ANFIA – Formula SAE Italy
Formula SAE Italy allows engineering students to design and build single-seater competition vehicles, including combustion, electric, and driverless prototypes. On the occasion of MECSPE, the prototypes and the technologies used are showcased to highlight the connection between education and industry.
Read moreAdditive Manufacturing Arena
A space dedicated to innovation: Located within the ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING pavilion, the Arena will offer an immersive and highly technological experience with round tables, successful case studies, and presentations by leading industry experts.
Read moreAIDAM Village
The AIDAM Village within MECSPE is a highly innovative technological area representing the Italian automation and mechatronics sector—an industry with a turnover of 15 billion euros and a workforce of 38,000 people.
Read moreArianna Project
A project that connects technical education with the world of work in the field of industrial automation, offering a modular approach to learning and experimentation.
Read moreASCOMUT Village
Also confirmed in this edition is the presence of the Ascomut Association, Machine Technology and Tools.
Read moreCybersecurity Arena
At MECSPE, the Piazza della Cybersecurity comes to life, a space dedicated to one of the most strategic topics for the manufacturing industry: cybersecurity, where companies and professionals come together to share experiences and solutions.
Read moreDemonstration Unit: from Plastic to Shape
A demonstration area dedicated to exploring the entire production process, from design to the finished product, showcasing the different processing stages. A space designed to highlight skills, training and experimentation, creating a concrete link between education and the world of work.
Read moreDemonstration Unit: Polymeric AM
A demonstration area dedicated to polymer Additive Manufacturing, designed to guide visitors through the entire production workflow: from digital design to 3D printing, up to the post-processing stages. A space that highlights the advantages of this solution, enabling the creation of functional components, complex geometries, and faster production processes.
Read moreEducation hub
From the collaboration between MECSPE and Fondazione ITS A. Cuccovillo, Piazza della Formazione 5.0 is an area designed to share projects, experiences, and skills developed by ITS students together with partner companies.
The initiative aims to strengthen the connection between education and the business world, promoting active student participation and recognizing the increasingly central role of companies in educational pathways.
Read moreElettronica
Italia
The event is dedicated to all innovations in the electronics industry and aims to present the latest innovations and technologies in the sector to the Italian and international public.
Read moreInnovation Tour for Skills
Thanks to the collaboration with ART-ER, on March 6, 2026, the Innovation Tour for Skills will be organized, an initiative that offers exhibiting companies from Emilia-Romagna and highly qualified young talents the opportunity to meet through a guided tour of each company’s stand.
Read moreMECSPE LAB – Innovation Area
For each edition MECSPE organizes an Innovation Area, a special initiative aimed at anticipating market trends and disseminating innovative contents, through the creation of demonstration production chains, round tables, speeches and moments of discussion, created with the collaboration of partners, exhibitors of the event and technical sponsors of the initiative.
MECSPE Sustainability Pathway
A virtual and real journey among MECSPE exhibitors who adopt a green and ecofriendly policy in their business strategies, distinguishing themselves by paying special attention to the environment.
MECSPE Young & Career
MECSPE Young & Career is the special initiative designed to connect companies looking for new professionals and young talents interested in entering the world of manufacturing and industry 5.0.
Read morePiazza MECH by Clust-ER MECH
The Mechatronics and Advanced manufacturing Clust-ER (Clust-ER MECH) is an association of over 140 companies, research centres and training bodies, sharing skills, ideas and resources to support competitiveness and innovation in the advanced manufacturing sector.
Read morePiazza TMP
At MECSPE, TMP – the Italian Association of Plastics Technicians presents Piazza TMP, a collective space that brings its members together under a single identity, offering a comprehensive and qualified overview of the plastics supply chain, from processing technologies to recovery and recycling solutions.
Read morePLEIADES - IUAV
An area dedicated to University IUAV of Venice students, where innovative 3D printing projects interact with the industrial world. A space designed to showcase creativity, skills, and innovation, giving visibility to students’ ideas and achievements.
Read moreSolution Award – 11th edition
The Solution Award – Robotics Innovation Award is back. Reaching its 11th edition, the initiative rewards the best industrial or service robotics application realised by Italian companies, in two categories.
Start Up Factory
Within the Start Up Factory, an initiative dedicated to innovative B2B startups, emerging companies meet professionals from the industrial and manufacturing sectors, creating opportunities for dialogue, innovation, and competitiveness.
Read moreAIFM
AIFM is open to all operators in the galvanic sector and aims to provide the widest possible associative service to the Galvanic and Metal Surface Treatment Industry; the Association is qualified for its commitment to the dissemination of scientific and technical culture, with its own magazine “Galvanotecnica e nuove finiture” and by organizing conferences, seminars and training courses for galvanic operators.
Read moreCNA
CNA Produzione represents and safeguards about 40,000 artisan companies and small and medium enterprises belonging to the manufacturing sectors of the own account and third-party engineering, woodwork and furniture, doors and windows, leisure boating, chemicals-glass-rubber-plastics industries.
Read moreConfapi Brescia
Confapi Brescia is the association of entrepreneurs which, since 1962, has represented Brescia companies by protecting their moral, trade union and economic interests. With this objective, it exercises its representation in all political, institutional and trade unions where it is appropriate to be present so that SMEs are given the weight and the role they deserve in the local and national economic landscape.
Confapi Unionmeccanica
Confapi Unionmeccanica is the association of small and medium-sized industrial and manufacturing companies in the metalworking sector, distributed throughout the country and involving more than 420,000 workers. The association has about 40,000 members.
Confartigianato Village
Confartigianato Imprese is the largest European network that represents these people’s interests and provides them with services. Established in 1946, Confartigianato accompanies companies as they evolve, combining traditional ancient trades and innovative activities using advanced technologies.
Read moreConfimi Meccanica
Confimi Meccanica represents the manufacturing and engineering companies within the Confimi Industria system. It brings together mainly SMEs in the mechanical and mechatronics sector, offering technical support, institutional representation and personalised services.
Read moreConfindustria Emilia
Confindustria Emilia is a non-profit association that brings together 3500 companies in an area covering the provinces of Bologna, Ferrara, and Modena. The companies are grouped into 20 value chain clusters, among which the most numerous and important are those of metals and composite materials, machinery, automotive, plastics, and mechatronics.
Read moreINFORMARE, Chamber of Commerce of Frosinone and Latina
INFORMARE is the Special Agency of Frosinone Latina Chamber of Commerce, established to support and promote businesses and the territory in their growth within the global market.
Read morePOLIEFUN
Poliefun is the association born from the collaboration of companies in the Surface Treatment sector and the university world, under the technical-scientific guidance of the Politecnico di Milano, to create a real and concrete point of contact between the world of work and study courses.
Rete Ufficio Estero
Ufficio Rete Estero offers companies a service for researching and developing potential contacts in order to identify new markets, new sectors and above all new customers in foreign markets.
UICF – ANIMA Confindustria Meccanica
UCIF is affiliated with ANIMA, which represents the mechanics sector in Confindustria. The relationship with ANIMA ensures UCIF broad visibility on the international scene, presence at sector tables, and greater collegial strength.
MECSPE, the international reference fair for the manufacturing industry, attracts significant interest from abroad.
Aiming to create a meeting point between supply and demand, and thanks to close collaboration with ICE, the Agency for the promotion abroad and internationalization of Italian companies, exhibitors at MECSPE Bologna had the opportunity to meet delegations of buyers from European and non-European countries during the event through a program of matching and one-to-one business meetings.
This is an important opportunity to establish direct contact with new potential customers or to strengthen one’s network of foreign distributors/importers.
