XYLEXPO is live now

Finally Xylexpo is here. After four years of prolonged silence the show is back and now open to guests and visitors for the woodworking industry. The onsite show has brought back the enthusiasm of the industry to be celebrated for four days full of events, seminars, insights, presentations, technology trails and much more. The 27th edition of Xylexpo 2022 is now open from October 12 – 15, 2022 at FieraMilano.

BI-MU, XYLEXPO and VISCOM ITALIA has come together to create new business opportunities. 33.BI-MU international biennial exhibition of machine tools, robotics and automation systems, additive manufacturing, digital and auxiliary technologies, Xylexpo, the biennial exhibition of woodworking technology and components for the furniture industry along with Viscom Italia, Europe’s leading visual communication trade fair, all kicked off concurrently on the second week of October 2022 at Rho-fieramilano expo centre.

Halls 22 and 24 of the Milan fairgrounds, covering more than 36 thousand square meters, will host 280 exhibitors, one third from abroad, presenting a comprehensive review of the most advanced technology, from primary operation to surface finishing.

The exhibition is back after a long period of doubts and uncertainty, although it is now clear that exhibitions, offering the opportunity to meet in person, is by far the favorite option.

“This year, we preferred to avoid dispersion, doing our best to place all exhibitors in two halls, avoiding “appendixes” that are less appealing to visitors”, said Dario Corbetta, exhibition manager. “We considered that this Xylexpo would be different from the past, for the reasons we all know, and we made decisions to support the quality of the event rather than the sales of exhibition area. As a result, we have a long waiting list of companies that – having delayed their decision to participate for too long – will not be able to join us.”

Several interesting elements add to the business focus of the event, starting from “Xylexpo Digital”, probably the most tangible sign of the desire to offer new modes to experience the trade fair. In the first three days – Wednesday 12 and Thursday 13 October from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Friday 14 October from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. – operators will have the opportunity to meet among the stands, walk along the aisles of FieraMilano-Rho, attend several events in the “Xylexpo Arena”.

On Friday 14 at 5 p.m., the winners of the 2022 edition of XIA-Xylexpo Innovation Award will be announced by an independent jury that – besides the most significant solutions in the finishing, solid wood and panel processing segments – this year will also rewards solutions related to the big topics of sustainability and digital transformation.

And finally, this year will also see the launch of the “Xylexpo Education” initiative, originally planned for the 2020 edition and postponed so far: Acimall has surveyed all the schools, institutes, universities and entities that offer different types and levels of education in the wood-machinery-furniture value chain, to create an initiative with a large scope aimed at developing contacts and relationships all actors. The first step will be Xylexpo 2022, where some thirty organizations have been invited: more than one thousand students across all school grades will find information and education opportunities about the tools and resources that will be the core of their professional experience.

Besides a wider array of innovations on display and an extended line-up of potential business partners, visitors of the two co-located fairs will have access to a rich agenda of additional events. Presentations, seminars and conferences at the Xylexpo arena also offer in-depth insight on relevant topics and Industry 4.0 solutions for more sustainable and efficient production and processing methods.

The pandemic years have revealed the potential of new interaction and communication systems, which have not replaced exhibitions altogether, but have certainly reopened the discussion on concepts, spaces, investments. Both exhibitors and visitors demand events that can be visited within a shorter time frame, with a clear and direct offer: in other words, smaller exhibitions, where you don’t need to showcase the entire range of a solution, but rather prove that you can be a partner for an audience that has many more tools and opportunities to find information, to acquire knowledge and to arrive at the exhibition with clear goals in mind. Xylexpo 2022 will try to make this change, presenting a business opportunity in a market like Italy, that remains one of the most important worldwide, both for the supply and the demand of solutions for the wood and furniture industry. An international exhibition, a date that shows the best of leading-edge technology and – this should be stressed – is organized by a player whose core business is not selling exhibition space, but rather an industry association, Acimall, the association of Italian manufacturers, whose mission is the promotion of wood and furniture technology.

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