KTT – KTT at the BearingNet user meeting for the first time this year

Another opportunity, another platform, where our colleagues Péter Farkas Process Developer, Attila Pósa Sales and Dávid Wolf Customer Project Manager represented our company.

The BearingNet trading platform was launched 25 years ago to enable companies interested in bearing and drive train technology to trade with each other via the World Wide Web. The platform has evolved and today BearingNet has become the world's largest bearing and power transmission search engine and information service, providing instant access to the inventory of over 2,000 of the world's most important power transmission and bearing distributors.

The annual user meetings provide a great opportunity to meet distributors and manufacturers from all over the world. It's a mix of business and pleasure, with the opportunity to chat in networking sessions, over dinner or even at the bar. At these events, BearingNet members can find new business partners and discover new opportunities, as well as have the chance to put a face to an established name.

The participating members included manufacturing companies as well as trading companies, all of whom came to the conference with the intention of exploring market opportunities from a manufacturing, trading and supply perspective, with their own interests and the interests of the company first and foremost, to find suppliers who can complement their portfolio or provide the parts they need to manufacture, or better still, find a partner company that can even manufacture the specific product they need for them.

This year's annual BearingNet meeting took place in Vienna from 4-6 October at the Savoyen Hotel next to the Belvedere, attracting 500 delegates from over 40 countries. KTT was among the 50 companies attending for the first time, but 167 companies were returning participants.

The venue for the meeting was the hotel's conference room, which was filled with tables for the number of companies attending, where each company could host the companies they had pre-arranged, depending on whether they had their own table or the table of the host company when they had agreed. The meetings were 30 minutes long.

On the first day, at the dinner and get-acquainted evening after registration, it was possible to meet the delegates and get information about the company they represent.

On the second day, round table discussions took place with the pre-registered and pre-agreed companies and their representatives. During the discussions, we tried to get a complete picture of the companies in each of the meetings arranged for that day and to present our own company to our (future) partners, highlighting our potential and our professional knowledge. During the conversation we focused on finding out about common interests, whether it is a product to be manufactured that may be required for their product, or if you are looking for new opportunities in the market, looking for new suppliers that can offer more favourable conditions with the same technical content, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Our aim was therefore to find as many companies as possible that met one of these criteria, and to contact them as soon as possible after the meeting, in order to expand our customer base and establish a fruitful business opportunity with the companies we met.

For us, this meeting was fruitful and useful, as we were able to have fruitful discussions with the selected companies. Several of the companies we met, and their representatives have already contacted us to establish a successful business partnership as soon as possible.

(On the photo from left to right: Péter Farkas, Dávid Wolf, Attila Pósa)