And here is Ligna 2015!

If one exhibition can be considered as an international showcase, that’s Ligna.

Exhibitors know it well. They told us in these weeks, as we asked them to tell their stories and the news you will find on these pages. We noticed a “desire” to be in Hanover. Maybe because there are many markets around the world that offer more opportunities than national marketplaces, and so, the opportunity of such a stage is a “greedy” business occasion.

But definitely also because this exhibition provides a review of innovations, previews and presentations. And although the crisis has struck hard, companies, at least many of them, have not stopped inventing, creating, thinking, designing.

 

It is not going to be a showcase with plenty of novelties: this is an industry that has reached a level of maturity, where most revolutionary inventions were made some time ago. But there are constant enhancements, a strong pursuit of lower consumption and operating costs, higher efficiency, reliability levels that were unimaginable a few years ago, not to mention flexibility, an absolute requirement.

 

So, the doors will be opened up to the so-called “Industry 4.0”, the digital revolution that, quite frankly, seems to us just the final stage of a route (or better, the next stage), reconciling the essential elements of any industrial process. Tools that move in space, driven be powerful and smart heads-arms-spindles, to process materials according to accurate and better organized information. The combination of all these elements is now even more effective and efficient.