Our present journey to take a closer look at the future continues.
Last time we talked about the hectic month that was April, full of innovations, journeys and preparations. May was no different, and many of the events that we had mentioned in April actually took place at last.
Among them, the Infracorr conference in Milan, on May 28th. For a day, Palazzo Turati became the nerve centre and meeting point to analyse and discuss the possible solutions to ensure that tragedies like that of the Morandi Bridge in Genoa never happen again.
Bringing this conference to life required the joint effort of many people who worked every day to put together an event sponsored by several trade associations and the Ministry of Infrastructures and Transport. On the day we had around one hundred participants and we could count on the collaboration of nine companies specialized in corrosion control and prevention technologies, each of which held a discussion on a separate specific related theme.
The active participation of the attendees, the spontaneous debate that arose at the end of each presentations and the positive feedback of our partners made all of our efforts more than worthwhile.
The future is now
If in April we looked towards the future, in May we experienced the future first-hand.
While travelling to put together the special on automotive and transportation of ipcm® and ipcm® Ibérica/LatinoAmérica, we have in fact been able to witness how the technological revolution has now found wide application, reaching its peak.
From the robotic flame hardening of car bumpers in Maserati, to the 4.0 synergy between international companies to create Europe's largest cataphoresis plant for semi-trailers in Lecitrailer and let's not forget the impressiveness of a plant capable of coating 685 alloy wheels in an hour in Mapsa – the future is here; the future is now.
As further proof of this, during Dürr's Open House, we witnessed the first transport of car bodies and materials through Automated Guided Vehicles (AGV) and, even more astounding, the custom application of two colours on the bodies with no overspray and no need for masks.
A record month
In the pages of our magazines we have often talked about pioneering businesses, which have adopted processes and technologies never explored up to that moment, or companies which hold records for the capacities and volumes treated by their plants. May set a record for ipcm as well: the 220-pages special on automotive and transport is our richest edition ever for variety of contents and advertising spaces.
And while the editorial office was juggling to create and organise the 4 magazines published in May, others from ipcm were just as busy visiting the most important trade fairs and companies in Mexico, Spain, Germany and Italy, all of which you will be able to read about in the upcoming issues of our magazines. This is the beauty of the editorial work: the research to tell and inform our readers about innovation never stops.
Because communication is the most beautiful of journeys.