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IAA PREVIEW
IAA Hannover Focuses on New Age of Mobility
seven key themes. These will be as follows:
- Buses in local and long-distance transport – emissions-free, safe and
months of this year, Western Europe has again expanded by 14 per cent. The major markets – France, the UK and Italy – have
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strong double-digit year-on-year growth. The top performers are Spain and the Netherlands, with growth rates of over 20 per cent.
vans were newly registered. That represents growth of 11 per cent.” As the largest commercial vehicle show in Europe, the emphasis at
CommercialTyre
Management
and Fleet Business
The 66th IAA Commercial Vehicle Show takes place in Hannover, Germany from September 22 to 29 this year with a focus on how road freight traffic and logistics will continue to develop in the age of new mobility.
Under the strapline of “New Mobility World Logistics” the organisers will invite visitors to the show to familiarise themselves with five key topics, namely the connected vehicle, automated driving, alternative powertrains, urban logistics and transport services. They will be able to do this in a number of different ways, through presentations in the form of congresses with discussion forums and exhibitions, test drives in electric vehicles, and demonstrations of products, services and applicatins in the “New Mobility World LIVE” demonstration area. The organisers will also be offering four themed guided tours for the first time.
The individual congresses, which will form part of the “New Mobility World Logistics” set-up will cover
connected.
- Drones in logistics – from Vision to Reality.
- Digitisation in in commercial vehicles.
- New Mobility World Lab 16 – Startups meet Industry.
- The digital revolution in the automotive industry.
- Urban logistics of the future.
- Commercial vehicles as innovation leaders in automation and connectivity.
In a statement delivered in June 23rd at the German Association of the Automotive Industry’s (VDA) International Press Workshop in Frankfurt, VDA President Matthias Wissmann showed himself to be very optimistic about the state of the automotive industr y and of the prospects for a successful exhibition.
“There is no doubt that the Western European commercial vehicle market is bolstering the IAA,” he said. “Last year 259,000 heavy trucks over 6 tonnes were newly registered. That was a rise of a whole 14 per cent. In the first five
The recovery process is stable and robust, and for the year as a whole we expect to see a rise of 8 per cent.
“The Western European van market is also still picking up,” he added.
the show is understandably focused on new technology, and particularly on new vehicles. However, the show is also used extensively by the tyre manufacturers as a place where it can show off its latest technology to
“Sales of light commercial vehicles showed a double-digit increase in both 2014 and 2015. This dynamic development is continuing: in the first four months a good 600,000
truck and bus fleets from across Europe. The same applies to the manufacturers of truck wheels, who will also be well represented at the show.
At the time of writing; companies from the cv tyre and wheel sector listed as exhibiting at the IAA were as follows:
Aeolus Tyre
Alcoa
Alligator
Athos
Bridgestone
Car-O-Liner (Josam) 23D42 Continental 17A06
Hankook Interpneu Jantsa
14-15A01 16A32 26C17
16A37 25B13 11D21 25A44 16C01
Maxion
Michelin
Motor Wheel Service Pneuhage
Safety Seal
Speedline Truck Ventech
Z-Tyre
Zhongce Rubber
20E47 17A20 24A35 16A32 23D41 25B39 24F11 25D71 16A32