Fuel Cell Expo attracts record breaking visitor numbers

This month saw hundreds of exhibitors and fuel cell innovators swarm to Tokyo for a record breaking third Fuel Cell Expo.

The exhibition is the world’s largest trade show and this year ran from February 7-9 at Tokyo Big Sight. The 2007 show featured all kinds of manufacturing equipment, materials, components, inspection/measurement devices, fuel cell systems, nanotechnologies and other technologies related to fuel cells and hydrogen.

FC EXPO also proved its status as one of the most important and influential annual exhibitions in the fuel cell industry as it broke its own record in both exhibitor and visitor number, with 462 exhibitors from over 15 countries, 1.5 times larger than the previous show and 24,494 visitors from 53 countries.

Organisers are delighted with this years turnout and are already planning for next year as Kenji Okabe, the FC EXPO Show Director, commented, $quot;We have received inquiries for the next year’s show both from exhibitors and visitors during FC EXPO 2007 and even before. We strongly feel that FC EXPO became the venue, where exhibitors and visitors actually implement business meetings upon the practical utility of fuel cells and hydrogen in various applications.$quot;