Leading companies from 28 countries will participate in the BIEMH-International Machine-Tool Biennial, between June 13 and 17. The fair has nearly 1,400 exhibiting firms confirmed to date, together with the parallel fairs, and highlights the presence of foreign participants from countries such as Germany, Austria, Belgium, Canada, China, South Korea, USA, Finland, France, India, Italy, Japan, Portugal, United Kingdom, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Taiwan or Turkey, among others.
By sectors, the offer will be divided between companies of machinery by starting (22%), components and accessories (20%), automation and robotics (14%), machinery by deformation (13%), tools (12%), metrology and CAD-CAM (9%), and services and others (10%) mainly. To date, the directory includes more than 3,250 machines, products, services and novelties, which will turn the pavilions of the Bilbao Exhibition Center into an avant-garde showcase with the most advanced technological solutions.
The data confirms favorable prospects for this edition, in which the industry will reinforce its essential role in the economy; BIEMH returns as a top-level strategic meeting for the revitalization of the industrial field. It will be a B2B tool for direct commercial contact, with multiple business opportunities.
In addition, simultaneously with BIEMH, Addit3D-International Fair of Additive Manufacturing and 3D will be held; BeDIGITAL-Digital Transformation Fair applied to the industry; the IMIC-Industrial Maintenance Innovation Conference, on predictive and advanced maintenance; and WORKinn-Talent Hub. The celebration of these fairs as a whole will complete the journey through the entire fabric of industry 4.0.
BIEMH, organized by AFM-Advanced Manufacturing Technologies and Bilbao Exhibition Centre, has the collaboration of the Basque Government and Aimhe-Association of Machine Tool Importers.
Professionals from all over the world from the main strategic sectors such as automotive, aeronautics, energy, oil
Attracting buyers through the Hosted Buyers' Program is one of the main elements of the BIEMH visitor campaign. This program collects the requests of the exhibitors themselves and is essential to attract strategic profiles of maximum interest to BEC.
BIEMH-International Machine-Tool Biennial has great sectoral support from the entire spectrum of advanced manufacturing at the national level. Among many others, the collaboration of AMETIC, Andalucía Aerospace, ANMOPYC, the Spanish Chamber of Commerce, CITI Navarra, the General Council of Industrial Engineering Colleges, FEAMM, FEMEVAL, FVEM, PLATEA, PYMETAL Cantabria or UPM stands out.
Likewise, the Visitors' Department also has an important network of international alliances in countries such as Italy, Portugal, Turkey, Germany, Mexico, the United Kingdom, Argentina or Colombia, among others.
Automation and Robotics is one of the most outstanding sectors of the BIEMH-International Machine-Tool Biennial. A total of 167 exhibiting companies from the automation and robotics sector, from 13 countries (Germany, Austria, Spain, France, Italy, Switzerland, Sweden, the Netherlands, Denmark, the USA, India, South Korea and China), will deploy their full force at the Bilbao Exhibition Centre. The subsectors that will make up this area will be Industrial Robots, Control and Storage Systems, Handling Systems, Industrial Automation and Assembly, Software for Control, Manufacturing and Machines, Solutions for Storage and Transport, Assembly and Assembly Technologies and Systems and CAD-CAM.
The spaces for analysis and reflection take on special importance to address the competitiveness of advanced industry, in a new context in which the sectors are interconnected and pose great challenges to debate. BIEMH will offer the Automation
This program of specific content will be added to the conference agenda of the parallel fairs with the Additive Talks by Addit3D and the Digital Talks by BeDIGITAL, which will vertically and specializedly address all the key issues in the industry.
In addition, the BIEMH content agenda will have its own live broadcast television channel, BIEMH TV. An audiovisual format that will combine news and professional testimonials about the sector throughout the five days, in interviews, reports or round tables. Likewise, BIEMH TV will be joined as transversal content by the Industry Talks, a meeting point for professionals in the sector where they can exchange their experience and professional career, as well as collaborate with large companies on ideas that are committed to digitization, technology and sustainability; and the Women in Industry program, a space for reflection and debate on the need for gender equality in the business sphere and, especially, in the industrial sphere, in a series of talks, debates and round tables, on the challenges faced by companies to be competitive and where the gender gap is an additional challenge. Both initiatives are among the novelties of this year.
