MECSPE - The international reference fair for the manufacturing industry

Key facts

Attendance 2025

66 573

Exhibitors

2 100

Floor space

100 000 m²

Admission

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Frequency

Annual

Editions

1 (2026)

Attendance and exhibitor figures for 2025 are the organizer's own and are not independently audited. They may include co-located or joint exhibitions.

MECSPE - The international reference fair for the manufacturing industry is an annual trade fair in Bologna covering additive manufacturing, machines and tools and automation. The most recent edition on record ran 4–6 March 2026 at Fiera di Bologna; no future date has been announced. The 2025 edition reported 66,573 visitors and 2,100 exhibitors, a figure published by the organiser and not independently audited. Organised by Senaf Srl.

What is exhibited

• additive manufacturing
• automation
• industry 5.0
• logistics
• machines and tools
• plastics machinery and mechanical subcontracting
• robotics
• sheet metal working machines
• Technologies and innovations related to mechanical engineering

J-messe subject tags

JETRO's own classification, kept verbatim. Fairs carry several; the sector in the sidebar is the single one this site browses by.

• Machine Tools & Metalworking
• Testing & Measurement
• Manufacturing & Engineering
• Advanced Materials
• Electrical & Electronics
• Metals, Hardware & Tools

Editions on record

Every dated instance of this fair the database holds. A series keeps one identity across renames and moves; each row below is one edition of it.

Where this came from

Field-level provenance for the most recent edition: what each fact came from, how far it is trusted, and when it was last checked.