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.
![Bernt Ritz, Consultant for Technology, Standardization and Clamping Tools in the VDMA Precision Tools Association: "The standard sheet serves designers as a checklist which they can use to check which safety-related issues need to be taken into account at the design stage." Photo: VDMA](https://vdw.de/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/01_02_Bernt_Ritz-1-150x150.jpg)
Bernt Ritz, Consultant for Technology, Standardization and Clamping Tools in the VDMA Precision Tools Association: “The standard sheet serves designers as a checklist which they can use to check which safety-related issues need to be taken into account at the design stage.” Photo: VDMA
![The VDMA standard sheet means that, in future, machine manufacturers can be certain that clamping device standards (here a Hainbuch jaw module) have been complied with. Photo: Hainbuch](https://vdw.de/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/01_04_Hainbuch_Backenmodul.teaser-150x150.jpg)
The VDMA standard sheet means that, in future, machine manufacturers can be certain that clamping device standards (here a Hainbuch jaw module) have been complied with. Photo: Hainbuch
![The VDMA standard sheet means that, in future, machine manufacturers can be certain that clamping device standards (here a Hainbuch jaw module) have been complied with. Photo: Hainbuch](https://vdw.de/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/01_04_Hainbuch_Backenmodul-150x150.jpg)
The VDMA standard sheet means that, in future, machine manufacturers can be certain that clamping device standards (here a Hainbuch jaw module) have been complied with. Photo: Hainbuch
![Alfred Hillinger, head of design at Hainbuch GmbH: "The VDMA standard sheet gives us a full and comprehensive basis that minimises typical interface problems." Photo: Hainbuch](https://vdw.de/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/01_03_Alfred_Hillinger-150x150.jpg)
Alfred Hillinger, head of design at Hainbuch GmbH: “The VDMA standard sheet gives us a full and comprehensive basis that minimises typical interface problems.” Photo: Hainbuch
![VDMA Verband Deutscher Maschinen- und Anlagenbau e.V., 60528 Frankfurt, 20.01.2017 (c) Team Uwe Nölke | Fotografie & Film für Menschen & Unternehmen, D-61476 Kronberg, Brunnenweg 21, T +49 6173 321413, look@team-uwe-noelke.de, www.team-uwe-noelke.de](https://vdw.de/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/01_02_Bernt_Ritz-150x150.jpg)
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![Dr. Volker Wittstock, Professorship of Machine Tool Design and Forming Technology, TU Chemnitz: "Tests with our trainees revealed that they had problems fastening the chuck to the lathe as this was a task they did not have to perform very often." Photo: Fecht](https://vdw.de/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/01_01_Volker_Wittstock-150x150.jpg)
Dr. Volker Wittstock, Professorship of Machine Tool Design and Forming Technology, TU Chemnitz: “Tests with our trainees revealed that they had problems fastening the chuck to the lathe as this was a task they did not have to perform very often.” Photo: Fecht
![Carl Martin Welcker, EMO General Commissioner, (r) and Dr. Wilfried Schäfer, CEO of the EMO event organizer VDW (German Machine Tool Builders’ Association), looking back on a successful EMO Hannover 2019.](https://vdw.de/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/teaser-1-150x150.jpg)
Carl Martin Welcker, EMO General Commissioner, (r) and Dr. Wilfried Schäfer, CEO of the EMO event organizer VDW (German Machine Tool Builders’ Association), looking back on a successful EMO Hannover 2019.
![Visitors from Asia, particularly India, China, Japan and Taiwan, made up almost one third of foreign visitors this year.](https://vdw.de/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/messe_20190923-100632-150x150.jpg)
Visitors from Asia, particularly India, China, Japan and Taiwan, made up almost one third of foreign visitors this year.
![Carl Martin Welcker, EMO General Commissioner, (r) and Dr. Wilfried Schäfer, CEO of the EMO event organizer VDW (German Machine Tool Builders’ Association), looking back on a successful EMO Hannover 2019.](https://vdw.de/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/messe_20190923-100632-3-150x150.jpg)
Carl Martin Welcker, EMO General Commissioner, (r) and Dr. Wilfried Schäfer, CEO of the EMO event organizer VDW (German Machine Tool Builders’ Association), looking back on a successful EMO Hannover 2019.
![The EMO motto: “Smart technologies driving tomorrow’s production” accurately anticipated the key themes at EMO Hannover 2019.](https://vdw.de/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/messe_20190923-100632-2-150x150.jpg)
The EMO motto: “Smart technologies driving tomorrow’s production” accurately anticipated the key themes at EMO Hannover 2019.
![From 16 to 21 September, round about 117,000 international production specialists from 150 countries convened at EMO Hannover 2019.](https://vdw.de/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/messe_20190923-100632-1-150x150.jpg)
From 16 to 21 September, round about 117,000 international production specialists from 150 countries convened at EMO Hannover 2019.
![Grouppicture: Andrea Janssen](https://vdw.de/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/W30My3Sg-150x150.jpeg)
Grouppicture: Andrea Janssen
![EMO Hannover (16. bis 21. September 2019) - Worlds premier fair of metalworking](https://vdw.de/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Teaser-eröffnung-eng-150x150.jpg)
EMO Hannover (16. bis 21. September 2019)
![Polyurethane timing belt destroyed by influence of cooling lubricant Photo: VDW](https://vdw.de/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/KSS-format-150x150.jpg)
Polyurethane timing belt destroyed by influence of cooling lubricant Photo: VDW
![New technologies open up opportunities for new business fields](https://vdw.de/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Forum-New-Technologies_EMO2019_Quelle-Deutsche-Messe-AGformat.-150x150.jpg)
Forum New Technologies_EMO2019_Quelle-Deutsche-Messe-AGformat.
![New technologies open up opportunities for new business fields](https://vdw.de/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Forum-New-Technologies_EMO2019_Quelle-Deutsche-Messe-AG.-1-150x150.jpg)
Forum New Technologies_EMO2019_Quelle-Deutsche-Messe-AG.