During the WIRE 2012 more than 100 experts in springs coming from 18 different nations participated in the “ESF – International SPRING MAKERS MEETING” on 28.03.2012 in Düsseldorf.
Very interesting themes have been offered like the “Mechanical engineering industry worldwide” presented by Anke Uhlig, Market Research Manager of the VDMA – German Engineering Federation.
And reports were given about “The actual situation of the spring industry” in Europe, USA, Japan and Korea presented by executives of the corresponding national spring maker’s associations and completed by contributions given by the audience.
Finally there was a presentation of the team ISO/TC 227 – Springs currently working on new international standards for cold formed springs and for hot formed springs given by the secretary of this team ISO/TC 227 – Springs.
At the end there was a fine ESF – International COME-TOGETHER-DINNER with more than 120 guests from 14 different Nations enjoying first a warm evening at the bank of the Rhine River and later interesting talks until late at night.

All speeches have been put on the ESF homepage and can be downloaded here:
Dr. Muhr – Spring Industry in Europe
A. Uhlig – Mechanical engineering industry worldwide
K. Inoue – Spring Industries in Japan
S.H. Hur – Spring Industry in Korea
S. Aiba – Standardization for springs – ISO/TC 227
S. Moreland – US spring industry

The next ESF INTERNATIONAL SPRING MAKERS MEETING will be held on March. 28, 2012 at the CCD Congress Center on the WIRE area.

The COME-TOGETHER-DINNER will take place on March 28,2012 – 18.00 h at hotel-restaurant Schnellenburg, near WIRE area – www.schnellenburg.de -

Please find here the latest informations of ESF after the Board-Meeting in Paris 2011-09-22!

The 6th International ESF congress of Spring will be held on Sept. 23, 2011 at hotel Concorde Lafayette, 3 place du Général Koening – 75017 Paris – Tel. 01 40 68 50 68 – Métro Porte Maillot.

Here you can find the invitation by the president of ESF, the  program, the booking form No. 1, the booking form No. 2,

We will be happy to welcome you at the congress.

The next ESF-Board-Meeting will take place on May 6, 2011 in the Hotel Rivoli, 50123 Firenze

registration for members only!

contact@esf-springs.org

The next ESF board meeting will take place on 01.10.2010 at 14:30 h in Gothenburg / Göteborg – Sweden

registration for members only here 

2010-10-01 participation form Gothenburg

ESF Seminar 21st October 2009; 9:00 h – 17:30 h with SpringTech Presentations and Business Presentations in the Stratford Manor Hotel in Stratford-upon-Avon for details please contact.

Institute for Spring Technology Ld
Henry Street
Sheffield S3 7EQ, United Kingdom
Tel.: +44 (0)114 276 0771
Fax: +44 (0)114 252 7997
E-mail: ist@ist.org.uk
Internet: www.ist.org.uk

“Key challenges of the spring manufacturing industry”
an international seminar on 19. and 20.10.2007 in Palma de Mallorca
dealing with economic, legal and technical subjects.