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News Release from: Canon Communications | Subject: MTEC event report
Edited by the Processingtalk Editorial
Team on 22 February 2008
MTEC for 2009 will move to March
Canon Communications announces record visitor numbers to MTEC and the co-located events, and renames the 2009 exhibition as Advanced Manufacturing UK, in March, to be an extravaganza of excellence
As the Birmingham NEC closed its doors on this year's successful co-located manufacturing events MTEC, Practical Vacuum, Machine Building Drives and Automation, IPOT, 3C, MEDTEC UK and Semiconductor Processing - which attracted 6,109 visitors - a new door in the UK event calendar was opened with the launch of Advanced Manufacturing UK as an exciting new event for 2009 Announced by Mark Temple-Smith, Event Director, Europe and Asia for organisers Canon Communications, Advanced Manufacturing UK will incorporate the first ever UK Green Manufacturing Exhibition and Conference, focused on sustainable manufacturing processes and the introduction of eco-friendly products
This article was originally published on Processingtalk on 7 Jan 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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Mark Temple-Smith outlined how industry's encouraging response to this year's series of events has spurred Canon Communications to expand the showcase into "an extravaganza of manufacturing excellence that creates an unrivalled annual forum for high-technology manufacturing".
He said: "In order to compete globally, UK companies must continue to accelerate product design and manufacturing processes to achieve the highest degree of efficiencies and quality control.
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Advanced Manufacturing UK will provide all of that and, with Green Manufacturing, advanced manufacturers can get ahead of the regulatory curve, achieve significant cost savings and introduce eco-friendly products".
With almost 400 companies displaying their wares at this year's event - many of them announcing new product launches - exhibitors and visitors alike were full of praise.
"We've had an excellent first day - the best in the past three/four years of the show - with some very good leads," said PR Electronics.
And igus described the show as "absolutely wonderful" with lots of leads and very good quality visitors.
If the showfloor seemed busy, then the comprehensive series of complementary education programmes were equally well supported - and enthusiastically received.
It all adds up to a highly successful two days for manufacturing professionals across the advanced manufacturing spectrum and, with the exciting news about next year's just-announced Green Manufacturing Exhibition and Conference as part of the Advanced Manufacturing UK extravaganza, the dates of 25-26 March 2009 will already be in the diary of many potential visitors.
Advanced Manufacturing UK 2009 will be held at the Birmingham NEC on 25-26 March 2009 and will incorporate these co-located manufacturing -focused events: MEDTEC UK, MTEC Sensors, Measurement and Instrumentation, Machine Building Drives and Automation, IPOT - image processing and optical technology/Vision Technology (VTX), 3C Contamination Control and Cleanroom Products, Practical Vacuum and Semiconductor Processing and the new Green Manufacturing Exhibition and Conference.
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