The visitors

ALUMINIUM is the world's leading trade fair for the aluminium industry. Since its start in 1997 the fair has developed to the number one meeting place world-wide. The uniqueness of the show results from the fact, that it represents the entire value chain offering solutions for the aluminium industry and all applications fields.

Please find below the results of the exhibitors' and visitors' survey of ALUMINIUM 2010.

 

Development of the number of visitors

Origin of the visitors

Professional status of visitors

Main areas of visitors' interest (by area of application)

Economy sector of the visitors

 

ALUMINIUM is the international meeting place for producers, processors, suppliers of technologies, buyers, designers and engineers from the entire aluminium industry.

Among the target groups of the aluminium producing and processing industry and the metal working and processing industry incl. surface treatment ALUMINUM focusses the following application industries:

Visitor target groups

  • automotive (cars, commercial vehicles)
  • transport (railway, ship and aircraft building)
  • engineering
  • electrics and electronics
  • building and construction
  • packaging and consumer durables

 

    automotive

    Automotive

    transport

    Transport

    engineering

    Maschinenbau

    electrics and electronics

    Elektronik und Elektrotechnik

    building and construction

    Bau- und Konstruktion

    packaging and consumer durables

    Packaging and Consumer Durables

     

    The special characteristics of aluminium allow it to be used in a wide variety of application areas. These include its:

     

  • lightness and recyclability - for the automotive and transport industries (commercial vehicles, railway, ship and aircraft building),
  • strength and appearance - for the building industry,
  • precision - for mechanical engineering,
  • conductivity - for electrical engineering and
  • corrosion resistance - also for the transport industries.

The combination of these material characteristics gives Aluminium the name innovative material of the future!

 

Development of the number of visitors

Development

In 2010 more than 17.000 visitors came to the show. For 2012 in Düsseldorf around 25.000 visitors are expected.


Origin of the visitors

Origin

The visitors were very international. 48% came from abroad, all in all from more than 100 different countries.


Professional status of visitors



Professional


Main areas of visitors' interest (by area of application)

Main

The trade visitors were especially interested in solutions of the sector automotive, engineering and building&construction.


Economy sector of the visitors

Economy