Company Announcement - The fifth WIRE & CABLE INDIA was held from 28 to 30 October 2014, thus running in parallel with Tube India International and Metallurgy India. 388 exhibitors from 25 countries came to the trade fair trio where they presented their products from the wire and cable industry as well as the latest technologies in metallurgy and in the treatment and processing of tubes. The trade fairs also featured official pavilions from Austria, China, Germany, Italy and North America. All three trade fairs had been organised by Messe Düsseldorf and its subsidiary Messe Düsseldorf India. Support was provided by important industry partners such as the International Wire and Cable Exhibitors Association, the International Wire & Machinery Association, Italian Wire Machinery Manufacturers Association, the Wire and Cable Industry Suppliers Association USA, the International Tube Association and the German Engineering Federation. Also on board were a range of Indian industry associations such as the Steel Wire Manufacturers Association of India, the Institute for Steel Development & Growth and the Indian Stainless Steel Development Association. At the same time Messe Essen worked together with Messe Düsseldorf India and the German Welding Society in organising India Essen Welding & Cutting at the same venue.

In all, 10,600 trade visitors came to the Bombay Convention & Exhibition Centre in Mumbai to find out about innovations, technologies and trends in the relevant sectors. The Indian industrial sector is greatly dependent on the automotive engineering, telecommunications and construction industries. /3 Despite a slowdown in India’s economic growth in 2014, the trade fair stands at WIRE & CABLE INDIA, Tube India International and Metallurgy India 2014 attracted a lot of interest. By running in parallel, the three trade fairs offered visitors not only a broad basis for communication in India, but also important synergies on the visitors’ side. Pleased to see so many visitors with major decision-making powers and praising the information activities of those visitors, many exhibitors have already announced that they would come again in 2016.

Werner M. Dornscheidt, Chairman and CEO of Messe Düsseldorf came to the following assessment of the trade fair: “Speaking on behalf of Messe Düsseldorf and Messe Düsseldorf India, we are very pleased that by setting up Wire & Cable India, Tube India International and Metallurgy India 2014, we have established an ideal industry platform for the Indian market. As organisers of the world’s leading trade fairs Wire & Tube, Gifa, Metec, Thermprozess and Newcast in Düsseldorf, we can draw on a wide-ranging expertise and are therefore confident that we’ll be strengthening the leading roles of our trade fairs on the Indian subcontinent even further.” The next set of trade fairs – WIRE & CABLE INDIA 2016, Tube India International 2016, Metallurgy India 2016 and India Essen Welding & Cutting 2016 – has been scheduled for 5 to 7 October 2016 and will be held at the Bombay Convention & Exhibition Centre in Mumbai.