Traditionally, drive technology and fluid power has been represented at
Hannover Messe, which takes place 31 March to 4 April 2025, by a large number of companies from Germany and abroad, especially in odd-numbered years. This will also be the case in 2025 when manufacturers will present their latest applications and components for intelligent and sustainable production. All this, under the
Motion & Drives umbrella, will be focused in Halls 4, 5 and 6.
Drive technology and fluid power plays a key role in many industries, because nothing can move without these technologies. For the strongly export-orientated industry,
Hannover Messe is considered to be an ideal platform for boosting global business thanks to its highly international composition. Leading players that have already registered include Atos, Bosch Rexroth, Cantoni, Festo, Flender, IMM Hydraulik, SEW-Eurodrive and Schaeffler.
Hubertus von Monschaw, Hannover Messe’s global director trade fair and product management at Deutsche Messe AG, said: “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. The mix of representatives from research, business, start-ups and politics meeting in one place at the same time is unique. This results in unique business potential and access to top-level decision-makers, technology scouts, experts and media representatives from all over the world.”
Hartmut Rauen, deputy managing director of the Machinery and Equipment Manufacturers Association (VDMA), said: “In 2025,
Hannover Messe and its
Motion & Drives community will be the driver of innovation and centre of gravity when it comes to the best new solutions for the engineering world. These companies supply power, torque, positioning, data, and solutions for our real and virtual worlds.”
According to the VDMA, German drive technology companies alone exported goods worth 17.9 billion euros last year. The most important customer countries were China, the USA, France, Italy, Poland, Austria, the Czech Republic and the UK.
Fluid power is also a very export-orientated market segment. In 2023, goods worth 8.4 billion euros were exported, corresponding to an export quota of 60%. The most important customer countries are the USA, China, Italy, France, Austria, the UK and the Netherlands.
In addition to the individual stands, the
Motion & Drives area will offer an exclusive joint stand for VDMA members as well as a forum accompanying the trade fair, the
Motion & Drives Conference Stage, which will be organised by the VDMA Drive Technology and Fluid Power associations. Current industry topics will be discussed there, including digitalisation, interconnectivity, Manufacturing-X, OPC UA, umati as well as energy monitoring and efficiency, carbon footprint, digital product passport and recycling management.
In addition, a special show organised by the European Union-funded Fluid 4.0 research project will demonstrate digital and sustainable solutions in fluid and drive technology. One focus will be on the challenges of system architecture, energy consumption, PCF calculation, and recycling management. With umati, the VDMA has launched an interface initiative to make data more easily accessible. With umati, data — including from drive technology — can be used without additional outlay.
Hannover Messe is ‘the world’s leading trade fair for industry’. Companies from the engineering, electrical and digital industries, as well as the energy sector, come together under the main theme of ‘Industrial Transformation’ to present solutions for production and energy supply, today and tomorrow. The main exhibiting areas for 2025 will be Smart Manufacturing, Digital Ecosystems, Energy for Industry, Compressed Air & Vacuum Technology, Engineered Parts & Solutions, Future Hub and International Trade & Investment. A conference programme with around 1,600 speakers will also take place.