First-ever Lightweighting Summit at HANNOVER MESSE
by Shrutee K/DNS
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2019, the German Economics Ministry is organizing HANNOVER MESSE’s first-ever
summit on lightweight construction. The summit for political, industry and
R&D leaders, which will be held on 2 April, will look at lightweight design
and construction as a competitive factor and explore strategies for fostering
it as a key enabling technology. Germany’s Federal Minister for Economic
Affairs, Peter Altmaier, will open the summit and give the opening address.
Hannover.
Lightweight construction has been a key focus of
HANNOVER MESSE for many years. The difference in 2019 is that it will be on
center stage at the all-new Lightweighting Summit. Organized by the German
government, the summit frames lightweight construction as a key part of
Germany’s industrial policy agenda. “Lightweight means material and resource
efficiency,” commented Germany’s Federal Minister for Economic Affairs, Peter
Altmaier. “We want to promote lightweight construction as a key enabling
technology and thus smooth the way for even broader industrial use of
lightweight technologies. Our objective with the Lightweighting Summit at
HANNOVER MESSE is to facilitate this by advancing the necessary dialogue
between government, industry and research.”
The inaugural Lightweighting Summit is
expected to attract about 300 participants. Comprising keynotes by top-notch
speakers and two panel discussions, it will open at 2 p.m. on Tuesday, 2 April
2019, and close three hours later, at 5 p.m. Deutsche Messe sees the summit as
a major plus for HANNOVER MESSE. “Interest in lightweight design and
construction is strong across all areas of HANNOVER MESSE,” explained the
company’s Managing Board Chairman, Dr. Jochen Köckler. “At the moment, many
industries and manufacturers are only just figuring out how they can benefit
from lightweight construction. As well as using a diverse range of materials,
lightweighting is also very much about innovative engineering and digitized
development chains.”
German industry has already made a name for
itself with its know-how in lightweight construction, and part of the thematic
focus of the 1st Lightweighting Summit will be on how to strengthen
and build on that position. The use and combination of various different
materials, such as plastics, fiber-reinforced composites, aluminum, wood, and
even steel and concrete, are fundamental to lightweight construction, but they
are by no means the whole story. Lightweight design and engineering are just as
important. The Summit will focus on both of these aspects as being essential to
achieving enhanced material and resource efficiency and improved functionality.
Lightweighting is also playing a pivotal role in the introduction of digital
value chains and thus has considerable cross-over with the other core theme of
HANNOVER MESSE – Industry 4.0.
HANNOVER
MESSE – Get new technology first!
HANNOVER MESSE is the world’s leading trade
fair for industrial technology. With its core focus on “Integrated Industry –
Industrial Intelligence”, it covers the full range of digitization solutions
for tomorrow’s manufacturing and energy systems. HANNOVER MESSE will next be held in 2019,
when it will feature six parallel shows – IAMD (Integrated Automation, Motion &
Drives), Digital Factory, Energy, Industrial Supply, ComVac and Research &
Technology – as well as special showcases for startups and career starters,
plus over 90 conferences and forums. HANNOVER MESSE 2019 will run from 1 to 5
April 2019 in Hannover, Germany, and will put the spotlight on Sweden as its
official Partner Country.
Deutsche Messe AG
As one of the world’s
foremost organizers of capital goods trade fairs, Deutsche Messe (Hannover,
Germany) stages a rich array of events at venues in Germany and around the
globe. With 2017 revenue of 356 million euros, Deutsche Messe ranks among
Germany’s top five tradeshow producers. The company’s portfolio features such
world-class events as (in alphabetical order) CEBIT (digital business), CeMAT
(intralogistics and supply chain management), didacta (education), DOMOTEX
(carpets and other floor coverings), HANNOVER MESSE (industrial
technology), INTERSCHUTZ (fire and rescue services, civil protection,
safety and security), LABVOLUTION (lab technology) and LIGNA
(woodworking, wood processing, forestry). The company also regularly hosts a
number of internationally renowned events by third parties, among which are AGRITECHNICA
(agricultural machinery) and EuroTier (animal production), both of which
are staged by the German Agricultural Society (DLG), EMO (machine tools;
staged by the German Machine Tool Builders’ Association, VDW), EuroBLECH
(sheet metal working; staged by MackBrooks) and IAA Commercial Vehicles
(transport, logistics and mobility; staged by the German Association of the
Automotive Industry, VDA). With more than1,200 employees and a network of 58
sales partners, Deutsche Messe is present in more than100 countries.
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