ABOUT VDW Verein Deutscher Werkzeugmaschinenfabriken. E. V.

he VDW (German Machine Tool Builders Association) for more than 110 years has been the spokesman for the German machine tool industry. Together with the Specialized Section Machine Tools and Manufacturing Systems in the VDMA, it has 280 members united in voluntary association. They represent approximately 90 percent of all turnover in the branch. Since 1920 the VDW has organized trade fairs for machine tool builders and is so-to-speak the founder of the trade fair for production technology. The trademark A Fair by VDW stands for highly professional organized fairs such as EMO Hannover since 1977 and METAV Dusseldorf since 1980.