LIGNA
The LIGNA ( ligna lat. = The woods) sometimes also Ligna Plus ( Ligna + ) is an exhibition for wood processing and woodworking. It takes place in odd years on the premises of the Hanover Fair . The organizer is the Deutsche Messe AG , co-organizer is the Woodworking Machinery Association in the VDMA eV
prehistory
The Ligna took place until 1975 as part of the Hanover Fair . The large amount of space required led to the idea of outsourcing this area to a separate trade fair event. As a result, the Ligna Plus was created in 1975. Since then, the fair has taken place every two years.
Exhibition focus
You can see machines and devices from the following areas:
- Forestry and forest technology
- Sawmill technology
- Solid wood processing
- Wood-based material and veneer production
- Craft , wood and more
- Furniture industry
- Bioenergy from wood
- Special presentations
The Ligna in numbers
- Ligna Plus 2001
- Visitors: 114.169
- Exhibitor: 1.933
- Area: 145,083 m²
- Ligna Plus 2003
- Visitors: 98.267
- Exhibitor: 1,720
- Area: 132,355 m²
- Ligna Plus 2005
- Visitors: 96,675
- Exhibitor: 1,800
- Area: 129,083 m²
- Ligna Plus 2007
- Visitors 107,000
- Exhibitor: 1,879
- Area: 134,583 m²
- Ligna Plus 2009
- Visitors 83,000
- Exhibitors: 1,758 from 50 countries
- Area: 130,152 m²
- LIGNA 2011
- Visitors: 90,000
- Exhibitors: 1,765 from 52 countries
- Area: 130,000 m²
- LIGNA 2013
- Visitors: 90,000
- Exhibitors: 1,637 from 46 countries
- Area: 124,000 m²
- LIGNA 2015
- Visitors: 96,000
- Exhibitors: 1,567 from almost 50 countries
- Area: 120,000 m²
Web links
- ligna.de - Ligna website