27.11.2008 - Defying current problems, grasping opportunities and intensifying the cultivation of the market – these could all have served appropriately as mottoes for the latest VDW symposium in Istanbul. On 17 and 18 November 2008, the Who’s Who of the German machine tool construction industry presented “Machine tools and manufacturing systems made in Germany” specially for the Turkish automotive industry and its suppliers, and for the aerospace and machine construction industries.