Hosting around 4,000 exhibitors in April, Hannover Messe will spotlight solutions for resource-efficient, climate-neutral and resilient production. The lead theme of the industrial show is “Industrial Transformation — Making the Difference,” a reference to how companies from the mechanical engineering, electrical and digital industries, and the energy sector are driving change to reduce CO² emissions on a major scale.
“At the upcoming Hannover Messe, we will be able to witness the new products and substantial innovations with which our exhibitors are tackling several different crises. In April, they will be presenting highly specific solutions for greater efficiency to counter climate change and enable CO²-neutral production. Digitization, artificial intelligence and hydrogen play a prominent role here,” said Dr. Jochen Köckler, chairman of the managing board at Deutsche Messe. “Due to their high level of innovation, companies from the drive and fluid technology sectors have traditionally been among the biggest and most sustainable drivers of innovation at Hannover Messe.”
The transformation of drive technology and fluid power is running at full speed. Innovativeness and solutions competence are placing drive and fluid technology at the heart of Industry 4.0. Added to this are the issues of climate protection and resource efficiency. Digitization offers efficient and sustainable solution approaches for customers in both industries.
“Drive and fluid technology components are the central building blocks of machines, for power and motion, but also as a source of data for digital value-added services and crucial to the performance of customer products — this is what we will be showing at Hannover Messe,” said Hartmut Rauen, deputy executive director of VDMA and responsible for power transmission engineering and fluid power at the association.
Numerous VDMA member companies will be highlighting practical examples in the context of digitization and sustainability.
The fluid power and drive technology activities are flanked by several VDMA initiatives, for example one involving the OPC UA interface standard, the “Industrial Digital Twin Association” (IDTA) alliance co-initiated by VDMA, the “Wireless Communications for Machines” working group, and the “Industrial Security” Competence Center, which is also exhibiting at the show. With Manufacturing-X, the federative data room ecosystem for the manufacturing industry, the platform gap is now also closing.
The sustainability activities of the trade associations will be flanked in Hannover by two new guides for member companies on circular economy and climate-neutral production. The aim is to provide members with assistance in analyzing and implementing the relevant issues at their companies. In addition, the VDMA’s “Carbon Busters Award” initiative, a competition in which young employees can submit ideas for reducing CO² consumption, will present and highlight the winning proposals at Hannover Messe.
Companies to exhibit digital and sustainable solutions
Companies from the VDMA Drive Technology and Fluid Power Associations will share examples at the trade fair that will highlight the supplier industry as an important source of data and offers services that make future-efficient and sustainable machines possible.
VDMA Motion, Drive and Automation at Hannover Messe, together with the European associations CETOP and EUROTRANS will exhibit eight companies from the power transmission and fluid power industry with innovative products, innovations and solutions.
The fluid power and drive technology companies exhibiting at Hannover Messe include: Baumüller, Elektra, Eurodrive, Flender, Neugart, Optibelt, RINGSPANN, R+W Antriebstechnik, SIT, Sumitomo, Wittenstein, Alfagomma, Balflex, Bosch Rexroth, Camozzi, Emerson, Festo, Hawe, Held Hydraulik, Hutchinson, MHA Zentgraf, Pneumax, PH Hydraulik Stauffenberg and Uniflex.
