The world’s leading trade fair for industry will open its doors on March 31, 2025. With more than 4,000 exhibitors from all over the world, Hannover Messe is the central platform for future-oriented solutions in industrial production. Drive technology and fluid power will play a special role this year. Under the label of “Motion & Drives,” the industry segments will once again showcase their strength and importance as the largest supplier branches in the international engineering business. Not only innovative and smart individual components but also complete systems will be presented.
“Given the general global conditions, Hannover Messe has a special role to play this year, because this is where the global course for tomorrow’s industrial production will be set,” said Dr. Jochen Köckler, Chairman and CEO of Deutsche Messe AG. “In the areas of automation, digitalization and international cooperation, we offer a central platform on which drive technology and fluid power companies can showcase their pioneering concepts and provide decisive impetus for a resilient industry. At the same time, the highly international nature of the event opens up ideal opportunities for export-oriented companies to tap into new markets, acquire potential new customers, and strengthen their position in global competition in the long term.”
Companies that have already registered their participation include Atos, Baumüller, Bosch Rexroth, Cantoni, Festo, Flender, HAWE, IMM Hydraulik, SEW-EURODRIVE, and Schaeffler. The manufacturers will present their latest applications and components for intelligent and sustainable production. All this, under the Motion & Drives label, will be focused in Halls 4, 5, and 6.
“With Hannover Messe, we are offering exhibitors the opportunity to be embedded in a unique industrial innovation ecosystem. It is one in which companies from the engineering, electrical and digital industries as well as the energy sector present efficient and sustainable solutions for current and future industrial value creation. This mix of research, business, start-ups and politics is a guarantee for a consistently high level of dynamic performance every year,” said Köckler.
“Power Transmission Engineering and Fluid Power components are key building blocks of machines – they provide power and movement, serve as a data source for digital value-added services, and play a decisive role in the performance of customer products. In 2025, Hannover Messe with its ‘Motion & Drives Community’ will become a driver of innovation in the engineering business,” said Hartmut Rauen, Deputy Managing Director of the Machinery and Equipment Manufacturers Association (VDMA) and responsible for the Power Transmission Engineering and Fluid Power Associations within VDMA.
The German Power Transmission Engineering and Fluid Power sectors expect to close 2024 with a nominal decline in sales of around eight percent. Incoming orders are also running at this level, and there is a lack of urgently needed impetus to stimulate the market. Accordingly, the two industry sectors, which together account for a sales volume of around 30 billion euros, continue to face a difficult economic situation.
This picture is representative of the entire engineering business. The industry is under sustained cost and competitive pressure, and is reluctant to invest due to global uncertainties and challenging political conditions in Germany, the EU, and the rest of the world. Growth in the Chinese export market, which plays an important role for Power Transmission Engineering and Fluid Power, is also showing no signs of momentum.
Forecast for 2025
Neither sector expects any significant recovery in 2025, indeed they are anticipating a decline — albeit a more moderate one. It is therefore even more important that Hannover Messe 2025 should serve as a platform to demonstrate the performance and innovative power of drive technology and fluid power to the world. The role of politics should not be neglected either
“There is a need to cut red tape and strengthen entrepreneurship. We need better framework conditions as well as free trade agreements and impetus in the innovation field. The research tax allowance is a good approach, and we are also focusing on expanding joint industrial research,” said Hartmut Rauen.
The members of the Power Transmission Engineering and Fluid Power associations are increasingly involved with the problems of securing young talent and the shortage of skilled workers. Through close cooperation with research institutions such as the Research Association for Drive Technology (FVA e.V.), the Fluid Power Research Fund and the Fluid Power Education Fund, pioneering research projects are being driven forward, and urgently needed graduates are being trained.
Digitalization will continue to be a key topic at Hannover Messe. The publicly funded research project “Fluid 4.0,” which focuses primarily on the Asset Administration Shell (AAS) concept, is opening up new perspectives for the industry. OPC UA specifications are being developed in the area of Power Transmission Engineering to optimize data exchange in Power Transmission Engineering. Interfaces to the overarching topic of Manufacturing-X will also be addressed in order to design future data spaces for the industry, and to gear up the sector for the future.
The special show in Hall 5, D44 at the heart of the “Motion & Drives” exhibition focus will prove to be the central meeting point for casting light on the future of fluid power and exchanging ideas and insights with experts. Exhibits and research activities on system control, energy monitoring, recycling management, carbon footprints, and IoT integration will be presented. The exhibition will show what the path to even more efficient and productive fluid power looks like, and what added value digitalization brings for manufacturers and customers alike.
The Conference Stage in Hall 5, D32 will be the center for transferring expertise and networking in the fields of Power Transmission Engineering and Fluid Power. In the immediate vicinity of the special FLUID POWER 4.0 show, sessions will be offered throughout the week dealing with specific topics on the latest developments in smart Fluid Power and Power Transmission Engineering. The program will be supplemented with topics focusing on Europe, India and Italy.
The joint stand for VDMA members and the information stands of the Power Transmission Engineering and Fluid Power associations together with their European sector committees CETOP and EUROTRANS, will be located in the immediate vicinity in areas E36 to E44. Seven member companies from the Power Transmission Engineering and Fluid Power sector and the Fluid 4.0 project will be exhibiting innovative products, innovations and solutions at the joint company stand.
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