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Impressions from the EMPA 2022 sponsor hall in Antwerp

published on 29 April 2022 - 96 -

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Video courtesy Kris de Decker

The 56th EMPA General Meeting (27/04/2022 - 29/04/2022) was accompanied by an exhibition in which these companies participated:

- Abeking & Rasmussen
- AD Navigation
- Navicom Dynamics
- QPS
- Saab
- SeaSafe Systems
- Naval Research and Training Centre
- Trelleborg
- TRENZ

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