TPi March 2018

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March 2018

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27-30 March TOLexpo (Paris, France) International exhibition www.tolexpo.com 16-20 April Tube Düsseldorf (Düsseldorf, Germany) International exhibition www.tube.de 6-8 June Guangzhou (Guangzhou, China) International exhibition www.julang.com.cn 12-14 June FABTECH Canada (Toronto, Canada) International exhibition www.fabtechcanada.com 26-29 September Tube China (Shanghai, China) International exhibition www.tubechina.net 17-19 October Indometal (Jakarta, Indonesia) International exhibition www.indometal.net 23-26 October EuroBLECH (Hanover, Germany) International exhibition www.euroblech.com

Welcome to the latest Tube Products INTERNATIONAL magazine, which is a special Tube Düsseldorf issue. If you are attending the event then I hope that within these 100 or so pages you will find all of the information you require during your stay in Germany. Inside you will discover a full list of exhibitors and their stand numbers to guide you around the vast exhibition (see page 56) and help you plan who you wish to visit over the five days of the show. We also have in-depth information on many of the innovative new products that are being exhibited, in our Düsseldorf Exhibitors section, which starts on page 70, as well as all of the usual tube industry and product news from around the globe. The magazine is being distributed in several key locations at the event in Germany. We will be in the main entrance hall (EN03) and I will be based in Hall 4, Stand B23 all week. Do come and pick up some extra copies or just say hello. The entire INTRAS team will be there in force so it would be a pleasure to meet you or to say hello to some old friends at what will be my fourth Tube show in Germany and hopefully the best yet. Even though I am now a veteran of Tube Düsseldorf it never fails to impress me with its scale and oustanding levels of organisation, while still remaining a friendly and informal place to make priceless connections. Nothing else in the industry offers such a multitude of face-to-face international networking opportunites. With well in excess of 1,000 exhibiting companies, Tube once again broke its exhibitor record in 2016 (and has grown eight-fold since the first show in 1988). Last time several thousand extra visitors attended, so hopefully 2018 should be equally spectacular.

Enjoy the magazine and have a fantastic stay in Düsseldorf in what will hopefully prove to be a successful 2018 for the industry.

6-8 November FABTECH (Atlanta, USA)

International exhibition www.fabtechexpo.com

27-29 November Tube India (Mumbai, India) International exhibition www.tube-india.com

Rory McBride Editor

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