HANNOVER MESSE
HAS IT ALL Encompassing seven international trade fairs under one roof, HANNOVER MESSE is the world’s leading industrial trade show covering a wider range of themes and exhibits than any other event. Furthermore, the show will highlight this year’s official Partner Country, Poland, and the many ways in which it stands out in terms of both innovation and growth.
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ast year’s HANNOVER MESSE attracted over 190,000 visitors and the 2017 edition of the event is shaping up to be just as successful. With a wide range of themes including R&D, industrial automation and IT, industrial supply, production engineering and services as well as energy and environmental technology, visitors and exhibitors can take advantage of the opportunity to win new sales leads in other sectors and gain unique access to new products and technologies from all over the world. The line-up for HANNOVER MESSE 2017 falls into seven separate events, each a leading event in its own right. They are: Industrial Automation; Motion, Drive & Automation; Digital Factory; Energy; ComVac; Industrial Supply and Research & Technology. 24 Industry Europe
Highlighting the benefits of ‘Industrie 4.0’ One of the key messages at HANNOVER MESSE 2016 was the increasingly mainstream importance of integrated industry and the show therefore featured over 400 application examples of fully digitalised processes for the manufacturing and energy industries. ‘Integrated Industry – Creating Value’ is the official lead theme for HANNOVER MESSE 2017. “Widespread uptake of digitalisation in the manufacturing and energy industries will only happen if integrated technology providers make a strong case for the associated benefits,” said Deutsche Messe managing board member Dr Jochen Köckler. “Manufacturers and energy companies need to fully understand the direct, long-term benefits they stand to gain from
