WELDING & CUTTING: Number one meeting place for the industry

2023-09-08 12:49:07

food (ots) – It’s finally that time again: from September 11th to 15th, the joining, cutting and coating industry will meet at SCHWEISSEN & SCHNEIDEN 2023 at Messe Essen. Over 800 companies from 40 countries present their innovative products and services. These include market leaders such as Lincoln, ESAB, MicroStep, ABICOR BINZEL, EWM, Fronius, Messer Cutting and voestalpine, but also numerous hidden champions, start-ups, research institutions and associations. Oliver P. Kuhrt, Managing Director of Messe Essen: “As usual, the world’s leading trade fair represents the entire international value chain. The response from exhibitors and visitors is overwhelming. We are looking forward to working with our partner DVS – German Association for Welding and Related Procedure eV to offer the industry its high-quality and tailor-made platform for innovations, lead generation, investment decisions and professional exchange.”

An optimized hall layout makes participating in the trade fair particularly easy and effective. Halls 1 to 5 focus on welding, while halls 6 to 8 accommodate exhibitors related to cutting. “This strategic arrangement ensures easy orientation and ensures that trade visitors can find related products such as surface technology, heat treatment, gases, consumables and additional materials, equipment, safety, health, quality assurance, service and digitalization in close proximity to one another,” explains Christina Kleinpaß , project manager at SCHWEISSEN & SCHNEIDEN.

Interactive digitalization rally leads to value-added innovations

Many exhibitors focus on digital innovations. For the first time, trade visitors have the opportunity at SCHWEISSEN & SCHNEIDEN to find out more about digital best practices in the industrial interaction of machines, people, AI and software with a rally aimed at companies. This offer is designed in collaboration with the IndustryFusion Foundation IFF and the German Association for Welding and Related Processes (DVS), which takes participants across the entire exhibition grounds to a wide variety of companies. Guided via the SCHWEISSEN & SCHNEIDEN app, trade visitors can talk directly to the companies and find out more. The app is available for download in the App Store and Play Store. DVS Managing Director Dr.-Ing. Roland Boecking explains: “Digitalization in welding technology enables the functional fusion of manufacturing processes and information technologies as well as innovative digital welder training and further education. Therefore, the rally is an excellent opportunity to create a whole new level of workflows in work and business processes experience.”

Themed areas ensure a concentrated trade fair experience

Information compact and easily accessible – with numerous themed areas and events, SCHWEISSEN & SCHNEIDEN offers valuable input for business. Here are some highlights:

Whether for energy generation or raw material extraction: underwater technology is becoming increasingly important. At the joint stand in exhibition hall 7 (stand 7G13), companies and institutions will present new approaches and innovative products. Demonstrations in a diving container provide exciting insights into this work, which is challenging for people and technology.
The topic of underwater technology is completed by the two-day DVS conference of the same name. On September 12th and 13th, experts will provide information about the latest research and technology – for example, the non-destructive evaluation of the hardness in the heat-affected zone of components welded under water. Another topic block includes practical contributions from underwater technology such as the fatigue and fracture behavior of butt and fillet welds welded underwater.
Companies from each nation present themselves together at international joint stands. This year the trade visitors are exhibitors from China (Halls 4, 6, 7), France (Hall 5), Japan (Hall 8), Korea (Hall 4), Taiwan (Hall 8) and the USA (Hall 1). *give you a unique overview of their new products.
Many new developments in the industry come from newly founded companies. As part of the “Young Innovative Companies” program, supported by the Federal Ministry of Economics, German start-ups will present their pioneering developments in exhibition hall 3 (stand 3A47).

DVS CONGRESS with high-quality technical input

As a partner of SCHWEISSEN & SCHNEIDEN, DVS offers trade visitors numerous opportunities for information and professional exchange with events accompanying the trade fair. The DVS CONGRESS will take place from September 11th to 14th with lectures from operational practice and numerous application-oriented research results from the completed projects of the Welding and Related Processes Research Association. V. took place in the DVS. Digitalization in joining technology, occupational safety and welding technology for the energy transition are just some of the highly topical topics.

At the DVS CAMPUS, students of joining, cutting and coating technology provide information about current results from their theses. Further information at

The German industry’s young talent shows off their skills at the DVS national competition “Youth welds”. The grand finale will take place at SCHWEISSEN & SCHNEIDEN. In the four welding processes gas welding, tungsten inert gas welding, manual arc welding and metal active gas welding, the best welder no older than 23 years old will be honored. Things get international at the International Welding Competition. Youngsters from all over the world compete against each other in individual and team competitions. A maximum of four welders are represented, for example from Switzerland, Bosnia-Herzegovina or Italy.

With the support of the DVS, the wood and metal trade association is presenting the new “Safe Welding” initiative in Hall 8, Stand 8C15. Its mission is to enable the sometimes challenging compliance with air limit values in welding work by imparting knowledge regarding safe welding and measures to reduce welding fumes.

Buy tickets conveniently online

Tickets for SCHWEISSEN & SCHNEIDEN are only available online this year. Tickets can be purchased conveniently in the fair’s ticket shop www.schweissen-schneiden.com be acquired.

Further information at www.schweissen-schneiden.com