Press Photos and Picture Database
So as to support your reporting on VDW and the German machine tool industry, we will be pleased to make available to you pictures and photos for editorial use. Please make sure you always give the correct source attribution(s). We would very much appreciate it if after publication you could send us a link or a courtesy copy of your coverage for our archives.
You will always find press material for covering our NORTEC and EMO Hannover trade fairs on the website of the fair in question. For photos, audio contributions and videos on EMO Hannover, please follow this link. You can retrieve press photos on NORTEC here.

The VDW China Office is based in the Shanghai Waigaoqiao International Machine Tool Center (IMT) and represents the German machine tool industry in China.

METAV 2022 will be postponed to June 21-24. This is intended to create planning security for exhibitors and avoid further costs.

Franz-Xaver Bernhard, Gosheim, Chairman of the VDW

Men wearing surgical face masks practicing social distancing outdoors

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METAV web sessions are about to start on 6th october 2020.

METAV web sessions are about to start on 6th october 2020.

“With our partner IndustryArena, the first METAV Web Sessions went off without a hitch”, says Stephanie Simon, organiser of the METAV Web Sessions.

certificate of participation to the Web Sessions.

Göbel, Martin – VDW

METAV Web-Sessions.

Horn’s JET-whirling process – developed for the production of high-precision, dimensionally stable bone screws made of titanium and stainless steel – extends tool life and prevents chip accumulation. Photo: Paul Horn

Horn’s JET-whirling process – developed for the production of high-precision, dimensionally stable bone screws made of titanium and stainless steel – extends tool life and prevents chip accumulation.

Christian Thiele, Press Spokesman at Hartmetall-Werkzeugfabrik Paul Horn GmbH, Tübingen. Photo: Paul Horn

Additive manufacturing processes offer great potential for medical technology, especially in cases where the post-processing stage can be automated. The picture shows an autonomous, robot-supported post-processing cell from the Fraunhofer companies’ Future AM project for the removal of support structures and the creation of target geometries. Photo: Fraunhofer IWU

Christian Rotsch is Head of the Medical Engineering Department at the Fraunhofer Institute for Machine Tools and Forming Technology (IWU), Dresden/Chemnitz Photo: Fraunhofer IWU