HANNOVER MESSE is booming: From 1 to 5 April, an anticipated 6,500 companies from 75 nations will be exhibiting at the world's leading trade fair for industrial technology. Global corporations, small and medium-sized enterprises and startups alike will all be showcasing their components and system solutions for tomorrow's industrial production and energy systems. All of the leading providers of automation, robotics, industrial software, drive systems and fluid power technology, energy technologies, subcontracting and research and development will be represented at the show.

"HANNOVER MESSE is the world's only platform to highlight the way mechanical and electrical engineering components and systems mesh with the digital technologies offered by software and IT companies," declares Dr. Jochen Köckler, Chairman of the Deutsche Messe Managing Board. "It is the only place where visitors from the production and energy industries can get a panorama view of the future of industry."