With an increasingly international flavour, this year’s Glasstec hosted 1,235 exhibitors on 27th September, from 52 countries at Germany’s Messe Düsseldorf and welcomed more than 40,200 trade visitors from over 100 countries, across four days. According to the event’s organisers, exhibitors at the glass industry trade fair, covering mechanical engineering, glass production, processing and finishing, skilled crafts, architecture and construction, as well as windows, facades and solar systems, ‘unanimously’ reported the forging of ‘promising’ business deals, the making of new contacts and encouragingly, an ‘upbeat mood’ in the global glass sector. The organisers report that more than half of visitors to Glasstec were at a ‘decision-making level’ within their companies, while over 40% reportedly attended ‘with concrete intentions to invest’. The proportion of guests travelling to Düsseldorf from abroad was also described by Glasstec’s organisers as ‘unrivalled’.
