Seminar to Cover USA and Mexico Metalworking Trends

Gardner Business Media, PM’s parent company, is partnering with VDW to present the Metalworking Growth Seminar, a leadership-focused event designed to engage and inform manufacturing professionals about market and technology trends across the U.S. and Mexico while addressing the strategic growth opportunities and key challenges facing these markets today. This will be on Sept. 21 during EMO Hannover. VDW is the German Machine Tool Builders’ Association, a group of companies with common interests located in Germany that produce machine tools.

VDW’s Executive Director Dr. Wilfried Schäfer will open the seminar with a welcome at 10 a.m., while Travis Egan, group publisher for Gardner, will be the moderator. Steve Kline Jr., Gardner’s director of market intelligence, will cover trends in the international machine tool market, with a particular focus on the U.S. and Mexico. Pete Zelinski, editor-in-chief of Gardner’s Modern Machine Shop (MMS) Mexico magazine, will follow him with a focus on technical trends in the U.S. machine tool industry. Then, Claude Mas, the publisher of MMS Mexico, will conclude with a presentation on the opportunities and challenges of the machine tool industry in Mexico. Afterward, there will be discussion and a snack at noon.

The seminar will be held at the Convention Center (CC), room 15/16, Hannover Exhibition Center. To register, go here.