2024 Tradeshow Highlights: Insights from Sauer Compressors Canada

As 2024 comes to a close, the Sauer Compressors Canada team shares our insights and reflections on the various tradeshows we attended this year. Each event provided unique opportunities to showcase our products, connect with industry leaders, and gain valuable knowledge about emerging trends and technologies in our field. Below, we’ve summarized our participation and key takeaways from each show.

Canadian Hydrogen Convention

We showcased our HAUG Neptune demo unit at the Canadian Hydrogen Convention, one of Canada’s largest hydrogen industry events. Focused on electrolysis, hydrogen storage, and transportation, the show attracted EPCs, policymakers, and innovators driving the clean energy transition. With excellent turnout and networking opportunities, it proved to be a productive platform to demonstrate our commitment to clean energy solutions.

Electricity Transformation Canada

Walking this event proved to be highly beneficial. This show is tailored to the renewable energy sector, with a strong emphasis on wind, solar, and energy storage solutions. It featured a good mix of EPCs, compressor companies, and exhibitors with active projects in renewable energy infrastructure. The event’s size and focus provided excellent opportunities for networking and exploring potential partnerships in the renewable energy sector.

FABTECH

While not exhibiting, we walked FABTech to gain insights into the welding and fabrication industries. Primarily focused on welding accessories, automation, and advanced manufacturing, the show was less relevant to our applications but provided valuable trends and potential collaboration opportunities in manufacturing.

Compressed Air Best Practices

The “Super Bowl” of the compressor industry, this niche show is highly focused on compressed air systems, energy efficiency, and sustainability. It brought together major players, including manufacturers, distributors, and technology innovators. The event provided excellent opportunities for competitor research, discovering emerging technologies, and forming partnerships with distributors. Canadian representation was limited, but the show attracted many customers actively seeking compressor solutions, making it an ideal venue for engagement and business development.

Gastech

Our German parent company, Sauer Compressors, had a booth at GasTech, and representatives from Sauer Canada, Mexico, and USA joined them. This global show is a premier event for the natural gas, LNG, hydrogen, and low-carbon solutions sectors. It brought together industry leaders, EPCs, and technology providers to explore innovations in energy production and transportation. It was an invaluable experience for learning about cutting-edge technologies and strengthening collaboration across our international teams.

Hydrovision

Hydrovision was a smaller event compared to other U.S.-based tradeshows and appeared to be losing prominence to the emerging Clean Currents show. It is dedicated to the hydroelectric industry, focusing on water power generation, operations, and maintenance. Despite its size, it attracted highly experienced professionals, including engineers, project managers, and industry leaders in the hydroelectric sector. Although floor traffic was lighter than expected, the quality of conversations with experts made it worthwhile.

Carbon Capture

This event focuses on technologies and solutions for carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS). Although the event seemed smaller than in previous years, it remained a valuable forum for engaging with stakeholders in the carbon capture industry. The knowledge bars with guest speakers were particularly insightful, offering perspectives on current trends, challenges, and emerging solutions. However, some projects were in limbo as companies awaited political outcomes that could significantly impact the industry’s future. This show was especially useful for connecting with EPCs and end users with projects further along in development.

We hope this review provides a glimpse into our tradeshow journey and the exciting possibilities that lie ahead for Sauer Compressors Canada.


 

About Sauer Compressors Canada

Sauer Compressors Canada specializes in medium and high-pressure air and gas compressors for applications in general industry, petro-industry, commercial shipping, and the defense sector in the Canadian market.

Sauer Compressors are the global leader in the market for medium and high-pressure compressors, with pressures up to 7,000 psi, rated for continuous duty, and tested in the most demanding conditions to provide true 24/7 reliability. In addition to standard products, we offer customized solutions for our customers, OEMs, and companies that operate on a global stage.

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