GIFA, METEC, THERMPROCESS and NEWCAST to return in Düsseldorf on June 25-29, 2019

The dates for the mega trade fair quartet- GIFA, METEC, THERMPROCESS and NEWCAST have been announced. The event combo, the biggest in the metallurgy and automation space covering aluminium industry, will be held at the same four-year interval in Germany's Düsseldorf from June 25-29 in 2019.

Requests from industrial exhibitors worldwide have already started pouring in numbers. Messe Düsseldorf Director Joachim Schäfer said: “For some time now, switching to a three-year interval has appeared to us to be necessary, because the innovation cycles in the foundry technology and metallurgy sectors are shortening too. It has proved to be the case that a shortening of the interval would put too much pressure on the corporate exhibitors. Since Messe Düsseldorf always acts in line with its customers’ requirements, it has decided to maintain the four-year interval with the four leading trade fairs GIFA, METEC, THERMPROCESS and NEWCAST – at the request of large numbers of exhibitors.”

The four trade fairs produced exceptionally good results when they were held most recently: 78,000 visitors from more than 120 different countries came to Düsseldorf for GIFA, METEC, THERMPROCESS and NEWCAST to experience what the 2,214 exhibitors had to offer from 16 to 20 June 2015. The exhibitors were delighted about the business transactions concluded with customers from all over the world. The trade fairs were once again considerably more international than at the previous event, with 56 per cent of the visitors and 51 per cent of the exhibitors coming from outside Germany this time.

It is expected, down four years, when the event quartet opens its doors to the international visitors, same response will be generated. Till that time, industries have to wait and prepare for the biggest show at the global networking platform.