Due to the increasing global spread of the coronavirus, Messe München is now also postponing automatica 2020. The trade fair will now take place from 8 to 11 December 2020.
„Under the current circumstances, it is not justifiable for our customers to hold automatica in mid-June - for health and economic reasons. We are now looking ahead with confidence so that we can organise a successful automatica 2020 in December together with the industry,“ says Falk Senger, Managing Director of Messe München and responsible for automatica.
The decision to postpone the event was taken by Messe München in close Coordination with the VDMA Robotics + Automation Association as the conceptual sponsor of automatica and taking into account numerous Feedback from exhibitors was held. The trade fair was originally scheduled to take place in Munich from 16 to 19 June.
Patrick Schwarzkopf, Managing Director of VDMA Robotics + Automation explains: „As the conceptual sponsor, VDMA Robotics + Automation supports the postponement of automatica 2020. Due to the current situation, we estimate that the participation of exhibitors and visitors will be increasingly limited. Currently travel options are severely restricted, Added to this is the unpredictability of further developments. This fundamentally jeopardises the feasibility of the trade fair in June. At the same time, the importance of automatica as a World's leading trade fair for intelligent automation and robotics so great that we don't want to take this risk.“
Wilfried Eberhardt, Chairman of the automatica Advisory Board and Chief Marketing Officer of KUKA AG, adds: „In view of the current situation, the postponement of automatica to the end of the year is a logical step. the right decision. In December, the trade fair will serve as an important for a successful time after the crisis and help the industry to emerge stronger from the crisis. current exceptional situation to emerge.“
Source: Munich Trade Fair Centre
