HANNOVER MESSE

Sustainability and efficiency are increasingly at the center of industrial development around the world. Assessments of companies' performance no longer focus purely on commercial factors, but also take into account their use of energy and raw materials.

Society faces greater challenges today than at any time in the past. Fossil fuels such as oil, gas and coal are limited, and they release harmful greenhouse gases when they are burned. Some three-quarters of all greenhouse gases are generated by industrialized regions and countries like the United States, Europe and Japan. The concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere has almost reached levels that will cause irreversible damage to the climate.

Hannover. Irrespective of the European finance crisis, business relations between China and Germany have been developing exceptionally well.

Hannover. Next year Deutsche Messe will be considerably extending the options for companies to participate in trade shows with a variety of sponsoring opportunities.

By adopting "greentelligence" as its keynote theme, HANNOVER MESSE 2012 has put the spotlight squarely on green technologies as a central growth driver for industry.

Boasting an impressive line-up of eight flagship trade fairs which attract exhibitors and trade visitors from all over the world, HANNOVER MESSE is set to reaffirm its unique global standing once again in 2012.

The recurrent theme throughout HANNOVER MESSE 2012 will be "greentelligence".

Hannover, Germany. Faced with spiraling raw materials costs, fierce competition for scarce resources, high energy costs and the increasing "greening" of demand, small and medium enterprises alike worldwide are re-thinking how they do business.