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Vive la Pollutec 2008 or how to survive the fair in Lyon

The 23rd Pollutec was held in France from the 2nd to the 5th of December. Alternating with Paris as always, the fair was staged in the city of Lyon again this year. The Pollutec had always been a good indicator for the French-speaking market so that the whole industry was looking towards France this year with curiosity.
The question was simple; what effect would the economic crisis have on the environment and ecology fair? To come straight to the point, there was no sign of a crisis. The crowds that came on the first day had never been so big. The EUREXPO fair company opened its gates punctually at 9 am and by 10 am the halls and aisles were buzzing with an interested professional public.

It was our French distributors VIDHOP in Feillens and MDS who were largely responsible for the good preparation for the fair and planned a strong joint presentation in advance. We had never presented so many of our products at the Pollutec before. From the simple, practical ROCAM slide camera to the fully equipped RICO inspection vehicle, the HIGHLANDER RPP© and the “fat guy” – the big FW300 tractor - RICO exhibited German top quality in the field of TV inspection technology in France. Our products were also used by other exhibitors such as BONNEFOY and ENREGIS and created the necessary stir of interest. MDS also presented radar solutions and VIDHOP its “Cyclops” well camera among other things. It soon became apparent how pre-emptive this was.

The number of visitors was even more on the next two days. The attendance on Thursday, the 4th of December finally broke the record. Although MDS, VIDHOP and RICO had a staff of nine people working continuously at times, coping with the crowds was a real challenge. And it was soon a success. The second customer of the first day ordered the first measuring system. The number of direct orders built up steadily and there were twice as many top-class inquiries in 2008 as last year.
The official fair figures are not yet available but the fair company estimates more than 70,000 visitors. I particularly remembered one slogan: "You can hang the crisis in the cloakroom at the Pollutec 2008”.

Oh and by the way, how to survive Lyon – drink very little Champagne and pretend to understand what your French colleagues are talking about at least a little.

We are ready for the next Pollutec (Paris). See you there

A further HIGHLANDER for KOHL

At the end of July we were able to hand over another HIGHLANDER in the Kempten factory of Andreas KOHL from Borna. This carriage is the third and this time of course in the tried and tested standard version, and is equipped with the "Digital picture editing RPP®". The newest WinCan V8 version serves as pipe evaluation software here. This has recently allowed the viewer to move “completely freely” in the pipe using the free view sight programme. This can be done in the office at the click of a mouse.

This carriage was handed over to KOHL with great pleasure by our sales manager Mr SCHERM.

30 Years of experience

We are present at the exposition Vodovody-Kanalizace 2008

from 20th May to 22nd May 2008 in Brno / Czech Republic

For further information www.okomessenbrunn.de

We are present in the exposition IFAT 2008

from 05th May to 09th May 2008 in Munich / Germany

You will find us at the booth 417 in hall B5
For further information www.ifat.de

We are present in the exposition Smagua 2008

from 11th March to 14th March 2008 in Zaragoza / Spain

You will find us at the booth 417 in hall B5
For further information www.smagua.com

We are present in the exposition Pollutec in France

from 27th November to 30th November 2007 in Paris

You will find us at the booth G 065
For further information www.pollutec.com

We are present in the exposition Riolering in the Netherlands

from 09th October to 12th October 2007 in Hertogenbosch

You will find us at the booth 34.
For further information www.riolering.net

Great meeting for our sales and authorized service partners

13. and 14. September 2007 at the Hotel Mövenpick in Neu-Ulm

We are present in the exposition dtexehibition 2007 in England

on 05th and 06th September 2007 in Cheltenham Racecourse

You will find uns at the booth F1.
For more information www.dtexhibition.com

We are present in the exposition VILLE SANS TRANCHEE

on 12.13.14 June 2007 at Rosny-sous-Bois (Paris)

You will find us at the booth C19

RICO on the exhibition SEP Waste Technologies

from April 18th to 21st 2007 in Padua (Italy)

» more about SEP Waste Technologies

RICO on the Ro-Ka-Tech exhibition

from 29 th march to 31 st march 2007 in Kassel

Automatic bushing gap measuring with RPP^®

As of now with RPP^® at the push of a button an automatically joint routine can be done.

With the intelligent software RPP^® a bushing gap can get measured automatically by pressing only one button. The following values are immediately available:

- Median of the whole bushing
- Standard deviation = Dispersion
- minimum distance
- maximum distance
- Gap Detection

RPP^® - RICO PICTURE PROCESSING

Machine Vision within sewer, now available also in 50Hz technology

Possibility of faster inspections - up to 20 cm/s. Once more improved picture quality.