Jyväskylä, October 3, 2008
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Long Stay and Active Business

Technology 2008 Exhibition at Jyväskylä Paviljonki gathered almost 11,000 visitors

The Technology 2008 Exhibition, closed last Friday, was a success. According to preliminary counts, almost 11,000 professionals of the automation industry visited the Congress and Exhibition Centre Jyväskylä Paviljonki during the three exhibition days. Martti Laisi, Vice Chairman of the Finnish Society for Measurement and Control Technology (SMSY) and Chairman of the Technology 2008 Exhibition Committee, was very satisfied with the time the visitors stayed at the exhibition halls.

”According to preliminary data from the visitor survey, most of the visitors stayed at the exhibition at least for four hours, many of them the whole day or even several days. This indicates that the Technology exhibition is not a place to just stop by, but people are really serious about it and want to take the most of it by familiarizing themselves with as many stands as possible”, Mr. Laisi says and continues: "A factor with even more importance than the number of visitors at technical professional exhibitions is the quality of visitors, and the exhibitors seem to have been very satisfied particularly with this. Both the visitors and the exhibitors received what they had come here for. Regardless of the financial whirlwind, the Technology exhibition proved to be an active business forum once again.”

The Technology 2008 Special Exhibition was arranged at the Congress and Exhibition Centre Jyväskylä Paviljonki between the 1st and 3rd of October. Besides the traditional core in the automation industry, the areas showcased included maintenance, electronics, mechanics, subcontraction and ICT solutions. Products and services of over 1,000 companies from 20 countries were displayed.

The following Technology exhibition is arranged in 2010, October 6 to 8.

For more information on Technology 2008 Exhibition:
Leo Potkonen, Managing Director, Jyväskylä Fair Ltd.,
Mobile +358 (0)500 499 964