Manufacturing Technologies & Components

Intelligent optimisation of processes and procedures and the increasing demands of efficiency, complexity and flexibility are major themes for the capital goods industry. Messe Frankfurt provides focused B-to-B platforms for each of these fields in growth regions worldwide.
Formnext is the leading trade fair for additive manufacturing/3D printing and the next generation of intelligent industrial manufacturing processes. Similar natured fairs in Asian region include Asiamold in Guangzhou and the newly launched Formnext South China in Shenzhen.

Messe Frankfurt also organises international trade fairs for tools, ironmongery and other tradesmen’s requisites in Argentina (Expoferretera) and in the United Arab Emirates (Hardware+Tools Middle East). Wire & Cable in Guangzhou is the second largest trade fair for the wire and cable industry in China. Thermotec (trade fair for industrial ovens, thermic processes and metallurgy) and Thermal Technology (the exhibition on industrial furnace, equipment and material) present the sector’s innovations in Japan.  Decision-makers in the wood-pulp, paper and supplying industries meet every year for their trade fair and congress at the Zellcheming-Expo.