METAL 2020: The Expo is on the Horizon

One stop shop for East & West

Companies from Belgium, Belarus, France, Germany, Russia and Ukraine have been a part of the Kielce expo for years and thus the event has advanced to become the bridge between east and west. METAL is where global-scale business contacts are established. The expo agenda includes a plethora of numerous seminars, conferences and training sessions. Kielce foundry business meetings have always featured innovative technologies and provided the opportunity to meet and talk to numerous, top-specialists from Poland and abroad.

The previous edition of the Kielce foundry festival brought together nearly 300 exhibitors from 28 countries who used almost 10,000 square meters of the exhibition space in the Kielce exhibition and congress centre in order to present their products and services. 2018's "Industrial Autumn” was a record-breaking event as it attracted close to 4.000 business insiders - representatives of various industries: foundry and casting, machine and electromechanical, rail, shipbuilding, armaments, robotics and automation, automotive and aviation industry. They came to Targi Kielce from the most distant corners of the world, including Austria, Belgium, Estonia, France, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, Uzbekistan, Germany, the Czech Republic, Italy, Ukraine, Hungary, Belarus, Slovakia, Spain, Great Britain, the United States, Slovenia, Russia, Turkey, India, China and Japan. The previous Targi Kielce Industrial Autumn goes down in history as the record-breaking event. The several thousand experts from around the world were participants of the 73rd World Foundry Congress who also joined the Kielce event. For years, Targi Kielce has enjoyed the support of important, foreign foundry organizations and important media.

Until now METAL expo and its accompanying trade fairs have been supported by, inter alia: China Foundry Association (CFA), Belarusian Association of Foundrymen and Metallurgists , Italian Foundry Suppliers' Association Amafond and the Polish STOP - Technical Association of Polish Foundrymen.

Metal in the limelight
Following previous years’ example, the accompanying events agenda is ruch and diversified - . the previous expo saw the successful début of HEAT TREATMENT - Metal Heat Treatment Trade Fair. Increased interest of companies which supply furnaces and other heat treatment equipment as well as of service providers enhances good economic situation and the boosts markets up-trend. Cutting-edge machines and devices used in the non-ferrous metal industry complemented with raw materials, components and materials used for metallurgical processes are presented at the 16th International Fair of Aluminium & Technology, Materials and Non-Ferrous Metal Products ALUMINIUM & NONFERMET . The METAL 2020 events cluster includes one more element - the fourth RECYCLING expo focused on non-ferrous metals processing, copper, zinc, lead and light and precious metals included.

Presence of the whole array of top-class companies, business-insider customers - representatives of the foundry business-sector and outside, B2B and match-making meetings, conferences, seminars, numerous foreign guests and a whole array of important accompanying and fringe events! The upcoming METAL trade fair is held from 29 September to 1 October 2020 - the show already promises to be really interesting.