With more than 2,000 visitors from Germany and neighboring European Union countries, parts2clean restarted successfully after the pandemic-induced break. Approximately 130 exhibiting companies, one in five of them from outside Germany, presented new products and solutions for a wide variety of industry applications at the meeting point for parts and surface cleaning.
Ecoclean, Halle 4, Stand C28
parts2clean in Stuttgart demonstrated the increasing importance of cleaning processes in the age of Industrie 4.0 and AI. Steadily growing demand for clean surfaces and components requires highly efficient cleaning technologies as well as seamless integration of processes throughout the production chain. Exhibitors from more than ten countries informed the trade visitors about new products and solutions for clean parts and surfaces. “We are delighted that parts2clean restarted so successfully and confirmed its role as the most important international platform for industrial parts and surface cleaning,” says Arno Reich, senior vice president at Deutsche Messe AG. “We are very satisfied with the number of visitors under the given conditions, especially since the quality was extremely high.”
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Roughly 2,000 visitors came to parts2clean in Stuttgart, one in five of them from abroad. The strongest visitor countries were Austria, France, Italy, and Switzerland. Visitor quality was excellent: every third visitor came from top management, every fifth from the department manager level. Every third visitor came to part2clean with specific investment plans. The strongest visitor industries were the automotive industry (33 percent) as well as mechanical and plant engineering, followed by medical and semiconductor technology and the aerospace industry.
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Innovations and further developments
parts2clean featured numerous new and further developments. Trade show premieres included plant, process and process technology, clean and cleaning rooms, cleaning media and containers, work piece carriers and washing baskets, degreasing and cleaning solutions, ultrasonic devices for cleaning, bathroom maintenance, cleanliness control, corrosion protection, and packaging.
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Expert forum a magnet for visitors
Fraunhofer’s cleaning division organized the parts2clean forum, which provided a unique knowledge platform for all topics related to parts and surface cleaning. Hundreds attended the forum on-site and 1,500 participants joined online. Frank-Holm Rögner, division manager at Fraunhofer, reported, “We are extremely satisfied with the high level of participation in our forum, where we were able to welcome not only national but also international visitors. The number of visitors is lower overall than in 2019, but the quality is very good. The topics ‘challenges due to film contamination’ and ‘cleaning for medical and pharmaceutical technology’ were particularly well received. There was also strong interest in the areas of standardization and guidelines and the exhibitor product presentations. The demand for up-to-date information is huge, which is a great position for the parts2clean forum.”
