factor, because the lighter a satellite, the more cost effective it can be launched into space.
Industry 4.0
The event presents the possibilities of Mass Customization as pioneering business model in an impressively lifelike manner. Customized mass production refers to a manufacturing method in which a product can be customized or configured by the customer using modular design principles, but at the price of a comparable standard product.
Hightech made in Germany
Exhibitors from Germany and around the world are presenting groundbreaking ideas for numerous industries, sectors and specialist fields. All of them are introducing visitors the ways of faster, more cost-effective and efficient product development.
EuroMold Award – ‘The Oscar of product development’
Since 1997, the EuroMold Award has been awarded every year at EuroMold in gold, silver and bronze for outstanding technologic innovations and product developments. The criteria include the technologic degree of innovation, the sustainability and the efficiency as well as the design. The trade fair organizer DEMAT GmbH donates the participation fees received to a charitable institution.
20 years of success
The EuroMold has been oriented towards users in areas such as the automobile, sub-contracting, electric and electronic industries, household appliances, medical devices, consumer goods, air and space travel and leisure and sport. In Addition, it is oriented to companies which provide application development as part of their business, which means everything in one place – the so-called total service provider.
On the occasion of its 20-year anniversary, the trade fair presented a comprehensive model of the entire industrial product development process chain from 3 to 6 December 2013. With 58,673 visitors from 83 countries, the number of people visiting the trade fair this year exceeded the values of the previous five years. A total of 38,593 (66%) of the visitors came from Germany and 20,080 (34%) from abroad. Most of the foreign guests were from Italy (7.4%), France (6.4%), Turkey (6.3%) and Switzerland (5.9%). The trade fair was pleased to welcome visitors from Japan and Finland for the first time.
The world trade fair EuroMold is the biggest event by DEMAT, the joint organizer of trade fairs for Moldmaking and Tooling, Design and Application Development in the USA, Japan, China, India, Russia, South Africa, Sharjah, Egypt and Brazil.
