TPT January 2020

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Tube and wire events set to be bigger than ever INTERNATIONAL trade fairs wire 2020 and Tube 2020 have expanded their exhibition space as they look set to be bigger than ever before. second-hand machinery,

equipment for wire manufacturing and wire processing, process engineering tools and auxiliaries, materials, fibre optic technologies, special wires and cable as well as innovations from the area of measuring, control and automation technology. The trade fair duo wire and Tube expect in excess of 70,000 visitors from some 130 countries in 2020.

process engineering tools, auxiliaries, measuring and control equipment as well as test engineering. These are complemented by tube trade, tube bending and tube sawing equipment, OCTG technology, pipelines, profiles, machinery and plastic tubes. In addition to Tube 2020, the world’s largest trade fair for the wire and cable industry will also be taking place and will be presented in Halls 9 to 12 and 14 to 17 and showcasing machinery and

The two events for the wire, cable and tube industries will open their doors at the Düsseldorf exhibition centre from 30 March to 3 April 2020 and will attract more than 2,500 enterprises from all over the world. Registration figures show an increase in attendance from Turkey, India and Taiwan, already exceeding the final exhibitor numbers of 2018. As well as this, strong participation from the traditional exhibitor regions Italy, Spain, Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Central and Eastern Europe points to new record exhibitor figures for next year. “With the new multi-purpose Hall 1 we offer our exhibitors the latest in terms of technical facilities and ultimate convenience,” said Daniel Ryfisch, deputy director of metals and flow technologies at Messe Düsseldorf. Tube 2020 will take place in exhibition halls 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.0 and 7a and will present the complete process chain in the tube industry. Visitors will find everything from machinery and equipment for tube manufacturing, forming and processing, to raw materials, tubes and accessories,

Tube 2020 www.tube.de

Xiris Celebrates its 30-year anniversary XIRIS Automation, a developer of machine vision camera systems and image inspection software, has celebrated its 30 th anniversary. cameras are used to acquire images of manufactured goods and send them to computers for processing in order to monitor, recognise or detect quality defects in manufactured goods.

goods, meaning that the company had a tough few years until the technology slowly gained acceptance. It first became successful in the automotive and semiconductor industries and was eventually embraced in applications across all forms of manufacturing and materials processing. Over the years, Xiris has developed inspection systems for the automotive, semiconductor, electronics, pharma- ceutical, steel, plastics, compact disc and printing industries and has supplied almost 2,000 systems to more than 30 countries around the world. Xiris now focuses on supplying progressive fabricators with camera systems for inspection and monitoring welding processes.

The company, which makes ‘machines that can see’, was founded in 1989 by Cameron Serles and was initially set up to commercialise the budding technology of machine vision, where

According to Xiris, thirty years ago most manufacturers were highly sceptical of using cameras to measure the size or shape of their manufactured

Xiris www.xiris.com

Xiris held a celebration to mark the anniversary

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