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[September 2004]
Themed Areas Introduced for BAU Building Exhibition
Changes have been announced by Messe Muenchen GmbH to its BAU exhibition. Its first announcement is that BAU 2005 will be the biggest building materials trade fair that has ever been held in Munich, Germany. From 17-22 January 2005 over 1,800 exhibitors from 40 countries are expected to present their goods and services on a total area of 170,000 square metres in 16 exhibition halls.
Messe Muenchen said that over recent years, BAU had increasingly shifted from being a showcase for individual components to becoming a platform for the presentation of complete systems. The emphasis is on moving from individual building materials to building themes.
As a result, an extra component is being introduced at BAU 2005. Alongside the familiar division according to building materials, the fair will now be structured according to product and theme areas. This will make it easier for visitors to find their way around the wide range on display in the 16 halls.
Amongst the areas of interest to ceramic manufacturers and their customers are the following:
* Roofs, Walls, Facades: products, systems, materials, processes and techniques for the design and construction of roofs, walls and facades are brought together in the northwestern part of the exhibition centre (B1, B2, B3, B4, C1, C2 C3).
* Flooring, Tiles, Ceramics: the entire spectrum of floorings, from wooden floors to flexible and textile floor coverings, parquet, laminates, tiles and ceramics - all in one area in the east of the centre in halls B6, A6 and A5.
* Mineral-Ore Based Building Products and Building Chemistry: another integrated section is the complex of mineral-ore based building products in A1, A2 and A3. On show here will be stoneware, sand-lime products, concrete, pumice, bricks, fibre-cement based materials, plasters and renders, screeds and insulating materials. Building chemistry is a special case - at BAU 2005 it will be the link between mineral-ore based products and tiles/ceramics.
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