The editor's feet are already dreading this one - the monster 12-hall, all things aftermarket fest that is Automechanika Frankfurt.
Once again, the paintwork and bodywork sector is set to give an impressive demonstration of its innovativion at the 2016 German show from 13 to 17 September and Paint & Panel will be there to report on new products and emerging trends.
A whopping 35 percent of the exhibitors in Hall 11 (the main body repair section) come from Germany and include companies such as Festool GmbH, SATA GmbH & Co. KG, Vosschemie GmbH, WOLF Anlagen-Technik, KG, MIPA, Sehon Innovative,BOGE compressors, Audatex AUTO online GmbH and ANEST IWATA. Other important exhibitor nations are Italy, the Netherlands and Poland, and visitors can look forward to numerous innovations, especially in the fields of workshop equipment, repairs, paintwork and corrosion protection.
New: ‘Collision Damage Repair Street’ to supplement ‘Collision Talk’
In 2014, ‘Collision Talk’ was the best attended event of the lecture programme. As before, it will be held in the Portalhaus building, which adjoins Hall 11 where everything revolves around the world of bodywork and paintwork during Automechanika.
New is the ‘Collision Damage Repair Street’ where 14 workshop-equipment suppliers, paint manufacturers and collision-damage service providers show process-optimisation solutions. “We are delighted with the expansion of the successful event concept this year”, says Olaf Mußhoff, Director of Automechanika Frankfurt. “This enables us to strengthen Automechanika as the meeting place for companies and decision makers from the collision-damage market and show solutions for process optimisation in the workshop.”
Christian Simmert and Wolfgang Auer, attracted great interest on the part of bodywork repair specialists and workshops at the last Automechanika. The topics to be discussed with leading decision makers from the insurance and collision-damage management sectors, as well as the trade associations, include invoice deductions, price dumping through flat-rate offers, automobile service and the increasing competition.
The Talk guests are: Gerhard Witte (ControlExpert), Thomas Melzer (Axalta Coating Systems), Thomas Geck (HUK-COBURG), Steffen Struwe (Innovation Group), Stefan Artz (Service Partnernetzwerk) and ZKF President Peter Börner.
We know there will be a posse of Toyota repairers visiting Frankfurt, an other Aussie repairers who are going please get in touch so that Paint & Panel can interview you while you are there.
Further information on the Automechanika website.