BVAA had a very successful exhibition at Achema in May, where we took the opportunity to ‘debut’ our brand new exhibition stand. Most members seem to have had a very busy show we hear, and BVAA ourselves managed to distribute over 1000 copies of the new issues of Valve User magazine and the famous BVAA DVD! The stand was constantly busy with customers and of course many visitors from the membership and friends. There was even an ad-hoc debate on the merits of RFID tagging, more of which on page 9. Our special thanks to Weir Power & Industrial for all their help at Achema.