Excellent Booking Status for LIGNA’s Anniversary Edition in 2025

A year before LIGNA 2025 celebrates its 50th anniversary, it is already receiving significant support from exhibiting companies.

Focus Topics as Enablers of Future Value Creation in Woodworking

With its focus topics LIGNA.CONNECTIVITY, LIGNA.SUSTAINABLE PRODUCTION and LIGNA.ENGINEERED WOOD, LIGNA 2025 in Hannover will be an important source of direction and impetus for the entire industry. Over the course of five days, the world's premier trade fair for woodworking and wood processing tools, machines, and systems will highlight the advancements in the key transformation processes.

5 Questions for Stephanie Wagner

Stephanie Wagner has been working for LIGNA for 14 years - she has been Project Manager since 2022. In this short interview, she shares what she has experienced at LIGNA so far.

4 Questions for Dr Bernhard Dirr

In 2007, Dr Bernhard Dirr accompanied the first LIGNA as Managing Director of VDMA Woodworking Machinery. On the occasion of LIGNA's 50th anniversary, he looks back on his LIGNA experiences.

5 Questions for Dennis Bieselt

Dennis Bieselt has been part of the LIGNA organisation team at VDMA Woodworking Machinery for 25 years. A wealth of experience that he shares on the occasion of the 50th anniversary.

5 Questions for Christian Pfeiffer

Christian Pfeiffer was head of the LIGNA department at Deutsche Messe AG from 2013 to 2022. He shares his highlights from this time.

LIGNA celebrates its 50th Anniversary

The woodworking community has a milestone birthday coming up: LIGNA will be celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2025. During the height of the oil crisis in 1975 the world's leading trade fair for the woodworking and wood processing industry emerged from HANNOVER MESSE, where it had its home for many years as the continuously growing “Woodworking Machinery Group Show” under the auspices of the then Fachgemeinschaft Holzbearbeitungsmaschinen im VDMA e. V. (Woodworking Machinery Association).

Making of LIGNA Baton 2025

It's time again to pass our baton through the world of the woodworking and wood processing industry!

New Project from Tischler Schreiner Deutschland: "Workshop Ergonomics"

The presentation of the results of the new project by Tischler Schreiner Deutschland: "Workshop Ergonomics" will take place at LIGNA.25 in 2025.

LIGNA with new Event Dates from 2027 onwards

From 2027, LIGNA will be setting a new strategic course in terms of dates. It will leave the usual event period over Ascension Day and from 2027 onwards will continue to be held in the odd-numbered years – but detached from the public holiday – in spring in Hanover, Germany.

Tischler Schreiner Deutschland launches #holzrettetklima initiative

Climate friendliness and wood go hand in hand. This was not only reflected in the focus topics at LIGNA.23 - topics such as the circular economy and building with wood will also determine the tenor of the event at LIGNA.25. As a sustainable raw material, wood and products made from wood form the basis of a climate-friendly future.

Every second Company is looking for Employees

Tischler Schreiner Deutschland presents survey results on the skilled labor situation in the joinery and carpentry trade

Position as the world's leading trade show further expanded

Over its five-day run, from 15 to 19 May, LIGNA 2023, the world’s leading trade fair for woodworking and wood processing featured a plethora of innovations, inspiration and networking. 1,300 companies from 50 different countries presented their solutions for the wood industry, the furniture-making industry, the woodworking trades and the primary sector.

"Deuscher Holzbaupreis" Award 2023 presented at LIGNA

Under the patronage of the Federal Ministry of Housing, Urban Development and Construction, Holzbau Deutschland - Bund Deutscher Zimmermeister awarded the German Timber Construction Prize 2023 on May 16, 2023. The award ceremony took place during the world's leading trade fair for the international woodworking and wood processing industry, LIGNA, in Hannover.

The Baton of LIGNA

5 federal states. 6 weeks. 18 stages. This year, our exhibitor Leitz is drawing attention to its participation in LIGNA.23 with a special kind of campaign.

First glue - then live in it

At LIGNA 2023, Henkel's Engineered Wood business unit will present its advanced portfolio of solutions for the solid wood industry. The focus will be on sustainable innovations and adhesives with a focus on fire protection.

Smart and human into a successful future

SCM presents itself at LIGNA 2023 with numerous innovations for all application areas of the second stage of woodworking on a total exhibition area of 3000 square meters.

Accurate and efficient thanks to focused light

LASER COMPONENTS, a self-proclaimed solution finder for complex optical and optoelectronic challenges, is presenting various laser modules at LIGNA 2023 that are especially suited for use in woodworking.

Practice makes perfect...

At LIGNA 2023, the Regional Vocational Training Center Flensburg, a technical school for technology and design, will be demonstrating how its students have successfully completed project assignments on the subject of furniture development.

Working together for Success

The Altendorf Group is the world market leader in the manufacture of sliding table saws and edge banding machines. At LIGNA 2023, customers will be able to find out about all aspects of a successful partnership as well as high-quality products and services on more than 600 square meters of stand space.

Less tension makes for more independent working

Visitors to LIGNA 2023 will be able to discover a number of exclusive new products from Festool. The tool experts are also looking forward to answering all questions about the 18-volt portfolio and much more on site.

Evolutionary story with a happy ending

With the AXOLOX, the latest evolutionary stage of the successful "Holzfraese", now presented for the first time at LIGNA 2023, ideas can now be turned into individual and automated products even faster, safer and more professionally.

Austrians drill thick Boards for thin-cutting

Machine and plant manufacturer WINTERSTEIGER will be exhibiting a total of six machines for thin-cutting and wood surface treatment at LIGNA 2023 in Hannover.

The perfect Shaft - for Waste Wood Recyclers

Big premiere: at LIGNA 2023 WEIMA will present the retreaded WL 4 single-shaft shredder for waste wood. Together with the C 150 briquette press, the focus in Hanover will thus be on sustainable energy generation.

Good Mood among Woodworking Machinery Manufacturers

VDMA market analyst: decarbonization megatrend has a positive effect on the industry