Wood Processing Machinery/Intermob: a platform for Turkey and Eurasia

22/07/2015

Together with Poland, Turkey is one of the most promising markets in recent times, with gross domestic product growth rates constantly above 3 percent and inflation at 8 percent, which indicate a strong and structural expansion process.

On the international trade side, it should be added that, besides decreasing import, in 2014 there was an increase of export flows by 5.5 percent.

Coming closer to our industry, woodworking machinery have become a mature business, with technology demand in all segments. Just one figure: in 2014 Italy exported over 40 million euro technology to Turkey, basically in line with 2013.

So, an important marketplace, an entrance door to Eurasia, with a major event scheduled next 10 to 14 October, namely the 28th edition of Wood Processing Machinery (woodworking technology) and the 18th Intermob (supplies and semifinished materials), both at the Tuyap exhibition and congress center in Istanbul.

In 2014 there were 860 exhibiting companies from approximately 30 countries, as direct exhibitors or represented by their import channel partners, who have always managed the flow of technology coming in from across the border. This figure, if we are not wrong, is a record. And another record was established with 60,046 visitors (a bit more than 50 thousand in 2013), coming to Istanbul from 102 countries, as a result of intensive promotion activity by the organizers in many foreign markets, as witnessed by 23 national delegations invited by Tuyap.

As we are going to print, we still don’t have official figures for the next edition, but the information we have collected indicate that 2014 results will be repeated or even exceeded.