Supplement of ipcm® - International Paint&Coating Magazine n. 59
Although the concept of value chain refers mainly to good manufacturers, a similar concept can also be applied to service businesses: those offering complete packages and presenting themselves as a single source for various interrelated activities have a huge competitive advantage over providers of single services.
Consequently, value chains are important development drives for industries, especially the surface treatment one, which has an impact on the design, conservation, packaging, and transport of products.
This third issue of ipcm®'s ICT supplement deals with this and much more. Incidentally, this is a very important issue, as it will be distributed at the two most important European trade fairs for the surface preparation and cleaning sectors: DeburringEXPO (Karlsruhe, Germany), to be held on October 8th to 10th, and parts2clean, the only exhibition in Europe to specialise in industrial surface cleaning technologies.
DeburringEXPO, of which EOS Mktg&Communication is the exclusive agency for Italy, Spain, and Portugal, perfectly embodies the concept of value chain. By its third edition, it has managed to combine deburring, cleaning, AM post-production, and sheet deflashing technologies into one event.
Besides numerous articles on the latest developments in terms of industrial cleaning machines and products, this issue of ICT offers extensive press coverage of all the innovations and technologies that will be presented at both events.