The recent edition of fensterbau/frontale 2012, held concurrently with HOLZ-HANDWERK, and organized by VDMA Holzbearbeitungsmaschinen and NürnbergMesse GmbH, had 779 exhibitors from 36 countries, and included a supporting programme offering many opportunities for information and training.
fensterbau/frontale 2012, with 779 exhibitors from 36 countries excelled again as leading exhibition for the window and façade sector. Besides Germany, the most exhibitors came from Italy, Poland, Turkey and Austria. Ninety-seven per cent of the companies had international visitors on their stands, mainly from the immediate neighbouring countries, followed by Italy, Great Britain, Russia and Turkey and countries in all the other continents. Nine out of ten exhibitors showed a new product or innovation in Nürnberg, three-quarters of them rated their overall success as satisfactory to good, and as many as 13% very good. Well over 90% of the exhibiting companies said they had reached their most important target groups at fensterbau/frontale.
A good half of the visitors at fensterbau/frontale 2012 came from the craft trades and another quarter of them from the industry. Twelve per cent were from wholesalers, retailers and builders’ merchants, and five per cent were architects. Eight out of ten visitors are involved in purchasing and procurement decisions in their company. Three-quarters of the visitors felt that their visit to the exhibition would encourage them to use the new products seen here in their work. For more than half of them, fensterbau/frontale is the only exhibition they visit for the themes shown.
The supporting programme at fensterbau/frontale once again offered many opportunities for information and training. For example, the European trade association EuroWindoor organized a conference on “Climate Protection with New Windows”, and on the first three days of the exhibition experts from the Bern University of Applied Sciences and Holzforschung Austria (Wood Research Institute) provided information about the latest research findings from developments in the window and façade market. The Real Estate Conference offered energy consultants and property operators tips on energy-efficient renovation.
The special show in hall 1 organized by NürnbergMesse, ift Rosenheim and the Fachverband Glas, Fenster, Fassade Baden-Württemberg (GFF – Glass, Window and Facade Association) in cooperation with manufacturers was a well-known and popular meeting place on all days of the exhibition. The show entitled “EnergyPlus” focused on pioneering technologies for saving and producing energy in the building envelope. Input for the work of architects and building designers was provided by the “Architects’ Area” and the “Innovation Award Architecture + Window Facade”, and especially by the 6th Forum Architecture–Windows–Facades.
The speakers on this year’s topic of “East meets West” were the Berlin publicist Eduard Kögel and the noted architects Meinhard von Gerkan of Hamburg and Zhang Ke of Peking.
fensterbau/frontale is co-held with HOLZ-HANDWERK, and organized by VDMA Holzbearbeitungsmaschinen and NürnbergMesse GmbH.
The next exhibition duo takes place in the Exhibition Centre Nuremberg as scheduled from 26-29 March 2014 but with even more display space. The new hall 3A then puts the finishing touch to the buildings in the east section of the exhibition site. It will connect to hall 4A in the south and cover an area of more than 8,000sq.m.