With excellent visitor numbers and a very busy atmosphere in three exhibition halls as well as countless highly qualified professional conversations and new customer contacts, the ninth edition of PaintExpo from 9 to 12 April 2024 was a tremendous success. At the world's leading trade fair for industrial coating technology in the German city of Karlsruhe, 431 exhibitors from 25 countries filled 31,500 square meters of exhibition space with their presentations of new, groundbreaking technologies for the sustainable, energy-efficient coating processes of tomorrow. The event was attended by 10,400 visitors. The number of countries they represented increased from 57 to 76, making this year's PaintExpo more international than ever before. International exhibitors constituted 45 per cent of the total, and more than one in three visitors came from abroad. Exhibitor and visitor satisfaction after the trade fair was extremely high.