African exhibitions company, Exhibition Management Services (EMS), has acquired the well-established AfriMold exhibition brand, which becomes a component show of the comprehensive South African Industry and Technology Fair (INDUTEC).

The 12-in-1 INDUTEC event is the logical co-location of several individual long-running EMS-staged industrial shows, all under one umbrella banner.

AfriMold takes place alongside 11 other INDUTEC exhibitions at Gallagher Convention Centre, Midrand from 20-22 May 2015.

AfriMold moving into Africa

“We added the AfriMold Expo to the INDUTEC Fair because it is a perfect fit with the event’s other industrial and technological sectors,” says John Thomson of show organisers EMS.

“AfriMold is a vital networking hub for showcasing innovations and solutions in all stages of product development by local and international exhibitors.”

Exhibitors will showcase equipment and services for functions such as design, material selection, simulation, visualisation, computer-aided design, engineering and manufacturing, rapid prototyping and tooling, patternmaking, precision machining, mould-making, machine tools, automation, processing and finishing.

This fifth edition of AfriMold will also highlight the huge advances in 3D printing and additive manufacturing.

“3D printing, or additive manufacturing, has advanced significantly since it was first developed,” says Ron Maclarty, EMS organiser of AfriMold.

“Originally, only plastic prototypes could be printed, but these machines can now handle materials like titanium and human cartilage, and produce almost any fully functional complex mechanism, with greater precision, at a faster rate, and at lower cost.”

With AfriMold joining the INDUTEC umbrella, visitors and exhibitors can now interact through a wider variety of industries such as plastics, electrical, automation, design, petrochemical and energy, with companies from Italy, Germany, England, Nigeria, India, Turkey and China at the show.

“Tooling and precision machining is used in all industries, and this multi-show format radically increases business-to-business networking and cross-sector opportunities for visitors and exhibitors. AfriMold connects them, from design through to finished product,” adds Maclarty.

“AfriMold exhibitors are definitely looking at doing business in Africa. As South African and American supermarket chains move into Africa, they exert a pull-effect on infrastructure projects which boost manufacturing demand, creating huge business opportunities.”