August 2024 Volume 6

OPERATIONS & MANAGEMENT

Your Industry Event Choose events pertinent to your industry and frequented by your target audience, considering factors like event size, reputation, and attendee profile. Attending the most relevant events ensures you reach customers and partners who have a genuine interest in your offerings. A great example of an opportunity to reach customers in the forging industry is of course, Forge Fair, North America’s largest forging industry trade show. Exhibit opportunities are now available for Forge Fair, which will take place in Cleveland, OH, May 13-15, 2025. Forge Fair attendees include: • Forging producer company executives • Forge plant managers

• Seamless rolled ring forging • Hot, warm and cold forging • P/M forging and extrusion

• Ferrous, nonferrous and high-temperature materials • Conventional, precision and net shape production

Trade shows and targeted industry events, like Forge Fair, are valu able tools in the marketing strategies of manufacturing compa nies. By establishing clear objectives, selecting appropriate events, designing engaging booths, using pre-event marketing effectively, and ensuring diligent follow-ups, manufacturers can improve visi bility, generate leads, and build industry relationships. For more information on Forge Fair 2025, please visit www.Forge Fair.com or contact info@forging.org. Niamh Field Digital Marketing & Sales Specialist Forging Industry Association Phone: 216-781-6260 Email: niamh@forging.org

• Engineering and maintenance supervisors • Energy, technical and operations managers • Suppliers to the forging industry • Students and educators

Attendees represent custom, captive and catalog forging companies involved in a range of forging processes and materials, including: • Impression die forging • Upset forging • Open-die forging

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