CLAMPCO NEWS

Established in 1909, The Paris Air Show holds the title of the world’s oldest and also the world’s largest airshow. It is held at Le Bourget Airport in Paris, which is where Charles Lindberg landed after his 1927 solo flight across the Atlantic in the Spirit of St. Louis. Almost 142,000 trade visitors and more than 180,000 members of the general public explored the 1,400,000 square feet of exhibition space in Paris. Close to 300 official delegations from 91 countries and 2,303 exhibitors from 48 countries attended the show. Coverage from 3,450 accredited journalists and 130 billion dollars of orders make the Paris Airshow the world’s largest aeronautics marketplace.

Last year Clampco attended and exhibited at the Farnborough Airshow in London, which is the second largest show in the world. The Farnborough and Paris Air Shows are held in alternating years. At Farnborough, the Clampco team  discovered that the current aerospace clamp market was underserved and there was a lot of interest from the aerospace community in having another aerospace clamp manufacturer choice in addition to Voss Aerospace and Eaton Aeroquip.That began Clampco’s journey to AS9100 accreditation. 

Clampco’s Sales and Management team attended the Paris Airshow in June and co-exhibited with the State of Ohio in the U.S. Pavilion at the Show. The Clampco team was again able to obtain a State of Ohio Grant to defray approximately 50% of the cost of attending and exhibiting in Paris this year. These shows give Clampco exposure to the entire global aerospace market, which was estimated to be worth $838 billion in 2017. This number included all activities pertaining to the development, production, maintenance and support of aircraft and spacecraft.