Hannover Messe 2024: Successful conclusion

"Hannover Messe 2024 was both an industrial powerhouse and a technological trade fair for the future," said Dr. Jochen Köckler, CEO of Deutsche Messe AG, at the closing press conference of Hannover Messe 2024. "An industrial powerhouse, because visitors found answers to the question of how they can profitably use automation, AI, hydrogen and many other high-tech solutions in their factories and thus make them fit for the future. "This is the technological trade fair of the future because it showcased the innovations that make a competitive and sustainable industry possible." The more than 130,000 visitors from 150 countries exchanged ideas with the 4,000 exhibiting companies on how they can digitalize their value chains and make them more resilient. "We therefore achieved our ambitious visitor target in a year when the Hannover Messe was smaller due to the rotation of events," said Köckler. More than 40 percent of visitors came from abroad. The top visitor countries after Germany were China, the Netherlands, the USA, Korea and Japan. Dr. Gunther Kegel, President of the ZVEI and Chairman of the Exhibitors' Advisory Board of the Hannover Messe, said: "In the current difficult economic environment, this year's Hannover Messe is an important mood booster. Companies from the electrical and digital industry have impressively demonstrated how innovations, in particular the use of artificial intelligence, open up new options for action." Thilo Brodtmann, Managing Director of the VDMA, added: "Thinking far beyond the day-to-day and developing solutions for digital and climate-neutral production - that is the claim of the innovative mechanical and plant engineering companies. At this year's Hannover Messe, they showed how factories can be controlled more intelligently, how climate protection can be achieved more quickly with modern means of production and how autonomous systems can make production safer and more efficient on many levels."

From solutions such as the automation of entire production plants, the voice control of machines using AI, the efficient use of hydrogen in industry to the use of software to record and reduce the carbon footprint, Hannover Messe offered a comprehensive picture of the technological possibilities for the industry of today and tomorrow. New fields such as the biologization of the economy or carbon management were also brought into focus. This year's Hannover Messe was also the platform for start-ups looking to enter the industry with their solutions. More than 300 young companies used the trade fair to network with industry. This year, Hannover Messe was a mainstay of the economic policy agenda setting as rarely before. "Hannover Messe made technological progress tangible for politicians," said Köckler. "The potential of the technologies on show here is enormous. However, it can only unfold if the political framework conditions are right." Competitive energy costs, the expansion of digital infrastructure, fast approval procedures, a reduction in unnecessary bureaucracy and the influx of qualified workers were at the top of the agenda for the more than 300 economic policy delegations who visited the trade fair. Hannover Messe 2025 will take place from March 31 to April 4.