NAMUR Conference in China 2010 - This Year's Sponsor: Pepperl+Fuchs

For the second time, NAMUR China has modeled its general meeting on the template of NAMUR’s German business. Although the numbers attending the meeting in China, around 130, were fewer than the record numbers registered at this year’s NAMUR conference in Germany, it is, nevertheless, a platform on which a main sponsor can enhance its profile in relation to its business partners in China. The high-powered reports and lectures from the NAMUR working groups in China - supplemented by presentations made a week earlier in Bad Neuenahr – offered a well-rounded picture.

Contrary to the German model, NAMUR in China does not (yet) divide the public into separate lecture rooms after the main lecture – all presentations are made to the entire audience. As this year’s sponsor, Pepperl+Fuchs had the opportunity to make two additional technical presentations in addition to the main lecture. The event also offered a chance to visit the exhibition space, which was decorated to reflect the Pepperl+Fuchs corporate image. Here, visitors had the opportunity to take a close look at the latest Pepperl+Fuchs exhibits. The undoubted highlights here were the presentations and exhibits relating to DART.

NAMUR China surveyed visitors following last year’s debut event to find out the main issue they would like to see discussed. “Explosion protection” was at the top of many visitors’ list, so the innovative DART explosion protection concept met the wishes and expectations of visitors perfectly.

The quality of the event would lead one to expect that visitor numbers will increase rapidly in the coming years - particularly if NAMUR China succeeds in attracting members of the Chinese market who are not already members of NAMUR in Germany.