Composites Europe set to alternate between venues

From 2012, Composites Europe will change its venue. The European Trade Fair and Forum for Composite Materials will move from Essen to the Düsseldorf Exhibition Centre, together with Aluminium World Trade Fair which is held concurrently.

Up until now, Composites Europe has alternated between Essen and Stuttgart every year, after 2010 it will be staged alternately in Stuttgart (2011) and Düsseldorf (2012). From 14-16 September 2010 Composites Europe will be held in Essen for the last time.

Together, Aluminium and Composites Europe form the biggest platform for lightweight construction materials in Europe with well over 1000 exhibitors.

“We felt very much at home in Essen,” said Hans-Joachim Erbel, managing director of Reed Exhibitions Deutschland, “but currently the exhibition space capacities of consistently high quality that are necessary for the two events are not available in Essen, which is why the move to the Rhine was inevitable.”

The space increases planned for the two events in Düsseldorf from 2012 onwards make this clear. From the start, both trade fairs will occupy more than 95,000 m² of hall space with approximately 75,000 m² to be taken up by Aluminium, which will be located in Halls 9 to 14, and a further 20,000 m² reserved for Composites Europe which will take place in Halls 8a and 8b which were completed in 2007.

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