"Article of the editing of the magazine “Trasportare Oggi in Europa”, published in number 88 of april 2005 "
To speak about fair event with an own identity appears excessive; but if we watch the appointment of Parma like the springboard of launch for the new Transpotec Logitec of the next year, we find some interesting starting points
Unfortunately we are not neither France, neither Holland and not even Great Britain, where the entrepreneurial culture, also in the logistics sector, it is surely developed much more than here, but above all the Italian entrepreneurial field, like it is know, it’s made of small and smaller operators, attracted more from the truck that from the convention, more from the event rather than from the advanced technology.
“Tecnologie Trasporti su Strada” has proposed a manifestation rich of contents, highly professional and of great added value, starting from the two conventions of friday and saturday, up until the seminaries of the plan "Accademy"...
...perhaps, at Parma, it was expected a more important affluence and a greater dynamic of the event, justifying the effort of three days however binding under the economic profile and of resources. Sure, we must say, it is conviction of many, that the quality of the contacts obtained in the cold weekend of Parma, balance the lacked amount of frequency between the corridors of the pavilions and we hope in a positive development of the so-called post-fair.
The habitué of the Halls of the transport and the logistics surelly did not lack, not being able to lack at this “window display” that, if also local, is tied to the greater sister (Transpotec Logitec), but between the innovationes are the important new entries, like the Continental, leader producer of tires that has decided for the first time to throw itself directly in the market with it’s own Truck division, or like the new Merker, acquired of recent from the Margaritelli Group and determined to obtain in the market the right space for a company that possesses one of the most modern systems for the production of semitowings. At TTS 05, however, for the first time have arrived, also the Chinese, with a product that will become soon of the great topicality, the reflecting tape: it is the DM (Dao Ming) that in Italy commercializes the Aurora tape.
There is finally who, still not having the product, has wanted to invest in this manifestation, to find trade partners and to begin to introduce an innovative idea in the field of the security: it is the TETRA accident-prevention device, devised from the young man Paolo Castorino, constituted from a blinking polyhedron to apply on the corners or the protrusion parts of whichever towing, semitowing or vehicle in phase of loading and unloading...