Practical Vacuum, now in its ninth year since its launch in 1999, has become the leading UK event for all aspects of vacuum technology and semiconductor processing. Acknowledged as the place to find out all that's new in the industry, the exhibition opens February 14th and 15th 2007 at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham. Visitors can now take advantage of the event's pre-registration facility at www.practicalvacuum.co.uk
Exhibitors at Practical Vacuum will include manufacturers, agents and distributors showing products and services allied to industry interests including analysis and inspection, coatings and thin film, cryogenics, CVD, deposition sputtering, electronics, electronics materials and processing, etching and resist stripping, microscopy, plasma science and techniques, process gas, scientific instrumentation, semiconductors, vacuum metallurgy and wafer manufacture.
The success of Practical Vacuum can be highlighted by the 2006 event's visitor profiles that indicate 75 percent of visitors were responsible for, or had influence on, budgets and purchasing decisions. Also, 66 percent of visitors were looking for new products with three-quarters finding solutions to their requirements. In addition, 50 percent of visitors were looking for new suppliers and more than three quarters of them were successful in doing so. Practical Vacuum 2006 was used by 50 percent of visitors to meet existing suppliers and more than a third stated that they used the event to compare several suppliers and products.
Practical Vacuum & Semiconductor Processing will also be co-located at the NEC with a host of other highly focused manufacturing events: Mtec - Sensors, Measurement and Instrumentation featuring Industrial Networks for Fieldbus & Open Systems; Machine Building, Drives and Automation incorporating PneuMotion; IPOT (Imaging, Photonics and Optical Technology), and Machine Vision - the UK's leading vision event and Displays Technology. In addition, 3C and MDT are also co-located alongside in Hall 12
Visitors will enjoy comprehensive access to the latest technology to be found in a variety of industrial disciplines through interlinked halls at the NEC. Pre-registering for Practical Vacuum at www.practicalvacuum.co.uk will enable visitors to receive their free entrance badge prior to the show providing unrestricted access to the other co-located events.
