THE IRREVOCABLE ORGANIZATION OF THE LIGHTING INDUSTRY: THE INTERNATIONAL LED & LIGHTING EXHIBITION '16

The preparations for the International Led & Lighting Exhibition 2016, which is the only meeting point of Turkey and its region in the field of LED technology that has brought the lighting industry into a new age, have begun. Thanks to its renewed rich content and the broadened scope of the exhibition, the 12th Led & Lighting Exhibition to be carried out on October 6th-9th, 2016 is expected to reach better figures of growth and increase in 2016.

Having been founded in 1999 and attaining record growth in the industry of exhibition organization since then, Marmara Fair Organization has set a growth target of 20% for the International Led & Lighting Exhibitions as for all the exhibition organizations it will carry out in 2016. As also indicated by the growth figures which were attained in the previous years and became stable, similar successful growth rates will be reached in the organization of the International Led & Lighting Exhibition 2016 in terms of both the number of exhibitors as well as the net exhibition area and the number of visitors.

As a result of project designing meetings carried out through October, the International Led & Lighting Exhibition presented with its new image and content is expected to attract great attention from the industry in 2016 just like the previous years. Particularly when the positive reactions received from the exhibitors of the year 2015, who have been met initially as a part of the first phase meetings, are taken into consideration, the growth target of 20% set by the executive board for the Led & Lighting Exhibition is already foreseeable.

Moreover, the theme of the Led&Lighting Exhibition in 2016 is the Industry 4.0 meaning the understanding of production based on the communication and data exchange of the autonomous machines developed, which are regarded as the fourth industrial revolution following the steam power, electricity and computer controlled systems led by Germany. While it used to be known by only the specialists of this area, Industry 4.0 and the "Internet of Things" related with it, which have been used in the exhibitions and events organized by Marmara Fair Organization, now will be the main title of the exhibitions to be organized by Marmara Fair Organization in 2016.

Having become a part of the LED lighting market which as a continuously growing and developing industry, Led & Lighting Exhibition maintained its growth in also 2015 in parallel with the industry. 266 exhibitors participated in the Led & Led Lighting Exhibition in 2015 up from 259 in 2014. While the area rented by exhibitors in 2014 was 6,591 square meters, this figure increased to 6,773 square meters in 2015.