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Micronora 2008 to Put
Nanotechnology in The Limelight
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Micronora
May 19, 2008
London, UK -- Micronora, the international micro-technology
and high-precision trade fair, will be held from 23 to 26
September 2008 in Besançon (in Eastern France).
In 2008, for the first time, the event will also feature a
Nanotechnology Pavilion, which will be open to both
companies and R&D centres.
Alongside the Nanotechnology Pavilion, there will be a
Competitiveness in Europe Pavilion. This area will feature
three French competitiveness clusters in the field of
precision engineering – Microtechniques, Minalogic and Arve
Industries – as well as Imtek (the Institute for
Microsystems Technology), the German R&D centre. This
pavilion is designed to encourage the sharing of experiences
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In July 2008, France will take over the
presidency of the European Union. In the Europe area,
exhibitors and visitors will find information on EU funds
available for projects in the precision-engineering sector,
as well as news about the major trends affecting current EU
projects (2007-2013).
Micronora 2008
will be placing a special focus on metrology through its
Zoom 2008 programme. Metrology is an essential aspect of
manufacturing that is not yet systematically integrated into
production. Its importance will be reflected in an
Information and Learning area that will demonstrate its
significance as well as current developments in the field.
The Exhibition area will highlight some of the innovative
technological solutions needed to improve the suitability of
measurement processes.
Following NANOMATCH in Frankfurt (Germany) and NANOTEC in
Venice (Italy), Micronora will also host a European
Brokerage event – the sixth Open The Possible: Micro &
Nanotechnology European Technological Encounters – which
will be held on 25 and 26 September. The objective of these
one-to-one meetings is to help microtechnology and
nanotechnology players (companies, research laboratories and
technical centres) develop contacts with their European
counterparts. Whatever sector they are in (transport,
aerospace, biomedicine, optics, instrumentation or
plastics), companies will be able to find the innovative
solutions they are looking for. An online catalogue will
soon be available so that participants may browse
submissions, technology requests and partnership proposals.
Micronora 2008
will also include conferences, which will be held on 24 and
25 September. These conferences will cover micro- and nano-manufacturing,
nano-characterisation, nano-metrology, nano-materials, and
surface processing. Each conference will be presented by a
specialist of international standing.
The Golden Microns prizes will be awarded by a jury of
industry professionals and scientists who are active in the
field of microtechnology. There will be one award per
subject: Class 1 – Microtechnical parts or elements used in
a component; Class 2 – Functional components and complex or
simple modular devices; Class 3 – Devices integrating
microtechnical components; Class 4 – Production tools and
instruments (cutting, moulding and shaping tools, as well as
control instruments); Class 5 – Machine tools and
microtechnical production machines, automated systems and
accessories; and, finally, Class 6 – Microsystems prototypes
reserved for research organisations.
About Micronora
Micronora
(micronora.com) is the international microtechnology and
high-precision trade fair that takes place in Besançon, in
the region of Franche-Comté (in Eastern France), every two
years; it has been going on for 30 years. The next fair will
take place from 23 to 26 September 2008
In 2006, Micronora brought together close to 1,000
exhibitors – 37% of whom were non-French – and welcomed
15,000 professional visitors. The exhibition covered
25,000m2 |
