When you haven’t already, it’s time to mark your calendars: Formnext, one of many additive trade’s most vital occasions, is again and can convey collectively folks from all around the world AM trade from November 18 to 21, 2025. This yr, Formnext 2025 will reportedly be putting a higher concentrate on business AM purposes with the purpose of showcasing the methods during which AM is giving corporations in sectors like mechanical and plant engineering a definite benefit throughout the broader market.
Formnext’s honorary sponsor, the VDMA’s (Germany’s mechanical engineering trade affiliation) Additive Manufacturing Working Group will play a key function on this focus, presenting quite a few profitable use circumstances from its sector. In keeping with the AM occasion, these use circumstances reveal how additive options are empowering mechanical engineering finish customers to unravel challenges associated to useful resource effectivity, useful integration and half growth.
“To attain the specified degree of trade consciousness, it is important that professional networks such because the VDMA and high-profile platforms comparable to Formnext work collectively effectively,” mentioned Dr. Markus Heering, Managing Director of the AM Affiliation of the VDMA. Certainly, what higher option to showcase AM’s business and industrial success than by impactful purposes. Formnext 2025 guests will have the ability to see many of those related use circumstances within the VDMA’s Present Case Space, which in 2025 has the theme of “Worthwhile Industrial Options.”
Formnext 2025, name for audio system
Along with asserting the VDMA-supported focus, Formnext organizers are additionally reminding trade members that it’s nonetheless accepting purposes for audio system for its Software and Trade Phases. The deadline has been prolonged to July 31, 2025.
Formnext 2025’s stage program covers three levels, the Trade, Software and Expertise Phases, on which trade consultants will share their insights and views with audiences. The Software Stage, for which there’s nonetheless an open name for audio system, will present a platform for discussing sensible purposes for additive manufacturing and new utility concepts.
“With the rising industrialization of additive manufacturing, commercially profitable purposes are rising in quantity and in relevance,” commented Christoph Stüker, Vice President Formnext at Mesago Messe Frankfurt. “Sharing these use circumstances is crucial to ascertain AM in different sectors and develop new options for particular challenges.”
On the Trade Stage, varied entrepreneurs and consultants will discuss challenges going through the trade, comparable to sustainability, in addition to matters like synthetic intelligence, funding, certifications and requirements, schooling and expertise and extra. The Expertise Stage (now not open for speaker purposes), will have a look at the most recent technological developments within the trade.
As of March 2025, 533 corporations from 34 international locations had already registered to exhibit their options and companies at Formnext 2025. It is usually nonetheless potential to register as an exhibitor for the upcoming occasion.
