Bohle and UAP are the latest big names to confirm their presence for the FIT Show in May. This year’s exhibition will mark a special 10-year anniversary for FIT, before it reverts to its usual ‘every other year’ format to avoid clashing with Fensterbau.
According to organisers, 20% of the FIT Show will feature companies that have never exhibited before and with 85% of space already allocated, it looks like we could be in for a decent outing before the show takes its two-year break.
In other news this week, companies seem to be fighting over who has had the best year in 2022, and/or the most productive start to 2023.
Since the start of January, we’ve heard from the likes of Listers, Deceuninck, Carl F Groupco and VBH – all of whom enjoyed bumper sales last year – and now it’s the turn of Rockdoor and Haffner.
The former says that 2022 was the company’s most successful year in 30 years of manufacturing – thanks to a FIT Show debut and the introduction of a ‘No Bow Guarantee’ – while the latter has announced a very strong start to 2023 thanks to fabricators clamouring for its Graf Synergy machines.
Matt Thomas, MD of Haffner, says that the company has enjoyed a ‘sharp increase’ in orders for Graf Synergy and its seamless welding technology and adds that this indicates continuing demand for high-end products going forward.
In fact, all of the aforementioned companies have highlighted demand for premium products as a major driver for sales.
That’s good news for fabs and installers that have the product portfolios to match this trend – and an alarm bell for those that don’t…
Looking forward to FIT
Bohle and UAP are the latest big names to confirm their presence for the FIT Show in May. This year’s exhibition will mark a special 10-year anniversary for FIT, before it reverts to its usual ‘every other year’ format to avoid clashing with Fensterbau.
According to organisers, 20% of the FIT Show will feature companies that have never exhibited before and with 85% of space already allocated, it looks like we could be in for a decent outing before the show takes its two-year break.
In other news this week, companies seem to be fighting over who has had the best year in 2022, and/or the most productive start to 2023.
Since the start of January, we’ve heard from the likes of Listers, Deceuninck, Carl F Groupco and VBH – all of whom enjoyed bumper sales last year – and now it’s the turn of Rockdoor and Haffner.
The former says that 2022 was the company’s most successful year in 30 years of manufacturing – thanks to a FIT Show debut and the introduction of a ‘No Bow Guarantee’ – while the latter has announced a very strong start to 2023 thanks to fabricators clamouring for its Graf Synergy machines.
Matt Thomas, MD of Haffner, says that the company has enjoyed a ‘sharp increase’ in orders for Graf Synergy and its seamless welding technology and adds that this indicates continuing demand for high-end products going forward.
In fact, all of the aforementioned companies have highlighted demand for premium products as a major driver for sales.
That’s good news for fabs and installers that have the product portfolios to match this trend – and an alarm bell for those that don’t…
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