Gigitalisation, individualisation and climate protection are megatrends which represent challenges for coating job-shops and companies with in-house painting operations.

With roughly 500 exhibitors already registered at the end of December 2019, the upcoming 8th World’s Leading Trade Fair for Industrial Coating Technologies—otherwise known as the PaintExpo-- will offer a range of solutions from April 21 to 24, 2020 in Karlsruhe (Germany).

The exhibition portfolio of the leading trade fair for industrial coating technologies covers all process sequences for liquid and UV painting, as well as powder coating and coil coating.

Companies with in-house painting operations specialised in vehicle manufacturing, consumer goods production and all other industry sectors are facing these challenges – regardless of whether components made of metals, plastics, wood and wooden materials, glass, composites or other materials need to be painted or coated.

Roughly 500 companies from 26 countries had already booked their booth floor space at the end of December 2019. With approximately 16,000 sq m of net exhibition floor space, they’ve already reserved more than all of the exhibition floor space occupied at the event in 2018.

The industry sector’s global players will be on hand, as will its innovative small and mid-sized companies. “This makes it possible for job-shop coaters and visitors from companies with in-house coating operations to gather comprehensive information about the most up-to-date developments and trends in all areas of industrial coating technology,” explained Jürgen Haußmann, managing director of event promoters FairFair GmbH.

“Attention will of course also be focused on automation and digitalisation solutions for painting processes at the upcoming PaintExpo. In the meantime, it’s no longer just a question of automating individual coating steps, but rather of networking the process chain,” continued Haußmann.

Amongst other solutions, multi-axis robots specially designed for the coating industry and robot painting cells for liquid painting and powder coating will be presented, which combine the high quality and reproducibility of robotic painting with a flexible and cost-effective solution that also makes it possible for mid-sized and smaller companies to get started with automated painting.