Events News

Mack Brooks Exhibitions has announced dedicated sheet metal working exhibitions in Russia, Poland and India next year. The organisers of the world’s leading international sheet metal working exhibition EuroBLECH, held for the 20th time in October this year in Hanover/Germany, will organise the BLECH series of events every other year. Unlike EuroBLECH which targets a global audience, BLECH Russia, BLECH Polska and BLECH India are designed for the respective national markets.

Parker will be exhibiting its latest fuel and heavy-duty lubricant filtration solutions at SMM, the shipbuilding, machinery, and marine technology international trade fair in Hamburg.

Altair Engineering, Inc. today announced that the agenda for their Pre and Post-Processing Seminar 2008 has been finalised.

IWEX visitors seeking compressed air application solutions were introduced to three compression technology choices on the Atlas Copco Compressors stand. These included the company’s latest dry rotary screw compressor, together with innovative high-speed gearless centrifugal and conventional positive displacement blowers.

A record number of visitors attended Health and Safety 08 held recently at Sandown Park in Esher, Surrey. The event, the first of two in a regional series sponsored by DuPont™, experienced a rise in visitor numbers of over 20% clearly demonstrating the effectiveness of its combination of a high quality educational programme with an exhibition in an easy to access regional location.

The Health and Safety 08 event at Sandown Park in Esher, Surrey on the 26th and 27th February 2008 will host the first of Combilift’s Regional Driver of the Year competitions. The Health and Safety 08 event, sponsored by DuPont™, consists of a free seminar programme and an exhibition, and the forklift driver competition takes place on the first day of the event.

Noran Engineering, Inc. announced that it will demonstrate new analysis and simulation software at the Atlantic Design and Manufacturing Show, June 3-5, 2008 at the Jacob Javits Center in New York City. NEi is at Booth # 338. Digital prototyping technology developed by NEi enables product engineers to visualize the response of their designs to structural and thermal loads before investing in physical prototypes and test programs. This means changes and optimization can occur early in the development process saving time, money and improving the ability to meet regulatory requirements like FDA approval.

Monday 9th June sees Birmingham City University’s design and process innovation team offer a free, day-long conference which will explore the implications of product development using knowledge-based engineering (KBE). Led by KBE-specialist, Craig Chapman, the event offers Midlands industry the opportunity to learn about this ‘quantum leap’ in industrial design technology at the University’s Technology Innovation Centre (TIC), central Birmingham.

Ethernet Direct Corporation is offering FREE brief product seminars focusing on Industrial Ethernet Networking and communications. These seminars will be held in Agora Garden Hotel in Taipei, Taiwan in connection with the Computex 2008 Show event.

Organised by the BHR Group, the 19th International Conference on Water Jetting will be held in Nottingham, United Kingdom, 15-17 October 2008. This is the premier event of its type in Europe and has particular significance this year as the popularity of water jetting continues to grow dramatically. Today’s applications range from precision cutting and shaping to environmentally friendly cleaning, the decommissioning of munitions and even the removal of damaged flesh from wounds. Peter Longman of KMT Waterjet Systems in the UK is Chairman of the conference.