ITM Poland - business class prestige

The metal industry is one of the most dynamically developing sectors of the Polish economy. At the same time, it is susceptible to numerous threats, such as the fragmentation of the market (the share of small and medium enterprises is very large), excess capacity of up to 30-40%, and dependence on other industries, for example construction, railway, foundry or automotive industries. Despite those dangers, and in many cases thanks to their effective transformation into opportunities, the expansion of the metal industry (as well as the associated engineering industry) continues. The use of the potential of export, the development of related industries the suppliers of which are metal and machinery sectors and the increase in demand for steel – all those factors result in the flourishing of the industry branches.

Together with the upturn in the metal processing and machinery manufacturing industry, the largest industrial trade fair in Poland – ITM Poland, the record-braking edition of which has just finished – is also growing in strength. 1,000 exhibitors, 16,955 visitors – that is what the fair statistics look like, but more important are the statistics of the exhibitors and visitors, and they left Poznań very satisfied.

"The Fair in Poznań is an event incomparable with any other fair in Poland – said Tadeusz Szczepanik, Director of the Yamazaki Mazak Central Europe Division during the event. We participate in the Fair every year, and each year we realize that our presence here is just something indispensable. We meet here a large number of customers every year, an we also get to know new customers who appear, as the saying goes, "like the devil out of the box"; the companies that sometimes we have never heard about turn out to be very valuable partners. We will definitely be here next year, and in two years time, and later on as well".

The ITM Poland Fair, once again, proved to be an excellent platform for building a market advantage and becoming one of the companies that can be confident about their future. By creating a platform enabling the merging of all sectors related to metalworking and machine manufacture, the event made it possible to assess the moods in the industry and anticipate the trends that are worth investing in. Thanks to its international scale, it allowed to establish and strengthen the contacts with potential partners from abroad. And thanks to cooperative Subcontracting ITM Meetings, the Fair offered an opportunity to find customers for the unused surplus of production capacity.

ITM Poland means the most modern technologies and innovations that provide real market advantage over the competition. But it also means, and perhaps above all, business at the highest level. The sector leaders, even those who do not exhibit at other fairs in Poland like Seco Warwick, arrived to Poznań. ITM Poland 2015 will be remembered as the stand surface area of even a half thousand metres, the prestige of cutting-edge technologies that had their premieres in Poznań, and the huge scope of the exhibition and the level of business talks. 9 exhibition halls filled with the technology of the future, and thousands of representatives of companies, most of whom were managers and persons responsible for purchasing decisions. All that created the atmosphere optimal for shaping of the Polish market; the market focusing on the development, the technologies of the future and the success on the global scale.

"Definitely, it is one of the largest, if not the largest trade fair in the field of machine automation and machine manufacturers – said Janusz Jakieła of the Kuka Roboter company during the Fair. – It is certainly a good form of contacting the customer. We may meet here the customers whom we do not have such a close contact with on a daily basis. For several years, we have been present here. I believe that in the years to come we will be also participating. In my opinion, the situation in the industry is very good. It is evidenced both by the large number of visitors, as well as a significant number of enquiries directly associated with the Fair and generally submitted to our company since the beginning of the year and in the previous years as well."

Albert Einstein once said that "after a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and art tend to coalesce in esthetics, plasticity, and form." The edition of ITM Poland that has just finished proved that not only technologies can be art – business can be either. Surely the business that we had to do with in Poznań, is true art.