Exhibitions and conferences

摘要

At the Press Conference held on the first day of the annual SMT/Hybrid/ Packaging Exhibition, Udo Weller, the Head of Mesago Messe Frankfurt GmbH expressed surprise that, despite all of the harbingers of doom and soothsayers of a slough of despond, numbers attending his show in Nuernberg were very good indeed.rnDownstairs he had rented the same square meterage of exhibition space as he had back in 2007; he was expecting some 24,000 souls through the turnstiles, much as usual, and some 400 conference delegates. True, the number of exhibitors was down a touch, but given the decline in travelling budgets, overall he could see no major change. About 30 per cent of the exhibitors were internationals, the lead country being the USA, hotly followed by Switzerland, Asia and then the UK.