Message issue 3/2007 - Messe Stuttgart

Trade Fairs – Marketplaces
Company profile: Lapp AG
Global Player
Machines, robots and computers: none of the modern
equipment in factories and businesses would work
without efficient cables and lines. Württemberg’s Lapp
AG specialises in manufacturing industrial cables. Since it
was founded in 1959, this Stuttgart-based family
business has grown into a corporate group operating on an
international scale, and many of its products have made
cable history.
It started with nothing more than the creativity of
Oscar Lapp, who, in 1957, invented an industriallyproduced,
colour-coded, flexible control lead, which he
called “Ölflex”. Over the course of time, intensive collaboration
with customers and close monitoring of the market
gave rise to a multitude of other innovative products: for
machine and plant construction, the automotive industry,
measurement and control technology, as well as for electrical
engineering, plumbing, transport technology and
energy management. Today, the Lapp Group consists of
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Globally active, locally present: Stuttgart’s Lapp AG headquarters.
companies with 15 production sites, approximately 100
agencies and around 2,700 employees. It is one of the
world’s leading manufacturers and suppliers of industrial
cables, connecting and control cables, data and light wave
conductor cables, connectors and system packaging. Lapp
products are used everywhere: in Shanghai’s Transrapid
system, in Terminal 2 at Munich airport and in the Oresund
Bridge, the world’s longest cable-stayed bridge for
combined road and rail traffic. Over 40,000 stock items
are available to Lapp customers. And for those who cannot
find what they are looking for, the Stuttgart company will
develop and manufacture to measure.
O&S: advancement
New Themes
The international professional
trade fair for O&S surface coatings will
be held for the first time in the halls of
the new Messe Stuttgart from 3rd to
5th June 2008. The joint venture
between Deutsche Messe AG and
Messe Stuttgart is a continued
development of the GALVANICA
professional trade fair for innovative
surface technologies, finishing and
plating, which was held to great
acclaim in Stuttgart in May 2006. This
subsequent O&S event has adopted
the additional topic area of lacquering
technology into its portfolio and is
receiving prominent support as a
result: the specialist department for
surface engineering in the VDMA trade
association for general ventilation
technology is, with immediate effect,
the ideal O&S medium.
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