Also online at: www.dijonline.co.uk 38 THE door industry journal spring 2024 Industry News R+T 2024 in Top Form An enthusiastic mood among all participants R+T, the world’s leading trade fair for roller shutters, doors/gates and sun shading systems, opened its doors again from 19 to 23 February 2024. A total of 1,020 exhibitors from 43 countries presented their innovations at R+T 2024. The entire Stuttgart Trade Fair Center was booked up solid with a gross exhibition area of 120,000 square metres. 61,232 trade visitors from 146 countries came to Stuttgart to experience the latest products and services in the industry in a live setting. R+T therefore reaffirmed its role as the world’s leading trade fair for roller shutters, doors/gates and sun shading systems strengthening its importance as a global industry meeting point even further. Sebastian Schmid, Vice President of Messe Stuttgart said: “Due to the six-year break, we admittedly had very high expectations regarding the exhibitor and visitor numbers. We are therefore now all the more pleased that these numbers were fulfilled and exceeded.” The motto and accompanying programme captured the spirit of the times. The motto of R+T 2024 “Create. Sustainable. Future. TogetheR+T.” helped to continue its success story. Sustainability was the topic of the current event. The trade visitors were able to see live demonstrations of a large number of innovative solutions with which they fully meet the high standards of consumers. Some of the contents of the accompanying programme were also closely oriented towards the topics of sustainability and energy efficiency and ensured that the trade visitors could purposefully extend their technical knowledge. Well-established accompanying programme items, e.g. the Doors/Gates Forum, the R+T Smart Home Forum, the ES-SO Seminar, the special show entitled ‘Young talents’ or the Craftsmen’s Battle, were staged with the support of the partner associations and media partners. Totally positive feedback R+T 2024 was also a total success from start to finish. “We only saw contented faces on every day of the trade fair,” enthused Roland Bleinroth. “And that applied to everyone: exhibitors, visitors, partners and journalists.” All the exhibition stands – in every hall – were very well-attended. Steffen Schaaf, Head of Sales, Sommer Group said: “R+T was a great success for our company. We attained all our objectives. It was noticeable that an entire industry was pulling together and jointly looking to the future. Our stand was full right from the first day. We conducted many positive discussions with excellent visitors from a wide range of countries. They were interested in our new flood sectional door and our smart home solutions. We not only managed to attend to our regular customers, we also reached a very large number of new potential customers. There was a fantastic atmosphere and the entire organisation was simply superb!” The next R+T will be held at Messe Stuttgart in February 2027. All images: © Copyright: Landesmesse Stuttgart GmbH
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