Holz-Handwerk and Fensterbau/frontale

 

 

NuernbergMesse is pleased to offer to its many visitors from Italy a new shuttle bus service linking Munich Airport directly with the Nuremberg Fairgrounds for the duration of the trade show, from March 21 through March 24, 2012.

Departures from Munich and Nuremberg will allow for convenient connections with flights between Munich and many Italian cities. The ride will take approximately 1 hour and 15 minutes each way, enabling our visitors to overnight in the city or visit the trade show as a day-trip.

Departure from Munich airport: 9:00 a.m. and 11 a.m.; our shuttle bus, bearing the logo of the trade show, departs from outside Terminal 2.

If you wish to use our shuttle service, we kindly request that you reserve your place via e-mail no later than March 15, 2012. Please send the name(s) of traveler(s) and the day and time(s) of departures of the buses on which you are reserving seats to: cecilia.montalbetti@nm-italia.it.
For additional information, please call: +39 02 28510106, ext. 107.

Please note that cannot be guaranteed the availability of the service to those visitors who do not reserve their seats by March 15, 2012.

Presented in Milan in a crowded press conference inside the charming rooms of the Arts and Science Museum in via Sella, the 2011 edition of the Holz/Handwerk and Fensterbau/Frontale exhibitions will be held in Nuremberg, Germany, from 21 to 24 March.

The event’s importance is growing year after year and, starting from this edition, it will be officially supported by Eumabois, the federation that gathers 14 national associations of woodworking technology manufacturers in Europe.

Organizers are confident that it will be a great show, encouraged by the success recorded in 2010 and most of all, as underlined at the press conference, by the fact that the category of “handicraft” companies, i.e. German small and medium businesses to which Holz-Handwerk is dedicated, is going through a highly satisfactory season. “It’s a real boom”, said Stefan Dittrich, project manager of the exhibition.

In Nuremberg, 1,200 exhibitors are expected (500 at Holz-Handwerk, basically the same as in recent editions), specializing in the production of doors, windows, facades and machining solutions for wood and wood-based materials.

Also in 2012, all woodworking and wood processing product categories will be represented: from tools to fastening techniques, from hardware to software.

Over 100 thousand visitors are expected (there were 103 thousand in 2010, the most visited show ever, with a 16 percent share of foreigners) at an event that has become a key date for the German market and that, at each edition, records an increase of foreign visitors by a few percent points.

 

At the press meeting in Milan, Dennis Bieselt of the woodworking division of Vdma, the German association of machinery manufacturers, presented some figures to attending journalists. To begin with, he mentioned the substantial rally of German production, which should amount to 2.5 billion Euros in 2011, with 2.7 billion Euro forecasts in 2012. We are still far from the record year 2007 (3 billion Euros), but the escalation from 1,9 billion in the horrible year 2009 is apparent.

In percent points, Vdma analysts predict – net of the reduction that also impacted woodworking machinery production in recent weeks – 14 percent growth compared to 2010 and another 2 to 5 percent in 2012 from this year.

Looking at import-export figures in the January-August 2011 period, there are no good news for Italy: our export to Germany has dropped by as much as 34 percent compared to the first eight months of 2010. Conversely, only 3 percent of German production is shipped to Italy, versus 13 percent to China, 9 percent to Russia and 8 percent to Turkey.

  

The rich program of side events includes a joint initiative by the Nuremberg Fair and Ift Rosenheim, the “wood university” known all over the world. “Energy Plus:save and produce energy with windows, facades and glass” is a special show that will be set up in hall 1 to show suitable techniques to leverage the ever-growing focus on energy efficiency in constructions.