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| European Coatings Show: Excellent figures and top marks  The European Coatings Show still has a few surprises in store twenty years after its launch. After a slight decline for the preceding edition due to the world economic crisis, the 2011 event in the Exhibition Centre Nuremberg even beat the previous top marks of 2007.887 exhibitors from 45 countries presented their product spectrum of high-quality coatings, paints, sealants, construction chemicals and adhesives on a record net display space of 30,000 m² from 29–31 March 2011. 25,955 trade visitors, 14 per cent more than the previous record of 2007, used the opportunity to update on the latest products and services during the three days of the exhibition. 63 per cent of them came to Nürnberg from abroad (2007: 59 per cent / 2009: 56 per cent). After Germany, the countries with the most visitors were Italy, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Turkey, Great Britain and France. The European Coatings CONGRESS with 648 participants from 40 countries at its some 150 papers in 25 sessions also registered outstanding interest in the topical issues of this highly innovative sector. The European Coatings Show and European Coatings Congress are the meeting place for the global coatings community every two years. With its large international share of about 60 per cent for both exhibitors and visitors, the event offers an ideal dialogue platform for experts from all over the world. All the new developments and innovations are represented here, from raw materials for coatings, printing inks and adhesives to intermediates for construction chemicals, laboratory and production equipment, testing and measuring equipment, and application systems to safety at work and environmental protection. Besides a variety of product properties and competitiveness, the environmental compatibility aspect is increasing its importance in research and development, as shown, for example, by the rapidly growing share of water-based coatings and paints. Prof. Matthias Beller of Rostock University opened the European Coatings Congress with his keynote on Monday, 28 March 2011. The winner of the 1st Sustainable Chemistry Award showed that sustainability in chemical production is a key technology of the 21st century. Sustainability was also the central issue of the second keynote lecture by Dr.Erik Risberg of Jotun, Norway. The European Coatings Award for the best Conference Paper was also presented on the first day of the European Coatings CONGRESS to Dr. Marc Entenmann's team from the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation. The paper entitled "Corrosion protection with nanoscale anticorrosive pigments in coatings" describes the effects of reducing the particle size of corrosion protection pigments. The jury based its decision on the outstanding way in which the paper shows an approach to solving one of the industry's biggest and most cost-intensive problems: the corrosion of steel. The next European Coatings Show takes place in the Exhibition Centre Nuremberg from 19–21 March 2013, and the congress starts as usual a day earlier on 18 March 2013. The coating experts from America can look forward to some highlights as soon as 2012, when the American Coatings SHOW and American Coatings Conference take place in the Convention Center at the new location in Indianapolis, Indiana / USA, from 8–10 and 7-9 May 2012 respectively. write your comments about the article :: © 2011 Construction News :: home page |