The recently concluded, four-day FABTECH/AWS 2011 exposition and conference at Chicago’s McCormick Place welcomed a historic 35,457 attendees from more than 80 countries, including CryoGas International Publisher John Campbell and National Sales Manager John Miaskowski.
FABTECH is North America’s most comprehensive event for metal forming, fabricating, welding, and finishing companies. Attendance at this year’s show was 35 percent above the 2009 attendance, when FABTECH was last held in Chicago. A record 522,000 net square feet was filled by more than 1,300 exhibitors.
“Exhibitors were enthusiastic about the activity level on the show floor and are looking ahead to 2012,” Mark Hoper, FABTECH show manager, said. “Returning exhibitors were happy that leads were up from shows of the past few years and numerous first-time exhibitors proclaimed that the decision to exhibit was a great choice for them.”
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