After almost two years, there is finally some good news from the German trade fair sector regarding metalworking. METAV 2022 is set to open its doors from 8 to 11 March in Düsseldorf. The registration forms were sent out last week. METAV 2022 is set to open its doors from 8 to 11 March in Düsseldorf. The registration forms were sent out last week. "For the first time since EMO Hannover 2019, METAV 2022 will once again give the sector the opportunity for face-to-face customer contact and (…)

In the last few days the VDW (German Machine Tool Builders’ Association) has sent out registration forms to potential GrindingHub exhibitors all over the world. VDW Executive Manager Dr. Wilfried Schäfer Bild: Uwe Nölke / team-uwe-noelke.de "We first presented our trade fair concept just four weeks ago, and since then we have succeeded in creating the registration forms for the new GrindingHub and distributing them within record time," reports VDW Executive Manager Dr. Wilfried Schäfer. (…)

Lack of prospects forcing the industry and the organiser to cancel the event in 2021 // Virtual Innovation Day will provide access to trade fair highlights. Moulding Expo will not take place in 2021. Since the last Minister-President Conference also did not open up any prospects for the trade fair industry, it is no longer realistic to successfully stage Moulding Expo in June 2021. In addition, the risk for everyone involved is too high. The trade fair advisory board, whose members include (…)

This year will see the 20th edition of the Subcontratación, subcontracting trade show, closely working with small and medium enterprises to build an event aimed to do business. Its support for SMEs has remained strong over the past 40 years, and this year’s event will bring the sector back together over 26-28 October, as part of the +Industry platform. Subcontratación has made a mark down through the years as Spain’s only trade show featuring manufacturing processes and equipment for SME (…)

The corona pandemic has accelerated the digitalization of industry. At the same time, it has exposed the vulnerability of global supply chains. In the midst of unprecedented upheaval, industry faces a crucial question: Which strategies, measures and partnerships ensure competitiveness? HANNOVER MESSE Digital Edition – the central platform for innovation, networking and orientation in the age of industrial transformation – provides the answers. "Industrial companies have to carry out in a (…)

Although in May 2020 participants and organizers agreed it would seem wise to postpone the September 2020 Micronora trade fair by one year, the economic conditions and the global health situation remain worrying and uncertain over 2021. The organizers carried out a survey in January 2021 to get exhibitors’ opinions on the current situation and their expectations for Micronora. More than half of them replied and the team thank them very much. After analyzing the answers, the board (…)

The medtech industry is looking for an in-person trade fair in the first half of the year // Greater planning certainty due to better feasibility after Whitsun. Messe Stuttgart is rescheduling T4M – Technology for Medical Devices to 8 – 10 June 2021. By postponing the trade fair well in advance and setting the new date after the Whitsun holiday, the organiser is hoping to make the Medical Technology Expo more likely to go ahead, and thus ensure greater planning certainty for exhibitors and (…)

On 1 December 2020, Leipziger Messe took over PaintExpo from FairFair GmbH. Since the trade fair was first established in 2006, PaintExpo has taken place every two years in April at Messe Karlsruhe. PaintExpo has become the world’s leading trade fair for industrial coating technologies with 537 exhibitors from 29 countries and 11,790 expert visitors from 88 countries attending the last event. The next PaintExpo will take place from 26 to 29 April 2022 in Karlsruhe. "PaintExpo is a (…)

"If anything good has come out of this difficult time, it is the stimulation of creativity," stated Dr Wilfried Schäfer, Executive Director of the VDW, (German Machine Tool Builders’ Association) at the METAV 2020 reloaded Preview on 10 December 2020. The press conference was originally intended to pave the way for the METAV 2020 reloaded fair next March. But the trade fair has now been completely reinvented as "METAV digital". It will be held from 23 to 26 March 2021. Dr Wilfried Schäfer (…)

Moulding Expo 2021 will offer a new highlight: The Road of Tooling Innovation. Without barriers and stand limits, tool makers, together with manufacturers of injection moulding machines, peripheral equipment and materials, will showcase state-of-the-art production concepts in action in the middle of the trade fair hall. Florian Niethammer, Project Manager for Moulding Expo at Landesmesse Stuttgart: "The Road of Tooling Innovation will be the eyecatcher in the trade fair hall for which we (…)