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Xylexpo 2016 report: The fair witnessed 14.2% increase in visitors

 Tuesday, May 31, 2016

XylexpoThe 25th edition of Xylexpo has reaffirmed position among the most important exhibitions in the wood technology and wood-based materials industry. The fair, which was held from May 24 to 28, closed with largely positive figures.

 
17,145 visitors attended the event this time, with a 14.2 percent increase compared to two years ago. Excellent results can also be seen with regard international visitors with 5,068 operators, accounting for 29.1 percent of total attendance, up by 9.3 percent from 2014.

 
Just concentrating on the Italian side: 12,437 industry professionals came to FieraMilano-Rho from all over Italy, which is about 16.3 percent more than in 2014 and 70.9 percent of all visitors.

 
Exhibition director, Dario Corbetta said, “We are very satisfied with the results of the Milan exhibition. We saw many people in the aisles of Xylexpo, plenty of exhibitors and visitors; we breathed a different air, a better atmosphere; there was a climate of participation and real interest. I want to stress the fact that everyone was at Xylexpo this year, ready to work together”.

 
The latter statement probably represents the key to the success of this edition, clearly supported by a rallying domestic market as well as by an organization that has worked hard to create a “smooth” event, where everyone could find answers to their needs as exhibitors or visitors. Such commitment was combined with clarity: for the second edition, organizers have counted “heads” instead of “visits”, real people instead of accesses, which were 41 thousand in five days.

 

 

Europe was by far the main region of origin, with a 70.8 percent share of visitors, followed by Asia (including Russia and Turkey) with 19.2 percent, Americas (6 percent), Africa (3 percent) and Oceania (1 percent).

 
The Xylexpo 2016 fair hosted 441 exhibitors (122 from 29 foreign countries), over a total surface of 29,189 square meters, two thousand more than in 2014.

 

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