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 (…)

As one of the first customers, OECHSLER, globally probably the largest volume manufacturers of 3D printed plastic components, has purchased the post processing system S1 from AM Solutions – 3D post processing technology. The automated S1 will assist the company to fulfill the stringent requirements for quality, repeatability of processing results, traceability and cost efficiency that must be met in the automotive industry. OECHSLER corporation, located in Ansbach, Germany, is a global (…)

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 (…)

To remain competitive in the field of the Internet of Things, even medium-sized industrial and process metrology companies need to increasingly integrate their sensor circuits into ASICs (application-specific integrated circuits). The semiconductor industry is currently meeting this need with lower costs for development cycles and decreasing quantity hurdles. This is not occurring often enough in chip packaging, meaning that ASICs requiring individual packages are at risk of being bogged (…)

See you soon in early January

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 (…)

The first to market ANCA Integrated Manufacturing System (AIMS) uses smart automation and IT integration to connect tool production processes and systems. AIMS uses smart automation and IT integration ANCA’s launch of integrated solutions with AIMS, connects sequential processes in tool manufacturing, to bank the benefits of automation and integration. AIMS facilitates streamlined tool production, linking separate processes to each other and factory IT systems. The future of toolmaking (…)

"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 (…)