Friday, October 16, 2009

Day 8: Fakuma Trade Show

Thursday, Oct. 15
After a lovely 5 a.m. start to the day we all gathered in the lobby of the hostel at 6 to head to the train station. The train ride to Romanshorn was quick, lasting only about a half hour and then we waited for the ferry to take us across to Lake Constance to Friedrichshafen, Germany where we attended the Fakuma Trade Show. This show focuses on injection molding and extrusion industries.

It was much larger than we anticipated, consisting of 11 buildings, one of which focused solely on extrusion. Our first three hours at the show we spent wandering the first five buildings. During these first hours we had the opportunity to see many interesting things, like a display featuring a Nestal injection molding machine running a 4 cavity stack mold at a 2.97 second cycle time. Also there was a robot display that was running incredibly fast. (Video to come). Another interesting part of the show was the amount of rapid prototyping equipment that was on display.

After meeting with the class at noon we were instructed to meet back up at 2 p.m. and then we were going to head back to St. Gallen. The journey back was pretty uneventful and upon arriving in St. Gallen everyone was exhausted and took a quick nap before hitting the town. After waking up and getting another excellent authentic Swiss meal we wandered around to several bars before making a stop at a bar close to the hostel. There we met some local college students and spent several hours talking with them and cruising around to some different clubs. It was a late night full of fun and excitement. Should be interesting to see what tomorrow brings.
(Pictured above, a rapid prototyping display at the Fakuma Trade Show.)

1 comment:

  1. We are contacting you for a good business relationship, am a representative to gold mining company here in Accra Ghana. We have a gold dust and bars up to 500kg that is ready for sell; we are looking for direct and reliable buyer who is willing to come to Ghana for inspection in order build trust before we do any transaction. We work with PMMC as registered agent attached to them. And we are capable of supplying your demand of gold dust, gold bar, Nuggets, & Diamond per monthly demand depending on the quantity, if you are a serious buyer and ready to buy our products affordable prices. We deal directly with buyers and our procedure is very simple, we operate in 2 ways, you can buy from us directly and you can buy from us through PMMC, we ship to buyer's destination.
    Don't hesitate to contact me if you have any question or anything you need to know about our company or our commodity.
    Looking forward to hear from you.
    Best regards,
    Mr.Eddy Mensah.
    Representative
    Best regards,
    Reply to bulliongoldhome@yahoo.com

    ReplyDelete