Trade show with record growth

Solids Dortmund (Schüttgut) and Recycling-Technik open their doors on 21 and 22 May 2014 in Dortmund’s Messe Westfalenhallen. The shows have reached a record growth. Halls 4 and 5 are both fully booked and in the newly-opened Hall 6, only 20 % of the exhibition space was still available three month before the beginning. „There are several factors to which we can attribute this incredible growth,“ says Daniel Eisele, Exhibition Director at Easyfairs. „For one, we have many returning partners and exhibitors who chose to display machines and therefore needed to somewhat increase the size of their stands; but then, of course, there is also the fact that 23 % of the exhibitors are new – with 50 % growth in the number of companies from abroad – compared to the last edition. The number of Dutch exhibitors alone has doubled, and the majority of this year’s new exhibitors are participating for the first time ever.“ For example, industry giants such as Contitech, Beumer Group, Kaeser Kompressoren K.A. Schmersal, and SBM Mineral Processing, who will present their solutions and products for handling and processing solid and bulk goods at Solids Dortmund 2014.

Above and beyond the growth of the exhibition there is an expansion on content offered by the two shows: Fostering multi-faceted and intensive exchange of experience and know-how, the four lecture arenas will host a total of 60 presentations. Furthermore, the debut of the German Fire and Explosion Protection Congress will feature large-scale live explosion tests and fire simulations, to be conducted on the premises of the nearby DMT. „Our focus this year is on technical inter-communication with experts. Alongside the classic visitor lounge, our innovative Business Bar at the centre of Hall 4 will be a novel combination of exhibition, networking and gastronomy,“ explains Sandrina Josephs, Easyfairs Marketing Project Manager for the show. „Topic-specific guided tours and an interactive visitor contest are also among the new highlights provided for attendees.“

The German Fire and Explosion Protection Congress is organised in cooperation with IND EX e.V. (Intercontinental Association of Experts for INDustrial EXplosion Protection e.V.).. The interdisciplinary conference unites thematically the areas of fire protection and explosion protection, providing professionals from both sectors an ideal platform to inform themselves on the topic of industrial fire and explosion protection. The concept behind the congress, with its combination of theoretical lectures and practical demonstrations, is to provide participants with ample time for networking with speakers from both focus areas. For example, Professor Dr. Ulrich Krause of the Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg will give a lecture on „Recent Findings on Risk Assessments of Bio-Gas Plants“. Mr Jens Hötger, graduate engineer and expert at DMT in Dortmund, will illustrate the „Safe Handling of Fires and Explosions in Solids Silos and Storage Facilities“, and Dr. Marc Scheid, Fire & Explosion Hazard Assessor at Swiss-based Syngenta Crop Protection AG (Münchwilen), will address the question, „How does the global corporation Syngenta apply the latest studies to the fire and explosion hazards arising from chemical compounds?“ The highlight of the two-day event, taking place on the afternoon of Wednesday, 21 May 2014, will be a world premiere. The congress attendees can look forward to exclusive, live explosion and fire simulations performed on the premises of DMT Fire and Explosion Protection in Dortmund.

As a part of the expansion of the Solids European Series,, Solids Russia 2015 will debut on 27 and 28 May 2015 in St. Petersburg. „Companies interested in reaching a new market with Solids Russia 2015 can take confidence in the expertise, collected through years of experience in the bulk material industry, that Easyfairs has collected as organiser of the Solids European Series,“ states Daniel Eisele, Group Event Director of the Solids European Series. Solids Russia is a so-called Conf-Ex, a multi-show format that links conference and exhibition closely together. The trade event offers international companies the opportunity to network and make business contacts with Russian trade visitors. The newly built congress and trade fair complex, Expoforum St. Petersburg, offers an ideal and modern setting for the innovative conference programme.