Wednesday, August 7, 2024
Around ten months before the commencement of LIGNA 2025, which will welcome visitors from across the globe for its 50th edition from May 26 to 30 in Hanover, over 900 exhibitors have already confirmed their participation. These exhibitors are currently occupying approximately 97,000 square meters of exhibition space.
During the five-day trade fair, exhibitors will showcase new solutions in the context of the focus themes: LIGNA.CONNECTIVITY, LIGNA.SUSTAINABLE PRODUCTION, and LIGNA.ENGINEERED WOOD. They will present advancements in tools, machines, and systems for woodworking and wood processing.
With its extensive international participation, LIGNA 2025 offers an industry facing significant challenges an optimal overview of the options for navigating necessary transformation processes.
“The industry’s strong commitment to LIGNA, the world’s leading trade fair for the sector, which is reflected in the pleasing booking status at this early stage, is also a strong signal of a new beginning,” says Stephanie Wagner, Head of LIGNA at Deutsche Messe AG.
“In a challenging economic situation, our exhibitors are relying on LIGNA as an active starting point for the woodworking community to work
together to emerge from the trough. All key accounts will be in Hanover in 2025. We are also delighted about the numerous first-time registrations, which once again clearly emphasise the international significance of LIGNA 2025 and its importance as a driving force, and which also make it so valuable for the US market,” Wagner continues.
The wide variety of European technology providers represented at LIGNA 2025 play a key role for the USA. The US woodworking and wood processing industry invested a good 350 million euros in German technology partners alone in 2023, around 100 million euros more than companies from China. In addition to Germany, countries such as Canada, China, Taiwan, Italy and Austria, some of which are strongly represented at LIGNA, produce the majority of US imports of woodworking machinery.
LIGNA’s focus topics for the 2025 edition
LIGNA 2025 addresses all industry representatives, from craft businesses to industrial groups, by focussing on three major trends: complete digital networking, the establishment of the circular economy and the development of intelligent products. The corresponding focus topics CONNECTIVITY, SUSTAINABLE PRODUCTION and ENGINEERED WOOD bring together international solution providers for these three central challenges.
The newly conceived focus topic LIGNA.CONNECTIVITY provides answers for all those whose vertical and horizontal integration of their own services encounters established systems with which interfaces need to be created. LIGNA.SUSTAINABLE PRODUCTION, another new focus topic, brings together economically viable approaches for the woodworking trade and industry that protect the environment and resources for future generations and improve working conditions. Finally, LIGNA.ENGINEERED WOOD addresses all aspects of intelligently designed wood products that are made into composite materials for various applications by binding or fixing wood strands, particles, fibres, veneers or panels.
The LIGNA exhibition programm
In Halls 11 to 15 and 27, the presentation of tools, machines and systems for individual and series production will show how the convergence of trade and industry can succeed in the application of technologies. Halls 25 and 26 are reserved for topics like Sawmill Technology, Wood Based Panel Production and “Energy from wood”. On the open-air site and in the pavilions, everything will also revolve around machines and systems for the forestry industry.
Anyone looking for machine components and automation technology such as efficient drive solutions, control technology for CNC machines, energy-saving and efficient transport and handling solutions and high-performance robots will find them in Hall 16, as well as state-of- the-art surface technology, which can also be found in Hall 17.
The LIGNA formats
LIGNA’s 2025 diverse framework programm, which is tailored to the industry, includes the tried-and-tested LIGNA.FutureSquare and LIGNA.Recruiting formats as well as the two new formats LIGNA.Circular and LIGNA.TruckStop, which will celebrate their premiere at the anniversary edition of LIGNA 2025 in Hanover. At the LIGNA.FutureSquare organized by the VDMA Woodworking Machinery Association,
industry suppliers and innovative young companies from the VDMA Startup Machine network will showcase their clever new developments.
LIGNA 2025 will become a matchmaker thanks to the LIGNA.Recruiting format, which brings together first-class specialists and strong employers, for example through company pitches. “Thinking in circles” is the motto of the new LIGNA.Circular format. As the first point of contact for a community dedicated to the circular economy in the woodworking and wood processing industry, LIGNA.Circular builds urgently needed bridges between users, service providers, manufacturers and tradespeople. The latter in particular are the protagonists of the new LIGNA.TruckStop format.
Roadshow trucks will bring everything that makes carpenters’ and joiners’ hearts beat faster, such as power tools, fittings and fastening technology, to the south-west area of the outdoor exhibition centre in Hanover.
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