Read more about PaintExpo in our follow-up report and visit PE24-videos.oberflaeche.de: Exhibitors comment on the topics of the trade fair and explain their innovations in video interviews.
In any case, there is one thing to be said for the high energy prices, the EU's regulatory frenzy and the shortage of skilled workers: All of these factors seem to be getting the industry moving and encouraging inventiveness and the abandonment of well-trodden paths. This is hard to overlook. And so the topic of automation played a surprisingly strong role in Karlsruhe.
In many other areas of industrial production, one realization is already much more established than in the surface industry, namely that AI will help to close control loops in a relatively foreseeable period of time, meaning that the self-regulating production machine is no longer sci-fi. This has already become clear at a number of industrial trade fairs this year. The surface sector must not miss the boat here. There are still very few approaches to actually using AI here. The projects that do exist are definitely worth taking a closer look at.
It is now the end of May and the second major industry event of the year is just around the corner, SurfaceTechnology Germany in Stuttgart. Here, too, the focus will be on digitalization, efficiency and sustainability for the many different processes that are part of the trade fair's DNA. At least that's what the exhibitor announcements in the run-up to the event suggest. Find out more in our trade fair special from page 48 of mo issue 5-6 and online at SFG24.oberflaeche.de.
Even if the EU's handling of PFAS can be criticized quite rightly and in many respects with factually and scientifically justifiable arguments, the PFAS shock is helping some new developments to attract more attention than they would have found in the routine of functioning processes. For example, a ceramic non-stick coating with impressive properties, which we present in a detailed article in issue 5-6 from page 18.
In mo issue 5-6, we take up many current topics in the industry, from corrosion and diffusion protection for hydrogen to PFAS and their role in the medical sector to exciting applications in the field of electroplating and thermal spraying.
I wish us all a progressive normalization of economic development, lots of energy and good ideas. Perhaps we'll see you at the trade fair in Stuttgart!
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