Messe Stuttgart and the German-Slovak chamber of industry and commerce organize a Lasys Meets Central Europe event, on 30-31 May 2017 in Trnava, Slovakia, focused on laser applications for the automotive industry. The event will bring together suppliers of laser production systems, laser-specific machine subsystems, components, processes and services, and industrial users. The Trnava region has a large number of industrial companies, especially from the automobile production sector, which is rapidly growing throughout Slovakia.
The event aims to demonstrate to potential of lasers to increase quality and production to interested laser users from the automobile and automotive component supply industries and other branches of industry. The Slovakian automobile industry produced in 2016 more than one million cars, for the second year in succession, and is leading to rising demand for laser technology. The expansion of the Volkswagen plant in Bratislava and production at the new Jaguar-Land Rover plant scheduled to start in mid-2018 have provided a further boost to the investment plans of local companies.