Quality of visitors exactly the type of people we want to meet. These are people we would travel to see. It delivered exactly what we want: a mix of buyers we know and many we didn’t, from the car builders and rail authorities. It was a great show. As soon as plans are ready for a return, we will sign up.

Marc J. Gagne, associate vice president, Business Development, TDG Transit Design Group.

In launching our new FireBlock material system for transportation interiors, CCP Composites was looking for a new venue that would provide us with a very focused exposure to the rail, aircraft, and mass-transit marketplace. The 2012 expo in Boston exceeded those expectations as we not only met excellent contacts at our booth, but also from our well-received technical presentation. We look forward to attending the Railway Interiors Expo again!

Rick Pauer, marketing manager, CCP Composites Inc

The show absolutely paid for itself within the first hour of opening. It was a wonderful platform to introduce our new products to existing and new customers.

Ken Rodger, director of Sales & Marketing, Advanced Materials Group, American Acoustical Products

The participants were very focused in their objectives, which makes the overall quality of the expo very good indeed. Many designers and operators took a lot of information about Baultar’s products. We got good traffic from China, Japan, UK and from the usual consultants and car builders.

Denis Vallée, project director, project manager, Baultar

It was the best exhibition we have ever taken part in.

Susan Mingus, US Agent, Beclawat Industrial Division at Prelco

The show exceeded our expectations; all the major industry players visited. We were surprised by the number of visitors to our stand and also by the quality. We hit nine out of 10, on the people we were targeting. This was our first show in the US and was really successful. We look forward to the next edition.

Carlos Duarte, business development director, Amorim Cork Composites

It was a good show. We met mainly North American and some European buyers, all good quality and many new to us.

Michael Schmidt, sales manager Transportation, Nora Systems GmbH

There was a question over whether we should do Europe and in the past we have done [another major European rail event], which covered that area for us. However, the extremely high quality of people we met in Boston stands up for itself and despite reservations on Cologne that is the one factor that presents itself as potentially a great reason to be there.

Craig Berger, founder & CEO, RTR

Good show from standpoint of meeting material suppliers, current customers. Reinforced some current relationships and started new ones. Materials suppliers and way they are working toward what rail operators are looking for a hot topic. It was educational and we were very happy.

Tom Gustafson, sales representative, General Plastics Inc

We were very pleased with the show experience and all the new potential partnerships it helped us achieve both domestically and internationally. A wide range of visitors came by our booth. We also arranged with Amtrak to have 8400 Diner at the local station and the show organizer ran a shuttle bus to and from that site. Visitors were impressed and very happy to have the opportunity to see a piece of in-service rolling stock. We had a very productive Railway Interiors Expo show. We are thinking about Cologne in 2013.

Jonathan Michel, industrial designer, RailPlan International

It was a good show. We met mainly North American and some European buyers, all good quality and many new to us.

Michael Schmidt, sales manager Transportation, Nora Systems GmbH

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