Metalworking innovation platform attracts industry insiders and investors from all over the world

The 22nd EMO will be opening its doors from 16 to 21 September 2019 in Hanover. Once again, the world's leading trade fair for metalworking is being held in Germany, the world's third largest machine tool market. “All major manufacturers of production technology will be presenting their products and services in Hanover at the largest and most comprehensive exhibition of industrial production. Nobody can afford to miss it,” says Dr Wilfried Schäfer, Executive Director of the EMO organiser VDW (German Machine Tool Builders’ Association) in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

More than 1.780 exhibitors from 41 countries had applied by the registration deadline of 1 December 2018. The companies include market leaders in all technology areas such as DMG Mori, FFG, Mazak, Siemens, Grob, Doosan, Fanuc, Okuma, Makino, Index, GF Machining Solutions, Chiron, Trumpf, SLM, Stratasys, Paul Horn, Iscar, Sandvik, Kuka and many, many more. New companies are joining them every day.

From India there were already 31 companies registered. Among others those are Bharat Fritz Werner, Forbes & Company, Jyoti CNC Automation e.g.

EMO Hannover is indeed the only truly international platform for metalworking. In contrast to all other trade fairs which describe themselves as international on the basis of their exhibitors, EMO Hannover also attracts trade visitors from all over the world. In 2017, just under half of the roughly 130,000 visitors travelled to Hanover from outside Germany, with around 160 countries represented. The proportion rose to 64 per cent for the exhibitors.

“EMO Hannover is the undisputed innovation platform for metalworking machines, solutions and services,” emphasises Dr Schäfer. In 2017, 72 per cent of the exhibitors said they brought innovations to Hanover that they had developed especially for EMO. This wouldn't happen at any other fair, according to Schäfer.