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By Gulgiz Dadashova

WIN-World of Industry as the leading manufacturing exhibition of Turkey and the Eurasia region brought on its 20th anniversary four important sectors together.The latest trends and a wide range of products were presented during the exhibition.

Organized by Hannover Messe Bileşim Fuarcılık A.Ş. at the TÜYAP Fair and Convention Center on March 21-24, 2013, the WIN Automation gathered "Industrial Automation", "Electrotech", "Hydraulics & Pneumatics" and "Materials Handling" industries under a single roof.

WIN-World of Industry Automation exhibition was visited by 75.802 sector professionals of which 3,036 came from 77 different countries. The fair was held on 30.610 square meters net area with the attendance of 1.765 companies in total.

In addition to national exhibitors, direct participants coming from 22 countries, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, China, the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, South Korea, India, the Netherlands, Japan, Spain, Switzerland, Italy, Portugal, Poland , Romania, Taiwan, Jordan and Greece displayed their products and technologies at the exhibition. Japan, South Korea, Italy and Germany participated with their national pavilions this year.

General Manager of Hannover Messe Bileşim Fuarcılık A.Ş., Alexander Kühnel expressed that he was satisfied that their efforts and promotional activities done before the exhibition resulted in success.

"The WIN Automation fair is accepted more than ever as a leading fair. We got very positive feedbacks from companies that they made successful business connections. WIN family has grown up, we started 20 years ago with our show and nowadays we do the biggest exhibition all over Turkey. We are glad to see how the WIN fair has grown up within 20 years. The positive results we attained with the high number of exhibitors and visitors and the high satisfaction of our clients confirm that we are doing our job well as the organizer for the benefit of our exhibitors," Kühnel said.

The fair brought relevant key players of the "Industrial Automation", "Electrotech", "Hydraulics & Pneumatics" and "Materials Handling" industries together. Numerous leading national and international companies presented their newest products to visitors from Turkey and abroad.

Industrial Automation Fair hosted high-profile national and int'l companies

Parallel to the rapid increase in industrialization, the importance of automation in manufacturing increases every day and the annual growth rate is 7-8 percent. Projections show that this percentage will stay the same or can even go higher.

Country Manager of Turkey VDMA (German Engineering Federation), Friedrich Wagner expressed his opinions about the positive results of the fair. "The 38 exhibitors of the Official German Presentation at WIN Automation are very satisfied ... They had a lot of promising contacts with old and new customers and partners from Turkey and the entire region. These contacts have to be extended in the future," he said.

Bonfiglioli Turkey General Manager, Murat Güracar also spoke about the success of the WIN Automation fair .

"There is increase in the number of visitors when compared with last year's numbers. The visitor quality is good ... as we are satisfied with the fair, we decided to attend the fair on a larger space next year," Güracar stressed.

Materials Handling Fair boosts coop with ISDER

Today, the increasing needs of the industrial society also increase the need for solutions in handling, stowage and storage. In Turkey and in all other countries, the subjects like reduction of investment costs and storage space are the most significant topics for logistics and storage managers.

The cooperation with ISDER (Materials Handling, Storage & Industrial Equipments Association) this year enabled its members to exhibit forklifts as well as many other product categories in the Materials Handling Fair.

ISDER Vice President of the Board, Faruk Aksoy reported that the participation in exhibitions like WIN Materials Handling is substantially important and will help to achieve the goal of Turkish machinery sector for 2023. "This type of exhibitions are of vital importance for the machinery sector to reach the target of 100 billion export volume in 2023. The exhibition is very beneficial, in order to determine the insufficient aspects of Turkish machinery sector and build relationships with the global markets," he said adding that the WIN Materials Handling fair is one of the world's most influential trade fairs.

