With more than 2,000 participants, parts2clean trade fair restarted successfully after a year of forced break.
The organisers of parts2clean have announced the successful restart of the trade fair after a year-long break caused by the global COVID-19 pandemic. More than 2,000 participants attended the event in Stuttgart, that hosted around 130 exhibiting companies from Germany and ten other countries.
The fair allowed to finally present in-person new products and solutions for a wide range of industry applications for parts and surface cleaning. parts2clean was focused on the increasing importance of cleaning processes in the age of Industry 4.0 and AI: steadily growing demand for clean surfaces and components requires highly efficient cleaning technologies as well as seamless integration of processes throughout the production chain.
“We are delighted that parts2clean restarted so successfully and confirmed its role as the most important international platform for industrial parts and surface cleaning. We are very satisfied with the number of visitors under the given conditions, especially since the quality was extremely high,” stated Arno Reich, senior vice president at Deutsche Messe AG.
Trade show premieres included plant, process and process technology, clean and cleaning rooms, cleaning media and containers, work piece carriers and washing baskets, degreasing and cleaning solutions, ultrasonic devices for cleaning, bathroom maintenance, cleanliness control, corrosion protection, and packaging.
In addition to this, Fraunhofer’s cleaning division organised the parts2clean forum, that provided insights related to parts and surface cleaning.
“We are extremely satisfied with the high level of participation in our forum, where we were able to welcome not only national but also international visitors. The number of visitors is lower overall than in 2019, but the quality is very good. The topics ‘challenges due to film contamination’ and ‘cleaning for medical and pharmaceutical technology’ were particularly well received. There was also strong interest in the areas of standardization and guidelines and the exhibitor product presentations. The demand for up-to-date information is huge, which is a great position for the parts2clean forum,” commented Frank-Holm Rögner, the division manager of Fraunhofer.
“As the leading trade fair for industrial parts cleaning, parts2clean has been the most important of all trade shows for us for years. What makes parts2clean special is that customers come with specific project ideas and want to develop solutions together on-site,” said Samuel Wolf, Assistance to the Management for vapic GmbH. “Visitors demand a wide range of specialist knowledge to meet their requirements. We rate this year’s show just as successful as parts2clean 2019 and thank all visitors for their interest. We look forward to starting the new projects.”
“We were pleasantly surprised that on the morning of the first day we had many visitors at the exhibit. That was the best morning at the show so far. The other two days of the fair were also very well attended. Of course, we cannot compare the absolute number with 2019, but the visitors who were at parts2clean were specifically looking for solutions and were not only interested in our standard systems, but also in tailor-made solutions, which we manufacture completely customer-specific,” concluded the Head of Sales at Zippel GmbH, Wolfgang Kaufmann.
The next edition of parts2clean will take place from 11th to 13th October 2022 in Stuttgart (Germany).