After the successful premiere of USETEC, World Trade Fair for Used Technology, in April 2011, the concept of the event is being refined and improved still further. Two new product categories will be presented at USETEC 2012: in the category "Tools and moulds" exhibitors will present tools to complement used machinery and equipment. The focus will be on precision tools for metalworking processes but – true to the tradition of variety at USETEC – visitors will find tools and moulds for every area on display from woodworking to plastics and rubber processing or the food processing and packaging industries. The "Spar e parts and accessories" category will feature new accessories for every sector of used machinery exhibited at USETEC. Spare parts and accessories for conveyors and construction machinery will be an important category at USETEC 2012. "Just like the area of services, the categories of tools and spare parts supplement the existing range of products for the used technology sector," explains Florian Hess, Managing Director of Hess GmbH, Weingarten/Baden, and organiser of USETEC.

USETEC's technical sponsor, the Trade Association for Machine Tools + Tooling (FDM), has made a key contribution to establishing the new product categories. "The many machinery presentations provided by members of our used machinery group help to set the tone at USETEC," notes Kurt Radermacher, Managing Director of the FDM with not a little pride. "Tool specialists are another important sector organised within our association. These two areas complement each other very well and can naturally be presented together to an interested trade fair audience." Two prominent suppliers are already in the starting blocks at the heart of the "FDM area" at USETEC 2012 – IBT Ingenieurbüro Thiermann from Wiesbaden and Georg Noll Werkzeugmaschinen from Neuß.

USETEC 2012 is very popular among exhibiting companies both in Germany and abroad. With six months to go before the next trade fair, the stand placements both in the hall and outdoor areas are well-booked. Suppliers who have already registered include all the well-known member companies of the FDM we well as leading international dealers and manufacturers, such as Allmendinger, BS Forklifts, DMG, Hammer Fleischerei- und Großküchentechnik, Nagel Baumaschinen, PRESSTRADE, Putzmeister Concrete Pumps, RAG Mining Solutions, TRAFIK BREMEN, Troostwijk Auctions and JOSPEH VÖGELE. The strong demand for exhibition space has prompted the organisers to remind all companies that have not yet registere d to secure their stand placements as soon as possible.

As USETEC 2012 will take place at the same time as the EISENWARENMESSE – International Hardware Fair Cologne, the date of the trade fair is one month earlier than usual. The doors of the World Trade Fair for Used Technology will open in Cologne at the beginning of March 2012 (Monday 5 March to Wednesday 7 March 2012).

Visitors to USETEC will find used machinery and equipment for every sector and branch of industry – from construction machinery and commercial vehicles to robotics, metalworking and woodworking machine tools and from plastics and rubber processing machinery to food processing machines.

Quelle: Usetec