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Fair to showcase trends and innovations under the motto of “More than machine tools”
Hannover, 13 September 2011. – Immediately before its doors are due to open, it’s all systems go for the EMO Hannover 2011, the world’s premier trade fair for the metalworking sector. At the fair’s inaugural press conference, Dr. Detlev Elsinghorst, General Commissioner of the EMO Hannover 2011, reports: “The number of exhibitors is well-nigh at the same level as in 2007. And that was one of the best events we’ve ever had. So we’re very confident that the EMO Hannover will in 2011 be just as successful as last time.”
From 19 to 24 September 2011 2,037 manufacturers from 41 different countries will be showing their new solutions and services for industrial production operations under the motto of “More than machine tools”. “Intelligent solutions for products and processes are in demand all over the world”, explains Elsinghorst. Even during the crisis, he continued, companies had progressed their research and development efforts, and the results, themed around the issues of productivity and accuracy, sustainability and product-supportive services, will all be on show at the EMO.
The EMO Hannover 2011 will be occupying 176,000 m² of net exhibition area in 16 halls. That’s 290,000 m² of gross area, equivalent to 40 football pitches.
Multifarious accompanying events spotlight trends in international production technology
It’s not only the exhibitors who will be showcasing a multifaceted spectrum of products. “In its complementary programme, the EMO as an event also maps out trends and triggers new development initiatives”, to quote Elsinghorst. “It offers an enhanced level of information for trade visitors.”
The mega-issue of sustainability, for instance, will be exhaustively discussed within the framework of a two-day international congress. Users and manufacturers will be profiling requirements and solutional options from an industrial viewpoint. Representatives of the academic community will be mapping out potentials. The VDW’s Blue Competence Special Show will be rounding off the issue of sustainability. Under this trademark, around 30 firms will be showcasing their solutions for sustainability in industrial production operations, with energy-.efficiency a major focus.
There is an increasing focus on the aviation industry, too, as an important customer grouping with huge potential. The massive expansion of the global aircraft industry and its component suppliers, plus the ever-wider use of titanium and fibre-reinforced plastics, so as to save fuel, are entailing new requirements for the machinery involved. Professor Berend Denkena, from the Institute for Production Technology and Machine Tools in Hanover, is organising a congress for the EMO entitled “New Manufacturing Technologies in the Aerospace Industry”. It will likewise be complemented by a Special Show, spotlighting a complete process chain for manufacturing titanium components.
As the third-biggest export market for the German machine tool industry, and the tenth-largest market worldwide, Russia is coming in for ever-greater attention. An EMO Focus on Russia event entitled “Production equipment vendors lured by raw-material foreign currency” deals with the basic considerations involved for doing successful business in Russia.
In order to remain creative in the future and develop new ideas, the machine tool industry needs optimally qualified recruits. The Special Show for Young People entitled “Mechanical Engineering – a Job with Power”, a traditional feature of the trade fairs organised by the VDW (German Machine Tool Builders’ Association), will over the entire duration of the fair be providing information on the sector as a whole, metalworking job categories, requirements, training contents and career opportunities in the machine tool manufacturing sector. Invitations have gone to approximately 7,000 young people from technical grammar schools and technical specialist and vocational colleges in the northern part of Germany.
Machine tool industry’s business looking reassuringly healthy
The EMO Hannover 2011 is being held in what is currently once again a more turbulent market environment. It will, however, signpost where the capital goods industry is headed. The German machine tool industry and its customer sectors are currently in a healthy condition. The sector is confident of 30-per-cent growth in production output, which will put it back at approximately the pre-crisis level. “For the year’s second half, we’re expecting a further boost in demand from the EMO“, says Detlev Elsinghorst.
