Traditionally, drive technology and fluid power has been represented at Hannover Messe by a large number of companies from Germany and abroad, especially in odd-numbered years. This will also be the case in 2025 when manufacturers will present their latest applications and components for intelligent and sustainable production. All this, under the Motion & Drives label, will be focused in Halls 4, 5 and 6. Drive technology and fluid power plays a key role in many industries, because nothing can move without these technologies. For the strongly export-oriented industry, Hannover Messe is the ideal platform for boosting global business thanks to its highly international character. Companies that have already registered include Atos, Bosch Rexroth, Cantoni, Festo, Flender, IMM Hydraulik, SEW-Eurodrive and Schaeffler.

"With Hannover Messe, we are offering exhibitors the opportunity to be embedded in a unique industrial innovation ecosystem. It is one in which companies from the engineering, electrical and digital industries as well as the energy sector present efficient and sustainable solutions for current and future industrial value creation. The mix of representatives from research, business, start-ups and politics meeting in one place at the same time is unique. This results in unique business potential and access to top-level decision-makers, technology scouts, experts and media representatives from all over the world," says Hubertus von Monschaw, global director trade fair and product management Hannover Messe at Deutsche Messe AG.

"In 2025, Hannover Messe and its Motion & Drives community will be the driver of innovation and center of gravity when it comes to the best new solutions for the engineering world. The Motion & Drives companies supply power, torque, positioning, data, and solutions for our real and virtual worlds," emphasizes Hartmut Rauen, deputy managing director of the Machinery and Equipment Manufacturers Association (VDMA).

According to the VDMA, German drive technology companies alone exported goods worth EUR 17.9 billion last year. The most important customer countries were China, the USA, France, Italy, Poland, Austria, the Czech Republic and the UK.

Fluid power is also a very export-oriented segment: in 2023, goods worth EUR 8.4 billion were exported, corresponding to an export quota of 60 percent. The most important customer countries are the USA, China, Italy, France, Austria, the UK and the Netherlands.

In addition to the individual stands, the Motion & Drives area will offer an exclusive joint stand for VDMA members as well as a forum accompanying the trade fair, the "Motion & Drives Conference Stage", which will be organized by the VDMA Drive Technology and Fluid Power associations. Current industry topics will be discussed there, including digitalization, interconnectivity, Manufacturing-X, OPC UA, umati as well as energy monitoring and efficiency, carbon footprint, digital product passport and recycling management. In addition, a special show organized by the EU-funded Fluid 4.0 research project will demonstrate digital and sustainable solutions in fluid and drive technology. One focus will be on the challenges of system architecture, energy consumption, PCF calculation, and recycling management.

With umati, the VDMA has launched an interface initiative to make data more easily accessible. With umati, data – including from drive technology – can be used without additional outlay.