Top grades for Hanover Fair
Once again HANNOVER MESSE (the Hanover Fair) more than lived up to its reputation as the world’s leading technology event. There was an upbeat mood in every exhibition hall, accompanied by a tangible willingness to invest. With record statistics and a large quantity of the latest products and processes, HANNOVER MESSE exceeded all exhibitor and visitor expectations, underscoring its status as an innovations platform for the global marketplace.
The total attendance figures of over 230,000 visitors - up more than 10 percent on the last directly comparable year, 2005 - was an outstanding result for HANNOVER MESSE. Attendance from Germany was up 12 percent, with the volume of visitors from outside Germany up eight percent. Visitors from abroad represented around 30 percent of total attendance.
For 42 percent of visitors, the main motivation for coming to the show was the desire to catch up on the latest developments - again confirming HANNOVER MESSE's unique position as the world's leading platform for innovative technologies. A total of approximately 5.5 million business contacts were made over the five days of the show. Visitors rated the comprehensive and international market coverage as well as the presence of market leaders as being the main strengths of HANNOVER MESSE.
The new products which HAC presented at the Hanover Fair included, for example, the high voltage and vibration-resistant Fast/Gigabit-Ethernet-Switch MACH 1000 which is particularly suitable for use in electricity transformer stations or in traffic automation. Other highlights were the first fiber optic repeater in plug format ( OZD ProfiPlug ) and two new antennae for the BAT54-Rail WLAN system with which both mobile devices and switch cabinets can be equipped which are to communicate with each other via WLAN in a production environment.
