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SIMPLIFIED PLAN

SILMO PARIS
AS ALTERNATIVE TO

2020

recovery of business among opticians organisation has chalked out plans
and heartened by favourable results to meet with opticians in France and
in keeping with our determined throughout Europe from October to
criteria, we felt confident we would November 2020, through events that
n view of the global health crisis, honour its commitment to support
the Silmo executive board and its be able to confirm that the 2020 the industry. This unprecedented
I partner COMEXPOSIUM, have edition would indeed be held operation will begin on 4 and 5
th
from 2 to 5 October at Paris Nord
nd
taken the decision to cancel Silmo October 2020 at the heart of Paris,
2020 in Paris. Villepinte. to be repeated every Monday in the
“However, at this juncture where
The announcement is of course month of October in a different city,
disappointing for the organisers the registered exhibitors were about such as Bordeaux, Lyon, Rennes and
and participants but considering to make additional expenditures to Brussels.
the current circumstances, there finalise their participation in the trade The Silmo d’Or awards are
was no choice. However, they have fair, and where visitors were about however on, open to all the
reiterated their commitment to to begin making travel plans, there companies registered to date. And
guide the industry into 2021 and to were still uncertainties as to whether once again this year, Silmo Academy
this end have formulated a simplified the trade fair would be able to take will issue a scholarship to support a
plan for this year. place as planned.” scientific research project in vision

In a communique to its partners, When this decision was shared and optics.
Amélie Morel, chairwoman of the on 23 July, Silmo Paris 2020 already Through a specialised application,
Silmo Association wrote, “Since the had 688 registered exhibitors in Silmo Next – a laboratory of ideas,
beginning of the worldwide health spite of the crisis the world is going a forum for inter-professional
and economic crisis, we made clear through, pointing once again to the discussions, and a showcase for
commitments and established esteem in which Silmo is held – an creation and innovation – has been
extensive measures to protect and event that is much more than a trade developed to present the summary
guide the companies of our industry fair for the industry. of the work that began two years
throughout this particularly difficult In these extraordinary ago, probing into the future of the
period. . . Encouraged by the distinct circumstances, Silmo has drawn sector, product developments, and
up a simplified plan to pursue its the optical profession on the theme
NEW DATES commitment to guide the industry’s “Towards a techno-responsible
NEXT SILMO WILL return to business, ensure its mission optical and eyewear future”.
BE HELD FROM 4 TO to promote its products and services, As the world looks ahead with
7, SEPTEMBER 2021 and uphold its pledge to the optical optimism, Silmo 2021 is scheduled
AT PARIS NORDE and eyewear sector. back at the Paris Nord Villepinte
VILLEPINTE Through a new Silmo Hors les exhibition centre from 24 to 27
Murs (Silmo Outside the Walls), the September 2021.

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