Blechexpo/Schweisstec 2025 Serves Once Again as a Showplace for the Best in the Business

Together with the 10th Schweisstec international trade fair for joining technology, the 17th Blechexpo international trade fair for sheet metal working was a great success. Thanks to their innovations, 1190 exhibitors from 41 countries once again made Blechexpo/Schweisstec an inspiring industry event. Companies specialising in sheet metal working and joining technologies demonstrated impressively the direction in which the industry is heading from the 21st through the 24th of October, 2025: process optimisation and increased overall efficiency through the integration of functions and holistic engineering. The fact that 43% of the exhibitors were from outside of Germany once again confirmed the international significance of this trade fair duo.

Together with the 10th Schweisstec international trade fair for joining technology, the 17th Blechexpo international trade fair for sheet metal working was a great success. International experts in the fields of sheet metal working and joining technology presented their latest developments and highlights in nine jam-packed exhibition halls. 1190 exhibitors from a total of 41 countries – 747 from Germany, Austria and Switzerland, 145 from Italy, 28 from Spain, 20 from France, 53 from Turkey, 87 from China and 37 from the Benelux countries – met up with 40,072 visitors, generating high levels of interest and a very positive atmosphere. “We’re always delighted to be here. Blechexpo is one of our major highlights,” said Bruderer CEO Reto Bruderer, expressing his great satisfaction. “The global stamping technology industry comes together here in Stuttgart, and the response has been extremely positive.” The company’s high-performance stamping machines focus on quality, productivity and sustainability; discussions with customers at the trade fair booth centred primarily on precision, speed, digital networking and integrated system solutions.

“For us, Blechexpo is a central platform for engaging with our customers in person,” confirmed Domenico lacovelli, CEO of Bystronic Laser. Thyssenkrupp Steel is also committed to the further development of current solutions in collaboration with customers in order to meet their specific requirements: “Blechexpo is a key meeting place for the industry. Especially in times of increasingly complex requirements, personal interaction with customers and partners is of great importance,” emphasised Anatol Frantzen, head of Brand and Marketing Communications at Thyssenkrupp Steel. Trumpf is also closely attuned to its customers – bending was high on the agenda for the Ditzingen-based company this year; trade fair visitors were invited to bend their own components and interact with the machine, which met with great interest and enthusiastic response. “For us at Cloos, Schweisstec is the ideal setting for forging strong relationships,” commented Stefanie Nüchtern-Baumhoff, head of marketing and communications at Carl Cloos Schweißtechnik. The company presented intelligent automation solutions as well as modern systems for manual welding in Stuttgart.

“Once again in 2025, Blechexpo/Schweisstec proved to be an ideal platform for communication and innovation,” observed Bettina Schall, managing director of trade fair promoters P. E. Schall. This was also demonstrated by the notable response to the “2025 best Award”. “Numerous companies submitted entries for this innovation award again this year, presenting impressive further developments. I would like to thank all of the companies, teams and developers for their effort,” said Bettina Schall. With your creative solutions, all of you provide the industry with valuable impetus for process efficiency, future viability and sustainability. This special commitment deserves the utmost recognition and sincere thanks!” The best Award recognises technological excellence, innovative strength and team performance within the sheet metal working and joining technology industries. First, second and third place prizes were awarded in five separate categories, corresponding to the thematic layout of the exhibition halls. The winners were honoured at an award ceremony on the afternoon of the first day of the trade fair. The trade fair promoters, together with their media partner Vogel Communications Group (VCG), honoured the most impressive innovations and the outstanding teams that developed them at a festive ceremony. The winners in the category for sheet metal, pipe and profile processing are Prima Power, figure it and InspecVision Limited. Solutions from Nidec SYS, Meusburger Georg and REA Elektronik excelled in the stamping technologies category. First, second and third place in the cutting, joining and fastening technologies category went to Carl Cloos Schweißtechnik, CNC Europe BV-Lasermach and Rivit. The winners in the pressing and forming technologies category are Dreistern, Genkinger and Werner Schmid. Last but not least, SHL, SurFunction and Kaltenbach Cutting Systems were honoured in the steel and metal services and surface finishing technologies category.

The expert talks at the presentation forum were also very well attended again this year. “The open format invites trade fair visitors to participate in accordance with their specific interests and explore a given topic in greater depth,” explains Georg Knauer, project manager for the trade fair duo. “Topics included, for example, future prospects for manufacturing, reduced physical strain at the workplace through the use of exoskeletons and automated quality control through the integration of AI vision,” says Knauer, summarising the programme. “But automated grinding and holistic engineering inspired by the human body were also popular presentation topics. We welcomed large numbers of expert visitors involved in everyday business operations to the trade fair, as well as prominent guests and an anniversary forklift truck from Ireland,” says the project manager. “Career Friday”, held on the last day of the trade fair, was another highlight, providing pupils, teachers, students, university representatives and young professionals with the opportunity of establishing personal contacts within the sheet metal working industry. “This career campaign was a first at Blechexpo/Schweisstec, and it was met with an overwhelming response,” confirms Georg Knauer. Results and success will hopefully become apparent in the coming weeks and months when the newly established contacts are followed by actual deals between interested parties and companies. “We very much look forward to seeing this campaign bear fruit,” said Knauer. “And we’re also delighted that Blechexpo/Schweisstec was once again able to demonstrate the industry’s collective strength. Already today, we would like to invite all participants to the next industry celebration in Stuttgart in October 2027!”

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Schall has developed successful business platforms with internationally recognised trade fairs for quality assurance (Control), optical technologies, components and systems (Optatec), stamping technology (Stanztec), automation in production and assembly (Motek), bonding technology (Bondexpo), plastics processing (Fakuma), sheet metal working (Blechexpo) and joining technology (Schweisstec). This has given rise to completely new markets in various sectors, whose protagonists are characterised by a high level of innovative strength, comprehensive system competence and practical application solutions.