B2B event organisers, Leading Edge Events & Media will host two related events concurrently at the Birmingham NEC on 29-30 September 2010: the Aero Engineering 2010 Exhibition & Congress - the UK's only dedicated engineering event for the UK aerospace community - and The Composites Engineering Show 2010 - a brand new show, servicing the UK's rapidly developing composites design and production engineering community across all applications.
“The response to the co-location in both value chains has been outstanding and we expect a high take up from visitor groups for both shows nationwide,” said event's director, Ian Stone.
Aero Engineering 2010 provides a platform tailored to the needs of the UK's aerospace engineering industries - from specialist aerospace subcontracting services to advanced machining technology, and from test and inspection to modelling and simulation.
“This event fills a vital void in providing a no-nonsense suppliers' fair for this demanding, discreet market sector, where buyers and sellers can meet and do business in a focused aero-engineering environment,” he added.
Building on the success of the inaugural Aero Engineering 2009 event in Manchester, where some 800 plus companies and organisations throughout the UK aerospace engineering supply chain participated, Aero Engineering 2010, in its new central UK location expects to attract engineering teams from all sides of the UK aerospace industry. A unique attendance of primes/tier 1 to tiers 2-4 and supporting supply groups will provide a showcase environment for specialist technologies and service industry supply groups on the show floor.
The organiser claims that Aero Engineering 2010 will evolve to help visitors quickly identify suppliers, technologies and presentations in their area of interest, using dedicated focus technology trails that embrace: design, modelling, simulation and materials; machining manufacturing and assembly; testing and inspection; avionics/electronics and electrical; subcontract/supply chain engineering; maintenance, repair and overhaul.
Regarding Aero Engineering's parallel Supply Chain Business Briefing, Stone continues: “Nowhere else are decision makers in the UK aerospace engineering supply chain able to hear this level of top tier aerospace programme management presenting opportunities in future aircraft build programmes, collaborative R&D initiatives, export opportunities, industry standards, and more.”
Running concurrently on the same show floor, The Composites Engineering Show 2010 reflects the enormous UK demand in composites design and manufacturing, from high volume consumer applications to high performance advanced engineered products. This importance is reflected in the show's support from key stakeholder organisations including Composites UK, NetComposites, the Knowledge Transfer Network and others.
“The continuing thirst for information and partnerships for UK companies wishing to work with composites or from those already part of the composites value chain, spurred us to launching the UK's first dedicated showcase for the composites community,” noted Stone. “This mirrors the importance and growing use of these advanced materials across all industry sectors, from the obviously synergetic aerospace to motorsport, renewable energy, medical, industrial equipment, automotive and more, and reflecting the Government's recent £22 million endorsement of composites development.”
Exhibits and technical presentations at the new Composites Engineering Show will cover all composites types, including fibre reinforced polymers, sandwich and cored structures, fibre metal laminates, metal matrix, ceramic matrix and carbon composites. The event showcases materials manufacturers and suppliers; design, analysis and simulation technologies; processors/processes and production technologies, including machining and tooling; suppliers of composite parts, components and structures; and composites maintenance engineering.
“The combination of multiple advanced engineering groups meeting across the two shows provides infinite opportunities for technology transfer and supply chain networking and will cement both shows into the UK industry's ‘must attend' calendar,” concluded Stone.
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