Messe Düsseldorf to Install HEPA Filtration
The fairgrounds for the triennial K Show in Germany will have 3000 HEPA filters installed by July 3, cleaning the halls’ air and boosting the heating and cooling systems’ efficiency.
Messe Düsseldorf and the Düsseldorf Congress center—home to the triennial K Show among other large trade shows—are currently adding HEPA filtration to clean the air of 99% of viruses, bacteria and particulates, while also improving the heating and cooling efficiency of the fairground’s heating, cooling and ventilation. By July 3, a total of 3000 filters will be installed. In mid-June, Messe Düsseldorf announced that Halls 1, 9-17, and the Congress Center Düsseldorf CCD had already been refitted. The fair organizer noted that 80% of the EUR 1.4 million invested to add the filters was paid by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection as part of a funding program.
In a press release, Wolfram N. Diener, president & CEO of Messe Düsseldorf said the new HEPA filters will help ensure that the fairgrounds can offer all guests the greatest possible protection. “In combination with our high-performance ventilation system, our voluntary hygiene measures, our spacious premises and halls,” Diener said, “we reduce the infection risk to a minimum.”
Messe Düsseldorf noted that the new HEPA filters complement the fairground’s existing ventilation system. The fully automatic system features 60,000 measuring points to ensure optimal air quality, while supplying the halls with 10 million m3 of fresh, outside air every hour via 10 km of ventilation pipes. The HEPA filters can reduce the heating and cooling energy consumption of the ground’s ventilation systems when outside temperatures are low by mixing the outside air, which has been filtered, with warm hall air.
The last K staging in 2019 recorded 3330 exhibitors from 63 countries covering 177,000-m2 net exhibition space. The show welcomed 224,116 attendees—73% of whom come from abroad. Months after the show was staged, the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic put a halt to many public gatherings, including trade shows, with many major plastics events like NPE and Chinaplas, canceled in the intervening years.
The next K Show this October will feature halls with HEPA-filtered air.
Photo Credit: Messe Düsseldorf
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