Strike derails SENSOR+TEST fair

26th May 2015

SENSOR+TEST

Jordan Mulcare

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Clouded by the two-day strike of the German locomotive engineers union GDL, the 22^nd SENSOR+TEST Measuring Fair in Nuremberg came to an end on the 22^nd of May. After a considerable increase in visitors of about 15% on the first non-strike day of the fair, the exhibitors as well as the organisers had to acknowledge a noticeable decrease on the second and third day.

Developers and researchers from Germany and abroad, who made it to the fair, used the opportunity to delve extensively into the stands of the 548 exhibitors and to obtain in-depth information on the state of the art in sensor, measuring and testing technology at numerous forums.

The parallel scientific AMA Conferences, SENSOR and IRS², were also well attended. Technical presentations by the exhibitors in the open forums, for instance on this year’s focal topic Environmental Measuring Technology, also captivated large audiences.

The €10,000 AMA Innovation Award 2015 was presented on the opening day to a team of young developers from Crystalline Mirror Solutions in Vienna for their innovative development on Ultraprecise Frequency Measurement with Crystalline Semiconductor Mirrors. They had already won the Young Enterprises Special Award garnering a free fair stand at the SENSOR+TEST.

Holger Bödeker, Managing Director, AMA Service, concluded: “We registered a 10% drop in visitors compared to the average of the previous years.”