A total of 4388 visitors from 39 countries travelled to Stuttgart for the 10th parts2clean from the 23rd through the 25th of October, 2012. The expert visitors brought concrete tasks along with them, which provided the 230 exhibitors with excellent leads, qualified project RFQs and contract conclusions. With 1765 visitors, the parts2clean expert forum, held for the first time in both German and English, drew participants in record breaking numbers.

"parts2clean 2012 went well for us, and we were able to establish lots of interesting new contacts. The visitors came to our booth with concrete cleaning problems and were well prepared, allowing us to get into the details without delay in a targeted fashion and work out appropriate offers. As a result, we're very satisfied with our trade fair appearance", sums up Matthias Fallert, key account manager at Alfred K?rcher Vertriebs-GmbH. But this isn't the only exhibitor who was pleased with the way things went at the 10th parts2clean - nearly all of the 230 participating companies from 16 countries were satisfied. 19% of the exhibitors came from outside of Germany, which is 3% more than last year.

Reduced visitor numbers, down by 8% as compared with record participation in 2011, didn't diminish the good mood. This was assured by the top quality of the 4388 expert visitors from 39 countries, 21% of whom came from outside of Germany. Just under 65% visited the leading international trade fair for the first time this year. About 86% of the visitors are involved in company decision-making processes and roughly one fourth came to parts2clean with the intention of placing orders or preparing for investment decisions.

And these intentions were in fact realised, as reported by Karina Mack, managing director of Adunatec GmbH: "We sold a cleaning system directly at our booth without any previous meetings at the customer' facility or at our plant, or any cleaning tests. But that's not the only reason that parts2clean was a complete success for us: we were also able to field solid leads and hold interesting meetings. Miguel Sabio, export manager at Tierra Tech S.L. in Spain, also reports successful participation at the trade fair: "This is not a trade fair with extremely large numbers of visitors, but it's nevertheless a very interesting event. Visitors from a great variety of industry sectors come looking for solutions to special cleaning tasks. We've been able to establish good contacts here, and present our products successfully. I'm convinced that our second appearance at parts2clean will also pay off." Bernd Stelzer, sale manager for industrial cleaning at K?gel GmbH, has a similar view: "In my opinion, the quality of the visitors is even better than it was last year. We've had extremely good discussions once again this year. We'll exhibit again in 2013, because parts2clean is truly the leading trade fair for industrial parts cleaning." Chuck Sexton, sales manager for industrial products at US cleaning agent manufacturer Kyzen, is convinced of this as well: "parts2clean is our platform for presenting products in Europe. Once again this year, we've been able to establish very strong contacts with visitors from the automotive and railway industries, from medical engineering, remanufacturing, the electronics industry and other sectors as well - and not just with companies from Germany, but rather from Poland, Italy, Turkey and even the USA as well. Aside from this, parts2clean allows for good networking with system manufacturers and producers of machining media such as cutting fluids and cooling lubricants." "Of course our primary goals for trade fair participation are maintaining relations with existing customers and gaining new ones. Beyond this, it's important for us to see what's happening within the industry and to coordinate our efforts with colleagues and partners," agrees Alexander Nix, authorised signatory and director of surface finishing at Stockmeier Chemie GmbH & Co.