Xylexpo shows a new way

Here comes “Matec-materiali e tecnologie”, a big spring event dedicated to the manufacturing industry that represents a turning point, creating new opportunities, relations and connections between industries that are getting closer and closer each day.

Xylexpo – the biennial international exhibition of technologies for the wood and furniture industries – will play a key role in the new exhibition based on a project shared with Plast – the exhibition of technologies for the industries of plastic materials and rubber – building a bridge towards an increasing demand of solutions and tools focused on multi-materiality. The initiative is even more significant as the Xylexpo halls (hall 14 and hall 18, Porta Ovest) will dedicate ample space to Composites Future, an expo-conference dedicated to technologies and materials for composites, supported by Assocompositi, the Italian association that gathers all the players of this specific industrial domain.

The dates are June 9 to 12, 2026, a timeframe driven by the previous allocation of the FieraMilano-Rho fairgrounds to the organizers of the Milano-Cortina Winter Olympics. The fairgrounds in Milan will host the speed skating races and a few ice hockey games, consequently forcing them to rearrange a portion of the 2026 exhibition calendar.

The three exhibitions have created a new exhibition layout based on segments, technologies and materials that, in the future, might include other segments of the manufacturing industry, showing a shared desire to respond to the changing needs of exhibitors and visitors with an innovative approach.

“The next edition of Xylexpo is a milestone in the journey we started a long ago to create ever stronger, more tangible and “attractive” synergies for an audience looking for more articulated and complex answers”, said Enrico Aureli, president of Xylexpo and Acimall, the association of Italian woodworking technology manufacturers. “The birth of Federazione Confindustria Macchine, the closer connection of associations representing the manufacturers of instrumental goods for the wood, plastic, ceramic and packaging industries, and the identification of a destination shared with the composite materials industry, enable us to look at the future of our exhibitions from a different perspective, pursuing closer integration and collaboration in order to provide visitors and exhibitors with an innovative context, where they can discover technologies created in contiguous industries and that, more and more often, respond to shared needs”.