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Happy New Year from ISMR, with all our best wishes for 2025!

In the December 2024/January 2025 issue of ISMR, we review the sheet metal industry in 2024 by interviewing global manufacturers at the EuroBLECH sheet metal exhibition on their views of 2024, as well as their plans, projects and market forecasts for 2025. You can read their responses in this issue of ISMR as they highlight new product launches and technology innovations, areas of opportunity and market developments/expectations. Interviewees are listed below:

• Ing. Christian Colombo, CEO, Ficep Group.
• Paul Johnson (CEO, Wilson Tool) and Jason Semerad (CCO, Wilson Tool).
• Stefan Basler, CEO, HAUESLER AG.
• Matt Wood, EU Product Promotion Manager, AMADA.
• André Rombouts, Regional Director for Europe, the Middle East, India and Africa, Hypertherm Associates.

Global aerospace markets for manufacturers are analysed on page 28.  Economic forecasts, trends and movements in the MENA (Middle East and North Africa) region for manufacturers are presented in our regional report on page 31. We outline how sheet metal machinery can learn to ‘see’ using artificial intelligence (AI) on page 38. We also preview the Southern Manufacturing & Electronics exhibition in the UK (page 42) and the TIMTOS exhibition in Taiwan (page 60). Roll forming, surface finishing and coil coating also come under the spotlight in this issue.