Exhibition Dates

Every year MESSE ESSEN is the venue for a varied programme of top-quality fairs and exhibitions. Here, you will find an attractive mixture of international, national and regional top-class fairs.

About 35 of the established events in Essen are held annually. These include 13 international leading fairs such as Schweißen & Schneiden, E-world energy & water, Fibo, Security, Equitana, IPM and the Essen Motor Show. As many as 30 presentations, shows and special events are also held every year at the Essen fair grounds.

With a total of 13 fairs for leisure activities, the Place of Events is the market leader in this field. The highlights for the public are, for example, the Mode Heim Handwerk, Spiel, Reise/Camping, the Techno-Classica and the Essen Motor Show. The reasons for this particular focal point are obvious: Firstly, leisure activities and hobbies are an attractive growth market. Secondly, roughly 30 million potential visitors live within a radius of only 150 kilometres.

Not only in Germany

In MESSE ESSEN's programme of fairs abroad, the "offshoots" of the welding engineering fair, Schweißen & Schneiden, have become well established. They are the annual fairs Beijing Essen Welding, which is held alternately in Peking and Shanghai, the Essen Welding Asia, which is held in Singapore, and the Essen Welding India in Hyderabad. This programme is being expanded with the Security & Safety Middle East in Abu Dhabi. As a result, MESSE ESSEN is organising the largest trade fair of this nature for the Middle East and North Africa region.