Tanexpo – International Exhibition of Funerary and Cemetery Art

TANEXPO was founded in 1998 and is held in Bologna every two years. Over time it has become the first funeral fair that promotes the made in Italy in the world for the number of visitors and exhibition area size.
Tanexpo is an historical record fair, with a growing trend: this is testified by the more than positive numbers of Tanexpo 2018, which again this year has confirmed itself as the world's leading fair: "18,700 visitors, coming from 55 countries, they recorded a +4% compared to the previous edition (funeral enterprises, cemetery workers, wholesalers of funeral articles and cemetery art, funeral services companies, marble workers, municipal companies and public administrators) and over 250 exhibitors, of which 30% international (+10% compared to 2016), on a total exhibition space of 23,000 square meters. Many news and curiosities proposed by exhibitors: from the urns to the coffins (with interesting experiences in the green field and a growing market for animal urns ), from funeral art to accessories, to insurance services and to technological and IT innovations that make the sector more and more in step with the times of a world obal and social." [Source: Oltre Magazine - Information magazine for funeral and cemetery entrepreneurs].
A great success, in short, the result of an intense work of relationships and teamwork by the organizers, but also, and above all, of the quality products given by the excellence of the exhibitors.
One of the crucial points of the Tanexpo 2018 review was training; for this purpose, an ad hoc session was set up, TanexpoEducation, with the aim of offering, on the one hand, suitable instruments for a greater professionalization of the sector, and on the other hand, developing the right methodologies to increase its competitiveness on the territory.

Present, among the exhibitors, as well as in previous editions, Real Votiva, an italian art foundry with proprietary brand, leader in the production and marketing of products and accessories for funeral art in Italy and abroad (especially in France), Belgium, Luxembourg, Croatia, Greece). In the company exhibition there was a wide range of bronze, porcelain and steel objects including some new production lines for funeral tombstones and new statues for cemeteries and memorial chapels; in particular, among the exhibited products:
- letters and numbers for epigraphs on tombstones and monuments;
- flower vases and pots;
- frames for photographs;
- lamps, for the votive illumination of the tombstones;
- candlesticks, crosses, crucifixes, bronze statues, for furnishing and decorating the cemetery chapels;
- plaques, books, commemorative parchments;
- cremation urns, for the preservation of the ashes of the dead after cremation;
- brackets and studs, to hold and fix marble slabs.