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SPS – Smart Production Solutions Guangzhou announces new strategic partners for 2025

5 Dec 2024

SPS – Smart Production Solutions Guangzhou 2025, a leading exhibition for smart and digital automation, continues to draw strong interest from across the South China and the Greater Bay Area manufacturing sectors. Taking place from 25 – 27 February 2025 in Area A of Guangzhou’s China Import and Export Fair Complex, the upcoming event will introduce the China Association for Mechatronics Technology and Application (CAMETA) and the World Manufacturing Foundation (WMF) as new strategic partners. In addition to exhibitor recruitment, these organisations will co-organise a number of concurrent forums and presentations, bringing professional content and resources to support the industry’s development.

With its extensive network in the fields of industrial automation, robotics, industrial software, digitalisation, intelligent equipment and more, CAMETA will assist in enlisting exhibitors for the 2025 show. It will also host a forum designed to encourage industry knowledge exchange and the development of practical solutions for these sectors.

Alongside, the WMF will co-host “New Perspectives for the Future of Manufacturing: Outlook 2030”, a session exploring regional manufacturing trends in key markets such as Europe, North America, and China. Industry experts will share their perspectives on challenges and opportunities that manufacturers are facing in these areas. Collaborating with these two authoritative industry organisations will ensure that the fair’s concurrent events remain aligned with industry needs and continues to set new standards, further solidifying SPS – Smart Production Solutions Guangzhou’s status as a leading exhibition for the region’s manufacturing industry.

A comprehensive line-up of forums and activities
Together with these new concurrent events, SPS – Smart Production Solutions Guangzhou 2025 will see the return of its popular forum and conference programme, designed to enhance learning and networking opportunities for attendees. Special emphasis will be placed on the impact of digitalisation, robotics, industrial AI, and large language models (LLMs) on the manufacturing sector. Highlights of the programme include:

  • Digital Transformation for Sustainable Manufacturing Summit
  • Humanoid Robots and Embodied AI Development in the Era of New Industrialisation Conference
  • OPC UA Forum – Digitalisation Empowers Enterprise Transformation
  • New Perspectives on the Future of Manufacturing: Outlook 2030
  • China International Sensor Innovation and Start-up Competition (South China Division) Award Ceremony
  • High Quality Development of Intelligent Manufacturing in the Automotive Industry Forum
  • Conference on Improving Digitalisation in the Pearl River Delta
  • Industrial AI and Large Language Model Applications Support the Development of New Quality Productivity in Manufacturing

An overwhelming market response
The fair has already attracted considerable attention from the industry following its announcement, with over 80% of exhibition space already secured as of the end of November. Confirmed exhibitors include Autonics, Binder, Bonfiglioli, Controlway, Coolmay, Datalogic, Defuro, DEGSON, DINKLE, DS, ESPE, Golytec Automation,  Hongrun, HUALONG, Jaten, Junlian, KNK, Lanbao, Laxei, Li-Gong, Marvtech, Schmersal, Senpum, Shijie Intelligent, SinceVision, Sipeize Intelligent, SUNPN, SUPERISYS, SUPU, Sygole, Tianli, Tongchuang, UTEK, Wanjie Electronic, WCON Electronics, WDIR Electric, ZZ MOTION and more.

With visitor pre-registration now open and international visitors already signing up in great numbers, the fair’s 2025 edition will enable domestic companies to showcase their latest products and innovations to an increasingly diverse global audience. Through encouraging such international collaboration, the exhibition aims to bring China’s intelligent manufacturing industry into closer alignment with global standards and drive conversations on the future of manufacturing.

SPS - Smart Production Solutions Guangzhou is co-organised by Guangzhou Guangya Messe Frankfurt Co Ltd, China Foreign Trade Guangzhou Exhibition Co Ltd, Guangzhou Overseas Trade Fairs Ltd and Mesago Messe Frankfurt GmbH. Guangdong Association of Automation, Guangzhou Association of Automation and Guangzhou Instrument and Control Society serve as honourary organisers. The fair is also supported by the China Light Industry Machinery Association, the China International Chamber of Commerce Guangzhou Chamber of Commerce, and the Beijing Internet of Things Intelligent Technology Application Association.

For more details about the fairs, please visit www.spsinchina.com or email sps@china.messefrankfurt.com.

Further events within the international SPS network include:

  • SPS – Smart Production Solutions
    25 – 27 November 2025, Nuremberg, Germany
  • SPS Stage Bangkok
    6 – 8 March 2025, Bangkok, Thailand
  • SPS Italia
    13 – 15 May 2025, Parma, Italy
  • SPS Stage Kuala Lumpur
    14 – 16 May 2025, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
  • SPS Atlanta
    16 – 18 September 2025, Atlanta, United States

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Background information on Messe Frankfurt
The Messe Frankfurt Group is the world’s largest trade fair, congress and event organiser with its own exhibition grounds. With a workforce of some 2,500* people at its headquarters in Frankfurt am Main and in 28 subsidiaries, it organises events around the world. Group sales in financial year 2024 were around € 780* million. We serve our customers’ business interests efficiently within the framework of our Fairs & Events, Locations and Services business fields. One of Messe Frankfurt’s key strengths is its powerful and closely knit global sales network, which covers around 180 countries in all regions of the world. Our comprehensive range of services – both onsite and online – ensures that customers worldwide enjoy consistently high quality and flexibility when planning, organising and running their events. We are using our digital expertise to develop new business models. The wide range of services includes renting exhibition grounds, trade fair construction and marketing, personnel and food services.

Sustainability is a central pillar of our corporate strategy. Here, we strike a healthy balance between ecological and economic interests, social responsibility and diversity.

For more information, please visit our website at: www.messefrankfurt.com/sustainability

With its headquarters in Frankfurt am Main, the company is owned by the City of Frankfurt (60 percent) and the State of Hesse (40 percent).

For more information, please visit our website at: www.messefrankfurt.com

*Preliminary figures 2024

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