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Review
FABTECH 2025
Chicago Confirms Its Role as a
Global Manufacturing Hub
FABTECH 2025 concluded successfully at
improvements in production precision and
McCormick Place in Chicago, once again
efficiency. The event included over 200
confirming its position as North America’s
conference sessions covering topics such as
key trade fair for metal forming, fabrication,
digitalisation, materials, workforce devel-
welding and finishing technologies, accord-
opment, and process optimisation, provid-
ing to post-event trade media and exhibitor
ing both practical insights and networking
feedback. The exhibition attracted approx-
opportunities.
imately 42,000 attendees and over 1,700
Exhibitors reported high-quality visitor
exhibitors across 885,000 square feet,
engagement and promising business leads,
including around 300 first-time participants
particularly in the automotive, aerospace,
and more than 800 new product launches.
and general fabrication sectors. Overall,
The show highlighted automation, digital
post-event reporting and exhibitor state-
manufacturing, and robotic solutions,
ments indicate a positive market sentiment,
with live demonstrations drawing strong
with FABTECH 2025 reinforcing its role
interest from visitors. Advanced metrol-
as a central hub for innovation, industry
ogy and quality-control technologies
insights, and professional exchange in the
were also prominently featured, offering
manufacturing sector.
Chicago
08-11 Sep 2025
Daniel Ryfisch and Hans-Joerg Braun
Always nice to meet
ITA friends from all
over the world
Iwao Nakata, Hans-Joerg Braun
Nelson-Abbey Fives-Bronx
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