After six years, EMO, the worldwide exhibition of machine tools returns to Italy. Promoted by CECIMO, the European Association for Machine Tool Industries, the tradeshow will take place from the 5th to the 10th of October 2015 in the prestigious fieramilano exhibition centre.
The biennial leading machine tool event, whose trademark is owned by CECIMO, has chosen Milan as one of its locations alternating with Hanover. This reflects both the foresight of the organisation, relying on a long-standing experience in the organisation of events and the status of the city in showcasing the expertise of the Italian industry, which ranks fourth worldwide for production and third for export.
More than 110,000 square metres of net exhibition space was already booked six months before the opening of EMO MILANO 2015 and the previous 95,000 sq m of exhibition occupied by the 2009 show has been exceeded. Should the current trend be confirmed it is predicted that the exhibition will occupy 120,000 sq m. More than 1,300 companies are already registered to exhibit at EMO MILANO 2015, with, of course, Italian companies to the fore, closely followed by the Germans, the Taiwanese, Chinese and Swiss.
The halls of the exhibition centre of fieramilano Rho-Pero will host the biggest factory showroom in the world, where machine tools, robots, automation, additive manufacturing, mechatronic 
solutions and auxiliary technologies will be exhibited, expressing the importance of the sector’s international production that accounts for 64 billion euros.
“EMO has always been considered the most important event at the disposal of trade operators from the world’s manufacturing industry to keep up-to-date on the new production technologies,” states Pier Luigi Streparava, appointed by CECIMO as Commissioner General EMO MILANO 2015. “It’s exactly for this reason that we decided to include additive manufacturing into the technological index of products of the sector’s leading international exhibition. This is one of the technologies that will be increasingly developed in future and to which the tradeshow will dedicate a special in-depth focus”.
150,000 visitors from approximately 100 countries: these are the figures expected for EMO MILANO 2015 and which will also take advantage of the show running concurrently with EXPO 2015. On this occasion, Milan will show a completely renovated look and an improved traffic flow, thanks to a revised and strengthened public transport service.
Directly connected with the exhibition centre of fieramilano Rho-Pero, Expo 2015 will offer visitors to EMO MILANO 2015 a unique programme of complementary events, creating really interesting synergies for the hundreds of thousands of visitors who will be coming to Milan from every corner of the globe.
Pier Luigi Streparava continues: “As organisers of this exhibition, we are committed to transforming the concurrence of the two tradeshows into real opportunities for our operators, by planning ‘connection activities’ and by activating numerous special services. An example is the Hospitality programme which accurately lists a large range of accommodation options reserved for trade visitors attending EMO MILANO 2015”.
“In the first quarter of 2015,” declares Alfredo Mariotti, director of EMO MILANO, the index, produced by the Studies Department of UCIMU-SISTEMI PER PRODURRE regarding the quantity of machine tool orders received by Italian manufacturers, registered an increase of 2.2 percent compared to the same period in 2014, making it 6 positive quarters in a row.
The increase in the internal market (+15.4 percent), has been instrumental to this positive trend. This information confirms a new period of development and increase for the use of machine tools in Italy. This will be enhanced with stronger and stronger increases: +5.3 percent in 2015, +5 percent in 2016, +7.4 percent in 2017 (Oxford of Economics figures), to the benefit of EMO MILANO 2015”.
“This data, together with the positive forecast on the global use of machine tools, that will reach 60 billion in 2015, 63 billion in 2016 (+5.2 percent), 66 billion in 2017 (+4.8 percent), are a good indication for a successful exhibition,” he concludes.
Updated information, special services for exhibitors and visitors, the video advertisement and one of the music tracks from the EMOTION 2015 collection, the CD made to promote the event, are available on the website below.
EMO Milano 2015
Tel: 0039 0226 255 860/861
Email: info@emo-milano.com
www.emo-milano.com