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PaintExpo 2020 postponed to October 12-15, 2020

Published on : Tuesday 17-03-2020

The 8th international leading trade fair for industrial coating technology in Karlsruhe (Germany) postponed due to corona virus Sars-CoV-2.

 

Oberboihingen, March 2020 – FairFair GmbH, the organiser of PaintExpo, has decided to postpone the world’s leading trade fair for industrial coating technology to October 2020 due to current developments in connection with the corona virus Sars-CoV-2.

 

The safety and health of exhibitors, visitors, guests and employees, as well as the general public, are the organiser's top priority. Therefore, after re-evaluating the situation together with the exhibitor advisory board and Messe Karlsruhe, the decision has been made not to hold PaintExpo as planned from 21 to 24 April 2020. The health measures recommended by the Robert Koch Institute for large-scale events such as trade fairs would have been associated with severe restrictions both for exhibitors and visitors.

 

PaintExpo will now take place from 12 to 15 October 2020 at the Karlsruhe Trade Fair Centre. “We are very pleased to have found a new date for PaintExpo 2020 so quickly in agreement with Messe Karlsruhe and the exhibitor advisory board,” says Jürgen Haußmann, Managing Director of FairFair GmbH. “Providing planning security for our customers, partners and the entire industry is a top priority for us.”

 

The organiser also stated that the original contracts with approximately 540 participating companies from 26 countries are still valid without restriction for the new date, as are visitor tickets.

 

With its exhibition portfolio covering the entire process chains for wet painting, powder coating and coil coating, PaintExpo is the world's largest and most important trade fair in the field of industrial coating. It enables contract coaters and in-house coating companies from all industries to find out in detail about the latest developments, trends and technologies for coating components and substrates made from all kinds of materials.