EuroBLECH History
The History of EuroBLECH
For more than 41 years EuroBLECH has grown continuously. Today, it is known for being a high quality event and is the world’s number 1 sheet metal working exhibition.
1969
The first show “First International Sheet Metal Exhibition” takes place in London’s Olympia Exhibition Centre. 70 exhibitors present machinery and equipment for the forming and fabrication of sheet metal. The conference “Sheet Metal in the Seventies” is held alongside the exhibition.
1970
Just one year later the 2nd edition “Second International Sheet Metal & Metal Forming Exhibition” takes place in Manchester, UK.
1974
The show moves to continental Europe, and the exhibition - now just called “BLECH” - opens its doors in Zurich’s “Züspa-Hallen” in Switzerland.
1978
“BLECH” relocates to Germany where most of its exhibitors and visitors are at home. Taking place at the exhibition grounds in Essen the show grows over the years to more than 700 exhibitors and over 10,000 visitors.
1992
Having outgrown the exhibition centre in Essen, the organisers move the show to the world’s largest exhibition facility in Hanover. For the first time, over 1,000 exhibitors present their products at this technology exhibition - now called “EuroBLECH” - and more than 50,000 visitors attend the show.
2008
The 20th anniversary show again achieves record results with over 1,520 exhibitors from 38 countries and 69,400 visitors from 98 countries as well as hall space totalling 150,000 m² (gross). As a result, the world’s leading sheet metal working technology exhibition is bigger and more international than ever before.
Loyalty Award
Loyalty Awards were presented for the first time to EuroBLECH’s longest-standing exhibitors at the 20th anniversary event.
Stephen C. Brooks, Chairman of exhibition organisers, Mack Brooks Exhibitions Ltd, and Stephan Weil, Lord Mayor of Hanover, handed out the awards to the dedicated exhibitors on the opening day of EuroBLECH 2008.
The distinguished recipients were LVD Company nv from Belgium, the German companies TRUMPF GmbH und Co KG and Heinrich Georg GmbH Maschinenfabrik, all of whom have continuously exhibited at EuroBLECH since 1974.
