Trade Exhibition

The Australian Pipeliner — January 2008

Unsurprisingly, the Trade Exhibition was once again a major highlight of the APIA Annual Convention, with the 2007 Exhibition hosting 45 exhibitors across 56 stands. Companies as usual relished the opportunity to show their equipment and services in a colourful, interesting and worthwhile display for delegates to enjoy in between sessions.

Anode wins best stand

The Trade Exhibition once again heralded the start of a fierce competition – the Best Booth award. Exhibitors made every effort to ensure that their booth would attract plenty of visitors, and there were demonstrations, displays and games aplenty for delegates to enjoy!

As usual, however, there could only be one winner, and this year it was Anode Engineering. Anode had three adjoining booth spaces, themed in the company colours of red and white. The booths incorporated products from a number of their principals including Schoenbeck and Tinker and Rasor. The Anode booth contained demonstrations of a Holiday Detector, which detects faults in coatings on pipelines, and the Elite Vacuum Pipe lifter – seen here for the first time ever in Australia!

The Anode booth was staffed by the Burns family (Wayne, Ros, Stuart and Gayle) as well as John Burton, Allan Sterling, Mark Byerley from Tinker and Rasor and Dave McGuinness from Schoenbeck. The cheery helpfulness and warm welcome provided by the staff in the booth played a major part in Anode winning the award.