In turn, HMF Makina Product Marketing Manager, Nergis Özbek said that they were satisfied with the fair: "I think the fair visitors are quite professional. As of today, we have received more visitors than the fairs of previous years. I believe that it would be better if stack machinery companies are located in one exclusive area. The organization met our expectations. "

Renewable Energy Special Section presented

The Turkish Electricity Transmission Company estimates that Turkey's demand for electricity will increase at an annual rate of 6 percent between 2009 and 2023.

The Electrotech Exhibition as an important part of WIN covered all electricity related sub topics and offered a "Special Display" about the "Renewable Energy."

President of ETMD (Electrical Installation Engineers Association), Tuncer Özekli stated: "Both the inclusion of Renewable Energy within the context of WIN Fair this year and the general visual layout of the stands were very successful. We were very glad to observe the high participation to Electrotech section that is supported by ETMD and to Automation section, in which we are especially interested, as an association due to our related business. We express our thanks to Hannover Messe for organizing the WIN Fair. "

Makel Marketing Manager Fatih Yüzbaşıoğlu's also appraised the organization of the WIN Fairs: "The visitors are specialized in different areas. For that reason, we are very pleased with the profile of the visitors we have received. They are all experts or the people, whom we refer to as electricians. The information we provide and the mutual dialogue we have established are quite satisfying. The smart building systems that we are getting ready to promote in the market received huge interest. In summary, I can say that the fair met our expectations. "

Hydraulic & Pneumatic Fair shed light on the sector

Hydraulics & Pneumatics Industry in Turkey shows a parallel development with machine production industry. During the past 10 years, Hydraulic & Pneumatic sector has been rapidly growing, the sector has a volume of 400 million Euros.

Chairman of AKDER (Turkish Fluid Power Association), Fikret Dalkıran stated that the fair organized on March 21-24 was very lively as it has always been observed. "Hall 12 dedicated to the hydraulic pneumatic industry was filled up by both Akder members and professionals of the industry who are not members of the association. We thought the fair was cleaner, tidier and more organized than previous years. I would like to congratulate and thank everybody who has contributed to the Win fair and wish you further success in many more fairs to come. "

Kastaş Kauçuk A.Ş. General Manager, Haydar Atılgan also shared his views about the fair. "Just like in previous years, I believe this year's fair was a successful one in terms of general flow and number of visitors. Exhibitors displayed more state-of-the-art technology products in line with market expectations this year. The most important thing was the fact that robots and robotics systems constituted an important place in the fair. As Kastas, we can say that the general structure of the six Hannover Messe fairs that we have attended to date met our expectations. "

Invited delegations visited the fair this year from selected countries in Eurasia, Middle East as well as Africa with the support of Economy Ministry. Invited hosted buyers' delegations coming from Iran, Baden Württemberg / Germany also participated in the fair. Professional matchmaking activities were organized by Istanbul Chamber of Industry. In addition to the International Buyer Delegation and the Anatolian Delegation, the presidents of associations from countries like Azerbaijan, Tunisia, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Iran, Uzbekistan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Algeria, Kazakhstan, Afghanistan, Morocco and Palestine, visited the exhibition and made important business connections.

Guidelines for Industry provided

The Industrial Activities Summit organized every year within the framework of the fair, hosted numerous conferences, panels and corporate activities this year. In addition to the trade platform created by the WIN Fairs, the Summit provided guidelines for the industry as a very effective platform to exchange information. Within the framework of the summit, the German VDMA Association delivered a Robotics seminar.

The matchmaking activities were organized for the first time this year by Baden Württemberg and a workshop was also a part of the Summit. B2B's of the Baden-Württemberg State Delegation were organized in collaboration with the German-Turkish Chamber of Trade and Industry. The matchmaking activity provided an ideal platform for innovative approaches, for companies, which were looking for new business partners and for those which would like to initiate new cooperation's.

The WIN Metal Working Phase which brings "Metalworking", "Welding" and "Surface Treatment" under one single roof will present the latest trends and developments of the sector on June 06-09 2013 at Tüyap Fair and Convention Center.