CeMAT Worldwide

The various CeMAT events organized by Deutsche Messe provide the intralogistics sector with excellent opportunities to showcase products and innovations in all the key international markets.  Based on CeMAT in Hannover, the world’s most important event for intralogistics and supply chain management, these trade fairs offer an ideal platform in the relevant countries and regions. CeMAT is by far the biggest intralogistics trade fair in the world, boasting more than 1,000 exhibitors on a total display area of approx. 120,000 square meters and attracting around 50,000 trade visitors from all over the world. Accordingly, the proportion of exhibitors from outside the host country, Germany, is high (over 45 percent), while the corresponding figure for trade visitors is approx. 35 percent. The next CeMAT will take place from 31 May to 3 June 2016 in Hannover, Germany.

Complete overview of the industry

CeMAT in Hannover embraces every area of intralogistics – including innovative, energy-saving forklift trucks and industrial trucks, fully automated handling, shelving and warehousing systems, as well as the latest IT developments. Naturally, the picture would not be complete without displays of cranes, lifting equipment and platforms, auto-ID systems, robot logistics and packaging technology. All these categories are part of the trade fair program, and now port handling technology and transport logistics will be added to this lineup.

The international significance of CeMAT to the global logistics sector is demonstrated by the fact that there are already six regional CeMAT events: 

CeMAT RUSSIA: Deutsche Messe staged the fifth CeMAT RUSSIA in Moscow from 23 to 26 September 2014 at the All-Russian Exhibition Center, one of Moscow’s three most important tradeshow venues. CeMAT RUSSIA covers every sector of intralogistics with an array that includes handling and warehousing equipment, packaging and order picking systems, materials handling, workshop equipment, transport technology and logistics systems, software and services for intralogistics, as well as outsourcing. CeMAT RUSSIA not only provides its exhibitors with access to the Russian market ‒ it also attracts buyers from the neighboring countries that were part of the former Soviet Union. More than 200 exhibitors from 25 countries took part in CeMAT RUSSIA 2014 and 5,315 trade visitors attended the event. The next CeMAT RUSSIA will take place from 19 to 22 September 2015 in Moscow.

CeMAT ASIA: Launched in 2000 in Shanghai, CeMAT ASIA has been held every year since then in October at the Shanghai New International Expo Centre in Shanghai. Attracting more than 500 exhibitors, CeMAT ASIA (27 to 30 October 2014) is the most important intralogistics event in the whole of Asia and focuses on industrial trucks, as well as cranes and lifting equipment, handling systems, storage and warehousing systems, loading technology, including software and accessories for every aspect of materials and goods handling. The trade show takes place parallel to PTC ASIA, the world's second largest trade fair for power transmission and control technology.

CeMAT INDIA:  In December 2007 the era of CeMAT INDIA began in the new exhibition center in Bangalore. The trade fair has been held annually ever since, although in 2009 and 2010 CeMAT INDIA took place in Mumbai at the Bombay Exhibition Centre, before returning to Bangalore. In December 2012 and 2013 the event took place under the brand name WIN INDIA at the Pragati Maidan Exhibition Grounds in Delhi. The trade fair is now scheduled to take place alongside MDA INDIA, Industrial Automation INDIA and Surface Technology INDIA. The next CeMAT INDIA will return to the Delhi venue from 10 -13 December.

CeMAT SOUTH AMERICA: In April 2011 the first CeMAT SOUTH AMERICA took place in the Imigrantes Exhibition Center in São Paulo, Brazil.  This intralogistics trade fair is held every two years. When the second CeMAT SOUTH AMERICA closed on 22 March 2013, the verdict of exhibitors and trade visitors alike was positive. 237 exhibitors from 24 countries had successfully showcased their products and innovations. Apart from Brazil, the biggest exhibitor contingents came from China, Germany, Italy and the USA.  The last trade fair attracted 18,236 visitors, which represented a 45 percent increase compared with 2011. The next CeMAT SOUTH AMERICA runs from 30 June - 3 July 2015 and will coincide with MDA SOUTH AMERICA, the leading trade fair for power transmission and control technology.

Materials Handling Eurasia: Deutsche Messe organizes Materials Handling Eurasia within the context of WIN Automation. Next year the trade fair will run from 19 to 22 March in Istanbul. The organizers expect approx. 100 exhibitors. This event will run parallel to the trade fairs Otomasyon, Electrotec as well as Hydraulic & Pneumatic.

INTRALOGISTICA ITALIA: In future Deutsche Messe will stage INTRALOGISTICA ITALIA in Milan in partnership with the Italian market leader Ipack-Ima S.P.A. This intralogistics fair will take place parallel to the world’s most important packaging technology fair Ipack-Ima, which runs from 19 to 23 May 2015 in Milan. The spectrum covered by INTRALOGISTICA ITALIA spans warehousing technology and factory equipment, packaging and assembly equipment, loading technology, complete logistics systems, transport technology, logistics software, transport logistics services and logistical services.