Turkish companies attracted attention at the LIGNA 2025 Fair held in Hannover, Germany, with their strong participation covering 8,000 square meters and their high-tech machinery. With over 50 Turkish companies participating in the fair, AIMSAD’s intensive promotional activities and official contacts also strengthened the sector’s international visibility. Companies seized the opportunity to expand their export networks by establishing new connections with qualified visitors from different continents.
LIGNA, one of the world’s most prestigious trade fairs in the field of woodworking machinery, brought industry stakeholders together for the 50th time this year. The Turkish woodworking machinery sector participated in this year’s event with more than 50 companies, 38 of which are members of AIMSAD. Turkish companies participated in the fair with a total area of 8,000 square meters, positioning Türkiye as the third-largest participating country at LIGNA 2025, following Germany and Italy. Approximately 90% of the total square meters were occupied by AIMSAD members.
Throughout the five-day fair, the booths belonging to AIMSAD members attracted intense visitor interest. Turkish companies showcased not only their products but also their competitive strength in the sector with their high-tech machines. AIMSAD, meanwhile, hosted industry representatives at its booth in Hall 11 under the TWM brand, showcasing Türkiye’s production power and vision in this field to the international community.
78,000 visitors from 156 countries
The fair, which was attended by 1,423 companies from a total of 49 countries and spread over an area of 114,000 square meters, was visited by 78,000 industry professionals from 156 countries. The fair showcased the latest technologies for the wood industry, furniture production, carpentry, and primary processing. Within the framework of this year’s main themes of sustainability and digitalization, many solution proposals were brought to the agenda, while Turkish companies also had the opportunity to establish new business connections from different regions and open up new markets with the innovations they presented.
MAİB representatives took their place at LIGNA and visited companies
The Machinery Exporters’ Association participated in the fair under the Turkish Machinery brand, demonstrating the Turkish machinery sector’s determination and vision in exports. Not only at their booth but also actively throughout the fair, Board Member Fatih Kar, Expert Alperen Eyyüp Atmaca, and Expert Eray Akan conducted company visits. Through these interactions, both the companies’ fair evaluations were gathered and important discussions were held regarding the sector’s orientation toward foreign markets.
In addition, a special promotional booth was set up for the WoodTech Fair, which will be held on October 11-15, 2025. Through this booth, both international visitors were introduced to the sector meeting in Türkiye and the interest of Turkish companies in domestic fair events was increased.
High-level contacts were made at LIGNA 2025
During LIGNA 2025, Hannover Consul General Yusuf Arıkan, Trade Attache Yasemin Özak Coşkun and Yunus Emre Karan, along with Fatih Özçınar, Director of the Machinery and Electronics Industry Department at the Ministry of Industry and Technology, and Büşra Pınarbaşı, Industry and Technology Specialist, visited Turkish companies at the fair and held one-on-one meetings with industry representatives. The discussions focused on the current state of the sector, export potential, and developments in international markets.
In addition, during the fair, AIMSAD met with Dr. Jochen Köckler, CEO of Deutsche Messe AG, LIGNA Global Director Hendrik Rawe, LIGNA President Stephanie Wagner, Hannover Fairs Türkiye International Sales Manager Alemdar Sönmez, and Hannover Fairs Türkiye Project Director Demet Çataklı Avcu to discuss the sector’s position at LIGNA and future collaborations.
“LIGNA 2025 was extremely productive for both our industry and our association”
Arif Onur Kaçak, AIMSAD Board Member and Secretary General
Held every two years in Hannover, Germany, the LIGNA Fair is one of the most important platforms where our industry can showcase its production capacity, technological expertise, and competitiveness in exports on a global scale. The participation process, which began in 2015 under the leadership of AIMSAD, has evolved into a strong organization with over 50 Turkish companies, 38 of which are AIMSAD members. With an exhibition area of approximately 8,000 square meters, Türkiye was the third country with the largest participation at the fair. As AIMSAD, we continued our comprehensive promotional and PR activities this year, enhancing our sector’s international visibility while contributing to our members’ brands reaching new markets. Many of our participating companies left the fair with satisfaction and achieved significant gains through new collaborations and dealership agreements. LIGNA 2025 was extremely productive for both our sector and our association. In the coming period, we aim to further develop our collaboration and increase our global successes.
“We are very happy that we have more than 50 participants from Türkiye”
Dr. Jochen Köckler-Chairman of the Managing Board at Deutsche Messe AG
We are very happy to celebrate this year our 50th anniversary with 1,400 exhibitors with the whole chain from forestry to all the top machinery to woodworking and woodhandling in many, many cases. Thanks a lot to the Turkish community. We are very happy, delighted, and thankful that we have more than 50 exhibitors from Türkiye. We are here in a global exhibition and that shows how strong the Turkish community, the Turkish technologies are in the woodworking and global timber world. I would like to say thank you very much to AIMSAD, the association. We have almost 40 of the exhibitors out there in the organization. And I mentioned every time and here especially exhibitions are every time teamwork. We are so thankful to have you here as an association and we are so thankful to have every single member of you here. I wish all of you great business, a lot of investments, and I am very positive on the topic of wood because it is so sustainable. It grows again and again every day in the forest. And I invite every one of you and even more for the next LIGNA in 2027 here in Hannover. Thank you very much.
“We would like to thank Turkish companies for their participation”
Hendrik Rawe-Global Director of LIGNA
In this year we are celebrating 50 years of LIGNA here in Hannover, Germany. And we celebrated together in 10 halls with more than 1,400 exhibitors with a net space of more than 140,000 square meters. At LIGNA, we are showing the whole process of the woodworking industry and we are very happy to have a lot of exhibitors from Türkiye here in Hannover. Thank you very much for your participation and see you at LIGNA 2027
“Participation of Turkish companies has grown over the years”
Stephanie Wagner-Director of LIGNA
A very special edition this year and we are more than happy to welcome these days 54 exhibitors from Türkiye and we’re very proud to have you all here on roughly 8,000 square meters and it has been growing for years and years. So we’re very proud to have you all here from Türkiye, a strong partnership and it has been in the past and it will continue to be. So thank you AIMSAD very much and thank you Turkish Machinery for the very strong support you gave us in the past. We’re looking forward to work with you and we’re happy to have all those Turkish exhibitors on site.
“The whole fair is buzzing with energy”
Fatih Kar-MAİB Board Member
LIGNA is the second trade fair I have attended with my industry. Last year, we participated in the IWF Trade Fair in Atlanta in August. According to my conversations with visitors, the majority say that this year’s fair was more crowded than in 2023. When evaluating the situation of Turkish companies that did not participate, I believe they should attend LIGNA, one of the industry’s largest trade shows. Buyers and sellers from all over the world are gathered here. The whole fair is buzzing with energy. I believe companies that did not participate should definitely consider attending this trade show.
