The world premieres are coming thick and fast at this year’s Elmia Wood. And more than one world record is being broken. Two days before the fair Tigercat unloaded the world’s biggest wheeled harvester at the Port of Gothenburg.
Operating a harvester crane can require handling two or even three controls. At Elmia Wood John Deere had its world premiere for crane-tip control using only one joystick. The result is greater precision and less strain for the operator.
Many older forest owners and contractors remember with regret a time when forwarders loaded their own weight. Gremo has almost reinvented that class of machine. At Elmia Wood the company presented a concept for a forwarder that weighs 10.5 tonnes and loads 8.5.
Schweden ist ein hoch entwickeltes Industrieland; der Fokus der dortigen Anbieter liegt auf moderner Hightech-Fertigung. Im April stellt das Land zahlreiche seiner Unternehmen auf der Industrial Supply in Hannover auf einem Gemeinschaftsstand vor.
Sweden is a highly developed industrial nation with a focus on modern high-tech manufacturing. In April a group of Swedish suppliers will show off their skills in a national pavilion at Industrial Supply, Hannover.
Some 200 meetings in two days between a total of 85 companies from 17 countries. Subcontractor Connect continues to be an important venue for doing new business.
Pitch it! is a new event at Elmia Subcontractor where a company can win a SEK 250,000 (EUR 25,000) subsidy for a future export venture. First to take up the challenge was Glenn Wilander, CEO of QTech in Anderstorp, Jönköping County. “The hardest part was to include as much as possible and not leave out anything important,” he says.
AnVa Polytech’s environmental rubber made no less a company than Volvo Cars prick up its ears. Today the two companies are successfully cooperating – which was made clear at Elmia Subcontractor.
Subcontractor InnoDex has established itself as a real public magnet at the fair. Here visitors can see and touch innovations from around the world and listen to inspirational lectures during the entire week.
Stricter requirements for quieter environments have led sound absorption specialist Horda Stans to fine-tune its own product range. The Småland company is focusing strongly on recycled textile and polyester fibres – which have excellent sound insulating properties – and is exhibiting them at Elmia Subcontractor.
Now Klarvik can really call itself a total supplier of aluminium components. At its stand at Elmia Subcontractor the company is presenting its new drawing solution.
Elmia Garden presents the garden trends for 2017: Green in the Garden, The Green Lab and Vego Garden. Next year we will continue to see garden elements featured in interior decorating and fashions, in the kitchen and food preparation, on the balcony and at nursery schools.
