Hannover Messe 2023 starts – Chancellor Scholz is on the move | NDR.de – News – Lower Saxony

Status: 04/17/2023 11:10 a.m

In the morning, Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) and the President of partner country Indonesia, Joko Widodo, visited some of the approximately 4,000 exhibitors at the exhibition center.

The central theme of this year’s Hanover Fair: climate-friendly production. Before today’s start of the industrial show for visitors, Scholz and his colleague officially opened the fair on Sunday evening. After three years with corona restrictions, Scholz hopes that the exhibition will provide decisive impulses for a competitive industry and the conversion towards CO2 neutrality. “I am very happy that the Hanover Fair is starting again,” he said on Sunday at the start of the world’s largest exhibition for mechanical and electrical engineering. The Chancellor is aiming for a raw materials partnership with Indonesia in order to reduce dependence on China. Scholz campaigned for an EU free trade agreement with Indonesia. “I’m committed to finally getting this agreement across the finish line,” said the SPD politician, emphasizing that this would create a market of 700 million people.


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Scholz: “Industrial awakening that we are planning in Germany”

The current edition of the fair deals with many central topics “that have something to do with the industrial awakening that we are planning in Germany,” said Scholz – and with “the upswing that is possible if we push all the investments forward , which are necessary for us to remain a leading industrial nation”. Scholz emphasized that it is important that “we are there when it comes to doing business in a CO2-neutral manner, and at the same time making it possible for good jobs to be possible here in the country. All of this is connected to this trade fair.”

Automation and machine learning in focus

This year, manufacturers are presenting technologies at the Hanover exhibition center that should lead to CO2-neutral production and resource-saving circular economy in the medium term. Specifically, it is about energy management and the development of a hydrogen economy. The trade fair also focuses on automation and machine learning, as well as artificial intelligence and networked manufacturing processes. “The path to climate-neutral production leads via Hanover,” said trade fair boss Jochen Köckler on Wednesday at the exhibition center. Industry has a key role to play when it comes to reducing emissions of climate-damaging greenhouse gases and developing products that consume little energy.

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“We currently have four major challenges: climate change, energy shortages, disrupted supply chains and a shortage of skilled workers,” said Köckler when the program was presented in February. “Solutions for this will be of a technical nature. And the solutions come together at the Hanover Fair.” Around 4,000 exhibitors will present themselves at the Hanover exhibition center until Friday. These include Siemens, SAP and Festo. A number of medium-sized companies have also registered, says Köckler. In addition, more than 300 startups are coming to Hanover. They present products and solutions in the field of “blockchain and machine learning, digital twins and IT/OT integration to e-mobility and green hydrogen,” according to the organizer.

More participants than expected last year

With regard to the number of visitors, Köckler was optimistic that the previous year’s figure of around 75,000 participants, which was still influenced by Corona, would be significantly exceeded. The level before the pandemic, when more than 200,000 people came, will probably not be reached again.

Hanover Fair: Opening times and tickets

The exhibition center is open to visitors daily from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. until Friday. Day tickets cost in Online presale 34 euros, at the box office 51 euros. The long-term ticket costs 87 euros in online advance sales and 104 euros at the box office. The discounted day ticket (including for pupils, students, trainees and people with disabilities) costs 22 euros.

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