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Tube 2024 to feature first-ever events
Educational, business-oriented presentations highlight fresh offerings
- By Lincoln Brunner
- March 26, 2024
- Article
- Tube and Pipe Fabrication
Tube 2024 in Dusseldorf, Germany, promises exhibitors and attendees a bevy of educational and enterprise-oriented presentations to supplement the show.
This year’s trade fair features companies representing the entire process chain of the tube and pipe sector, including machinery for manufacturing, finishing, and fabricating pipes and tubes. In addition, visitors can see exhibits focused on many other facets of the market: raw materials, tube products and accessories, used machinery, process engineering, sensors, controls, and measuring and testing technology.
Held every other year at the Messe Dusseldorf fairgrounds, Tube is now the world’s largest trade event focused solely on the tube and pipe industry. This year’s event will be held in Halls 1-7 of the giant Messe Dusseldorf complex, which offers more than 2.8 million sq. ft. of indoor exhibition space. It will feature 1,134 exhibitors from at least 49 countries—up from 765 exhibitors two years ago.
Running April 15-19 in conjunction with the wire 2024 expo, Tube 2024 will feature, for the first time, several supporting events tuned to the market for all five days of the fair. In addition, this year’s event will focus even more on sustainability and energy efficiency than in the past, an effort that includes ecoMetal Trails, which helps visitors to set up meetings online or by QR code with exhibitors that are manufacturing products in a resource-saving way.
Though primarily focused on metal tube and pipe, the show will include a new Plastic Tubes and Pipes area covering the value chain of that sector of the market, from production to processing to final products. “The Düsseldorf trade fair venue is the absolute front-place for the wire and tube sectors when it comes to presenting innovations from the relevant industries to a broad, international audience,” said Daniel Ryfisch, director wire/Tube & Flow Technologies at Messe Düsseldorf. “Tube will once again be the global meeting place for the tube industry.”
A Buyers’ Day on the Forum stage in Hall 1 on the first day of the fair will focus on due diligence supply chain acts as well as sourcing and logistics. It is compiled and presented by the Federal Association of Materials Management, Purchasing and Logistics (Bundesverband Materialwirtschaft, Einkauf und Logistik).
The SawExpo forum for cutting and machining technology in Hall 6, hosted by Messe partner SawExpo GmbH, wil have a theme of "Business Meets Science." The foum will feature daily speeches from representatives of exhibiting companies and universities on numerous aspects of cutting technology. In addition, SawExpo is planning a High Potential Day on Friday, which is dedicated to students and other young professionals.
At the BDS Forum in Hall 1, the Federal Association of the German Steel Trade (Bundesverband Deutscher Stahlhandel) will offer the latest on global steel industry trends. At this event, industry experts will analyze the impact of current economic policies on the steel trade, and steel traders will discuss sourcing and sales markets, economic framework conditions, digitalization, and AI.
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Lincoln Brunner
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Lincoln Brunner is editor of The Tube & Pipe Journal. This is his second stint at TPJ, where he served as an editor for two years before helping launch thefabricator.com as FMA's first web content manager. After that very rewarding experience, he worked for 17 years as an international journalist and communications director in the nonprofit sector. He is a published author and has written extensively about all facets of the metal fabrication industry.
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