BRUSSELS, Belgium — The European Association of the Machine Tool Industry (CECIMO), owner of the brand EMO, signed an agreement to secure the organization of the next six editions of the EMO trade show.

The deal was reached with the German machine tool builders association (VDW) and Fondazione UCIMU, the operating structure of UCIMU-Sistemi per produrre, the association of Italian manufacturers of machine tools, robots, and automation systems.

The upcoming EMO shows will use the following schedule:

2017: Hannover, Germany

2019: Hannover, Germany

2021: Milan, Italy

2023: Hannover, Germany

2025: Hannover, Germany

2027: Milan, Italy

Italy will host the 2015 edition of EMO at the Fiera Milano exhibition centre from October 5-10.

EMO covers the entire bandwidth of the global machine tool market. At its last edition, EMO Hannover 2013, taking place from 16 to 21 September, over 2,100 exhibitors from 43 different countries were present to showcase their innovations to industrial users from around the world under the events slogan of Intelligence in Production.

Over the six days of EMO, the event attracted a total of just under 145,000 trade visitors from over 100 different nations. Visitors from outside Germany numbered more than 50,000, or one in three.

Since its creation in 1950, CECIMO has committed itself to the promotion of the machine tool industry worldwide and a machine tool exhibition was created for this reason in 1951. It was organized for the first time under the name of EMO (Exposition de la Machine-Outil) in 1975 in Paris.

For more information visit: www.cecimo.eu