HANNOVER MESSE , the annual international trade fair for industrial products held annually in Hannover, Germany, is responding to changing market requirements with a new Industrial Services exhibition area. German industry is facing ever new challenges in the face of rising energy prices, a shortage of young talent, and increasing bureaucratic hurdles. Companies are outsourcing services so that they can devote their full attention to their own core activities and issues.
This is where the new Industrial Services exhibition area comes into play, offering companies from the spheres of maintenance, assembly, recycling, cleaning and industrial logistics the opportunity to showcase their service offerings and products in the attractive setting of Hall 11, at the interface between automation and energy topics. This joint stand will be supported by, among others, VAIS (Association for Plant Engineering and Industrial Services). " Hannover Messe is the leading international trade fair and showcase for the industry. We are pleased that, with the new exhibition area, the importance and role of industrial services as enabler for the industrial transformation in Germany will become more visible.
The show offers our members the opportunity to present their solutions to an audience of customers and experts and, in return, to familiarize themselves with the latest technological developments," said Dr. Dietmar Kestner, managing director of VAIS. The joint stand is likewise interesting for logistics service providers. They are the supply chain's enablers, alleviating the burden on industry with solutions tailored to specific and varied requirements. Hannover Messe is an annual event at which companies from the mechanical engineering, electrical, digital and energy sectors come together to present solutions in the interests of establishing an industrial environment that is both high-performance and sustainable in equal measure.
As a networked industrial ecosystem, they demonstrate how climate neutrality can be achieved by adopting electrification, digitization, and automation and applying sustainable technologies and solutions along with the incorporation of robotics and artificial intelligence (AI). The theme for the next event—hosted in Hannover, Germany from 22 to 26 April 2024—is "Industrial Transformation." It will bring together companies from the mechanical engineering, electrical, digital and energy sectors to present solutions for the production and energy supply of the future. The key topics include Industry 4.0/Manufacturing-X, energy for industry, digitalization/artificial intelligence and mechanical learning, CO2-neutral production, and hydrogen and fuel cells.
The exhibition program is complemented by a series of conferences and forums.


