Exhibition Review

Exhibitors were full of praise for WWEM 2008, citing an excellent and high-quality attendance, informative and worthy conference topics and overall organisation as key reasons for a successful exhibition.

Intellitect Water has developed a unique technology for continuous monitoring of water in the pipeline distribution network. Commenting on the company’s experience at WWEM, Intellitect CEO Tony Halker, said, “We were delighted with the response that we received to our products. We are creating a new market for monitoring the UK’s largest unmonitored asset, so, as a specialist event targeted at the monitoring community, WWEM provided an excellent opportunity for us to discuss the enormous benefits that our technology can provide with key people from both the UK water sector and overseas.”

Exhibitors were full of praise for WWEM 2008, citing an excellent and high-quality attendance, informative and worthy conference topics and overall organisation as key reasons for a successful exhibition.
Dr Rayne Longhurst, Commercial Manager at exhibitors EnPrint said: “WWEM 2008 was my first exhibitor’s event and was delighted with the excellent exposure for our company, stimulating discussions with visitors and hopefully some useful contacts made over the two days.”

Tony Hoyle, ABB UK Flow Products Manager said, "We found the exhibition and workshops very focused this year. Many more industrial PPC operators came along in addition to the UK Water industry professionals. The workshops that we gave were well attended and highlighted interest in achieving compliance with Effluent Flow Monitoring arrangements and MCERTS. We were also very pleased to receive our First closed-pipe electromagnetic flow meter MCERTS certificate for WaterMaster. A lot of interest was also shown in our new Analyser platform and videograhic recorders - a great event all round."

HACH LANGE participated in the WWEM exhibition and Marketing Manager Sarah Blayds said,”We were delighted with both the volume and quality of enquiries that we received for our process monitoring equipment and our laboratory analysis instruments and reagents. It was also very pleasing to note the level of interest that we received in the cooperation that we have established with MWH for real-time control of nutrient removal with increased efficiency and lower energy costs for activated sludge systems.”

Simon Wyre, Director of Monitoring Systems said," Generally, I thought the organisation of the event was good and we received a number of good quality enquiries."

Chris Welsh, Managing Director of Cogent Environmental added: "We found the WWEM 2008 exhibition to be well attended by the right sort of customers for our products.”

YSI Hydrodata also participated in the WWEM exhibition at which the company launched two exciting new products.
In the field of river discharge and bathymetry YSI SonTek unveiled a new River Surveyor instrument employing the latest Acoustic Doppler Profiler (ADP) technology. The new device operates an incredible 9 beams and provides a host of new features which deliver superb accuracy across the range of riverine conditions from 15cm to 80m depth.

For the measurement of water quality, YSI launched the new 'big 4' (temp, conductivity, pH and dissolved oxygen) model from the 'Professional' range of water quality meters. The Professional Plus can also measure one of ammonium, nitrate, chloride or redox.

Commenting on the Exhibition, YSI’s Ian Thompson said, “WWEM was a fantastic event for YSI Hydrodata; our stand was extremely busy on both days and as such we were able to demonstrate the new products to a large number of existing and potential customers."

Keith Flint, Sales and Marketing Director at Pulsar Process Measurement, added: “Overall we had a very successful two days at WWEM 2008. The event has grown significantly from the previous exhibition and we were delighted with the number and quality of visitors to our stand. We will be following up a number of interesting enquiries as a result of our attendance at WWEM.”

Guy Fitzpatrick, Business Development/Product Marketing Manager (Monitoring & Control) at ITT Water and Wastewater added: “We found the exhibition run very efficiently by a very friendly team. Thanks to all involved.”

Simon Wills, OTT Hydrometry Managing Director, was delighted with his company’s participation in WWEM 2008. He reports a good number of new enquiries, one of which has already resulted in an order for a large number of the ‘Orpheus Mini’ borehole water level loggers. “As a specialist event, we don’t expect vast crowds but the quality of the visitors was extremely high – every visitor to our stand had a genuine interest in monitoring water quality level or flow.”

Peter Ward, Senior Product Manager at Mobrey Measurement Division, Emerson Process Management, was another delighted exhibitor. “WWEM 2008 was very well organised with a good level of attendance,” he explained. “We had some worthwhile discussions with customers and a good level of positive enquiries.”

Roger Powell, Sales Director at Process, Measurement and Analysis, added: “The overall PMA experience was very positive. We met a significant number of new potential customers including both industrial and food processing sector companies. The hall itself was well laid out, with an ever-expanding mix of truly excellent exhibits. We are looking forward to returning in WWEM 2010.” Michael Strahand, General Manager (Europe) for ATi, said: |“ATi thoroughly enjoyed all aspects of WWEM 2008 and are already considering what they will do at the next WWEM. Our stand was busy on both days and some new and exciting potential customers spent time with us. Marcus Pattison and his excellent team did a great job organising everything and the dodgems especially were much appreciated despite the fact that an ATi salesperson fractured his arm while ramming into a delegate! Good show, we'll be back."

Partech’s Angus Fosten added: “WWEM 2008 was the best exhibition that Partech has attended for many years. A great launch for our new brand image.”

Pollution and Process Monitoring’s Sales and Marketing Manager Steve Tuck, said: “WWEM 2008 was a good opportunity for networking and the whole event was organised very well.”

Jason Venn, International Account Manager at PG Instruments, added: “Over the two days we received a good number of qualified leads which we will hopefully be able to turn into sales. The attendance was good and if we these enquiries turn to sales then we would definitely appear again.”

Visitors and delegates at WWEM 2008 commented very favourably on the event. James Carlyle, General Manager at Ashtead Technology Rentals said, “As a supplier of instrumentation for hire, we need to be aware of all the latest technological developments and as such WWEM was a great opportunity to see almost all of the water instrumentation sector under one roof. As a result of my visit, I anticipate being able to add several new products to our instrument portfolio.”

Commenting on WWEM 2008, Ian Mewett, ICA Project Engineer at Yorkshire Water, said, "I would like to thank the whole team of organisers for the WWEM 2008 exhibition, I was only able to attend on the second day, but found it very informative as well as a great opportunity to check out what is happening in the industry, again many thanks for all your effort. I will be looking forward to the next WWEM in November 2010."