2022 edition

The only such event in Poland

Since its first edition, the FASTENER POLAND^® Fair has been described as a "rarity" on a European scale. Manufacturers and distributors of fasteners from the farthest corners of the world come to Krakow for two days. This year, as many as 65% of exhibitors came from abroad, including China, Czech Republic, Estonia, India, Malta, Germany, Sweden, Taiwan, Turkey, USA, Hungary and Italy. They did not hide their satisfaction with their decision to participate in the event, as the Polish market is very attractive to them.

This year's edition of the FASTENER POLAND^® Fair has been very successful for me. I gained a lot of valuable business contacts in Poland. We had a few customers from Poland before, but now we see that Poland is still a growing market for us, and we see that production that up to now took place in East Asia is now moving to this region, and our parts are as suitable as possible for this type of production process - said Joel Alexandersson from the Swedish company REHOBOT ROTEX AB.

Ayza Akmut from the Turkish company ISB FASTENERS expressed a similar opinion. – We are very pleased to be here at FASTENER POLAND^®. We had many meetings with visitors and I think we will meet them in the future. We gained a lot of knowledge and contacts at the fair. We often send emails presenting our services to other companies, but they don't open them because they don't know us at all. That's why trade fairs are so important to us. Here they can see us, get to know us, and see who we are. This makes us successful. We will definitely see you at the next edition because this one was very fruitful for us.

Domestic companies also used the fair to expand their contact base: – “Personal contacts have been significantly reduced over the past two years. We rarely met face to face, whereas today, thanks to the fact that the restrictions have been reduced or removed altogether, we can meet and refresh our relations. With some clients, we have the opportunity to get to know each other or meet for the first time, and I think this is very, very positive. Many of us have been waiting a long time for the opportunity to organize a trade fair and exhibit," said Tomasz Karwowski of DROMET.

Contacts and knowledge

FASTENER POLAND^® was a combination of a trade show exhibition and an extensive training program. The scope of the exhibition included, among others: state-of-the-art industrial fasteners and fixings (from bolts to nuts, studs, and wedges); construction fasteners (anchors, concrete bolts, facade and insulation fixing); advanced assembly and installation systems, as well as fastener manufacturing technologies and fastener storage and distribution equipment. 

From the numerous conversations held with exhibitors at the fair, just one conclusion can be drawn: the fastener industry is doing well – very well, even. The conference "The challenging world of manufacturing: from supply chains to distribution" turned out to be a hit. Knowledge and experience were shared by well-known experts who spoke, among other things, about Poland's prospects for 2022-2026 under the current market perturbations, flexibility in the context of the bidding process, anti-dumping and the associated threat to importers, and whether the crisis is an opportunity or a threat.

This year's fair also included FASTENER POLAND^® B2B Meetings – cooperation meetings organized in a hybrid formula by the Krakow Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Enterprise Europe Network center. On October 19-20, participants met in person in a comfortable exhibition space, and after the fair, until October 28, on a dedicated electronic platform.