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WAI - Wirtschaftsausschuss Industriearmaturen

Economic Situation and Forecast
Committee
Hamburg
Personal Meeting

places available

Free event

Together with our host LESER GmbH & Co. KG, we would like to cordially invite you to the next WAI meeting with a pre-event on November 25/26, 2025 in Hamburg. On the evening before, November 25, we will meet for dinner together at the Port Restaurant in the Hotel Hafen Hamburg at 7:00 pm. The next day (26.11.), the WAI meeting will take place from 09:00 to 14:30 at our member company LESER GmbH & Co. KG in Hamburg.

places available

Free event

Tue. 25.11.25	19:00 - 22:00 hrs.
Wed. 26.11.25	09:00 - 14:30 hrs.

Event location

LESER GmbH & Co. KG
Kontor (EG)
Wenden Str. 133
20537 Hamburg
GERMANY

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Event language

German

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The meeting promises to be another exciting one: With Mr. Yurdakul from James Walker, we will focus on the topic of PFAS, and together with Ms. Caldwell from VDMA North, we will look at the current situation in the international shipping industry.
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Tue. 25.11.25

19:00 - 22:00 hrs.

Network dinner

Restaurant PORT (in the Hotel Hafen)

Wed. 26.11.25

09:00 - 09:10 hrs.

Greeting

-Compliance
-Approval of the agenda

09:10 - 09:50 hrs.

PFAS at a glance

Challenges and fields of action for the sealing industry

Enes Yurdakul

Senior Applications Engineer

James Walker Deutschland GmbH, Hamburg, GERMANY

09:50 - 10:30 hrs.

Coffee break

Katrin Caldwell

Managing Director

VDMA Landesverband Nord, Hamburg, GERMANY

10:30 - 10:50 hrs.

Coffee break

10:50 - 12:00 hrs.

Trade fairs - Review I Outlook

- Industry information on the economic situation
- Project plans in the area of market studies
- Retrospective exchange in accordance with the VDMA compliance program

12:00 - 12:15 hrs.

Trade fairs - Review I Outlook

12:15 - 12:30 hrs.

News from the trade association, dates & locations of next meetings

12:30 - 13:00 hrs.

Lunch

13:00 - 14:30 hrs.

Guided tour through LESER chatroom and test bench

14:30 - 14:30 hrs.

End of the event