The booth was visited by a number of attendees among the 80 organizations represented.
![HTRI06_02](https://www.colan.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/HTRI06_02-300x225.jpg)
A short presentation was given on August 21, 2006 within the exhibition, together with a demonstration of Xist 5.0 running in PRO/II 8.0. A longer presentation was given within the Technical Sessions on August 22, 2006. It involved showing live the simulation of a train of heat exchangers modelled in Aspen Plus 2004.1 with three Xist 5.0 modules in a recycle loop.
![HTRI06_01](https://www.colan.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/HTRI06_01-300x225.jpg)
This event gave CO-LaN CTO an opportunity to meet and discuss with representatives from CO-LaN members such as Dow Chemical, Honeywell, Invensys Process Systems, HTRI and Virtual Material Group. A number of discussions occurred also with software vendors of mechanical design tools, especially about the opportunity to make these pieces of software CAPE-OPEN compliant.