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SME
ANNOUNCES THREE MANUFACTURING TRADESHOWS IN 2005
DEARBORN,
Mich. – March 8, 2004 – The
Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) announces the
return of three exciting manufacturing events for 2005.
The Cleveland Advanced Productivity Exposition (APEX),
the Twin Cities APEX and the Houstex APEX event will be taking
place in Ohio, Minnesota, and Texas, respectively.
Expositions
scheduled to take place in these markets in 2003 were postponed
in response to the recession’s impact on the machine-tool
industry. Improved
conditions in the overall economy, coupled with the positive
trends shown in the last few U.S. Machine Tool Consumption
Reports, suggest growing interest in machine-tool purchases.
SME surveyed these geographic areas this year and found
that several manufacturing companies were eager for us to bring
these events back. These
companies shared their capital equipment purchase plans for the
next few years and expressed a need for these tradeshows to
happen again in their regions so they can compare suppliers and
products more efficiently.
SME’s
Advanced Productivity Expositions (APEX) ARE UNIQUE
The
APEX series of events are unique to the industry because the
events represent and are co-sponsored by:
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The
Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) – representing
the end user
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The
Association for Manufacturing Technology (AMT) –
representing the machine tool builder, and
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The
American Machine Tool Distributors Association (AMTDA) –
representing the machine tool distributor.
No
other manufacturing tradeshow incorporates all three important
segments of the manufacturing enterprise into one event.
The
complete APEX schedule of events include:
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HOUSTON
APEX ~ March 1-3, 2005 ~ Houston, Texas
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WESTEC
APEX ~ April 4-7, 2005 ~ Los Angeles, California
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TWIN
CITIES APEX ~
May 3-5, 2005 ~ Minneapolis, Minnesota
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EASTEC
APEX ~ May 24-26, 2005 ~ West Springfield, Massachusetts
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CLEVELAND
APEX ~ June 7-9, 2005 ~ Cleveland, Ohio
For
further information contact the SME Resource Center at
1-800-733-4763 or visit the SME web site at http://www.sme.org
The Society of Manufacturing Engineers is the
world’s leading professional society supporting manufacturing
education. Through
its member programs, publications, expositions, and professional
development resources, SME promotes an increased awareness of
manufacturing engineering and helps keep manufacturing
professionals up-to-date on leading trends and technologies.
Headquartered in Michigan, SME influences more than half
a million manufacturing engineers and executives annually.
The Society has members in 70 countries and is supported
by a network of hundreds of chapters worldwide.
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