Extrusal is one of 19 national companies to join the event as an Exhibitor.
For this year, Hannover Messe has around 1,800 digital exhibitors and the organization believes that around 100,000 visitors will be able to visit the virtual fair.
The 2020 edition of the fair had already been canceled due to the covid-19 pandemic. Last year, the organization still decided to organize a digital event in July that, for two days, held several conferences and 'workshops', with more than 10 thousand registered participants.
Hannover Messe annually receives around 200,000 visitors from nearly a hundred countries over five days, presenting exhibitors of goods, equipment and services from different areas of the manufacturing industry.
As usual, the fair will feature an opening speech by Chancellor Angela Merkel and this year with the participation of Indonesian President Joko Widodo , guest country, as well as Herbert Diess , executive editor of Volkswagen, among others.
Participation will be done through an 'online' platform, available in English or German, which will allow exhibitors to show their products in a digital catalog. At the same time, several lectures accessible to exhibitors and visitors are planned.
Portugal, which will be a guest country in 2022 with the motto “Portugal makes sense ” (Portugal makes sense), this year marks its presence with 19 companies, being among the ten countries with the greatest representation at the fair.
On Tuesday, AICEP and the Luso-German Chamber of Commerce and Industry will organize a digital conference to present Portugal's participation as a partner country in the next edition of Hannover Messe.
The opening of the initiative will be made by Pedro Siza Vieira, Minister of State, Economy and Digital Transition, and closed by Eurico Brilhante Dias, Secretary of State for Internationalization.