EMV Show Review, Europe Market Study Offer Promising Signs
There are two key indicators that the European EMC market is showing signs of steady growth this year.
1. The 2011 EMV Show
At the EMV show, which took place in Stuttgart last month, the number of workshop attendees increased 15% over the last time this event was held in 2009, up from 923 people to 1082. Clearly electronics suppliers and manufacturers are more willing to spend for their engineers to travel. This show is the largest EMC event in Europe and regularly attracts between 100 and 130 exhibitors – click the link below for a breakdown of the supplier segments. I attended this show last year, and was very impressed with how it is configured to allow the attendees and exhibitors to spend “quality time” together. This year, Bob Poust, our business development manager, attended and gives this report:
“At the EMV 2011 show, there were 36 technical sessions in all, and they were very well attended. In fact, they ran out of space for attendees at some of the sessions due to their popularity. There were 1,082 total attendees who booked space at the workshops. There were 113 exhibitors from 13 countries and 2,542 registered attendees. The big announcement at this year’s show was ETS acquiring the German test equipment distributor EMV Elektronische GmbH. The show also had a large area set aside for e-Mobility – a display of several different European electric vehicles. It was clear from discussions with attendees and exhibitors alike that this was a very hot topic. One of the cars was a German equivalent of the US Tesla. Udo Weller, the EMV event director, commented, “Current topics like e-mobility, renewable energy or smart grids create new challenges. EMV 2011 reflects the significance for the EMC industry of the development of these new technologies.” There were several technical presentations throughout the day on the exhibitor floor and those were very popular events too. I heard a lot of very positive comments both about the show and levels of business in Europe; all exhibitors seemed to have a positive view of this event, which is different than what I hear at some other EMC shows. Exhibitors represented the EMC industry as a whole, and included equipment companies, components suppliers and test labs.”
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Europe EMC Market Study
In case you missed some of the market forecasts we published last year in our Overview of the European EMC Market, you can download this free report again here. In addition, RER Research from the UK offers this snapshot of 2007 through 2014 from its January 2011 European Electronic Markets Forecast newsletter (values are in Euros). The indication here is that Western Europe is in fact now completing the predicted transformation from a high volume, more consumer electronics producer to a producer of more specialist, lower volume, and more complex electronics like automotive, industrial and higher end communications like military applications.
References
1. EMV 2011 website: http://www.mesago.de/en/EMV/450__messe-news.htm?ovs_tnid=256
2. Free Download: Interference Technology Overview of the European EMC Market
3. RER: 2011 European Electronics Industry Outlook – http://rer.co.uk/publications/yearbooks/European%20Electronics%20Industry%20Outlook.shtmlAppendixExhibitor Breakdown: EMV 2011 · Antennas (8)· Lightning and overvoltage protection (Surge & Transients) (5)· EMC Services (18)· Ferrites (3)· Filters and Filter Components( 8)· Cables and Connectors (4)· Conductive Materials (3)· Test & Measurement (28)· Shielding (13)· Interference Sources (4)
