FBF Betondienst

61^st BetonTage convention: Precast concrete industry reports growth

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Reinhold Messner opened the 61. BetonTage

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The Institute for Structural Design of the Braunschweig University of Technology was awarded the Innovation Prize of the Supplier Industry for Structural Concrete Products 2017 (from left to right: Christian Jahn, BFT International, Prof. Harald Garrecht, head of the jury, Prof. Harald Kloft, Braunschweig University of Technology, and Dr. Ulrich Lotz, FBF Betondienst GmbH)

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The accompanying exhibition generated a great deal of interest

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Full lecture halls also in the

afternoon

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Figures 6-10: BFT International

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The construction economy is in a positive mood, and so were the delegates at this year’s BetonTage convention in Neu-Ulm. Some 2,100 participants from 20 different countries attended the get-together of the precast concrete industry from February 14 to 16, 2017.

The event of long-standing tradition had taken “Shaping places for people” as its theme and presented a comprehensive specialist program. The focus was on recent developments in the fields of concrete engineering, manufacturing processes and standardization. The accompanying exhibition with a total of 160 booths provided an overview of...