The 2021 edition of Eisenwarenmesse – the international hardware fair in Cologne – has been canceled due to the pandemic and the appointment postponed to 2022.
Even Eisenwarenmesse, the international hardware fair – initially scheduled in Cologne next February – had to raise the white flag due to the pandemic and postpone the appointment to 2022, between 6 and 9 March. Despite the commitment and attention to ensuring hygiene and safety, the ongoing situation led Koelnmesse and the management of Eisenwarenmesse to give up.
“We sincerely regret the need for this decision. We were well-positioned and believed that many things would have been possible with our hybrid format. A purely digital format would also not have been a substitute for the new, hybrid approach because the focus of the fair is still the physical presence of exhibitors“, emphasizes Catja Caspary, vice president of Koelnmesse.
Eisenwarenmesse director Matthias Becker also shared the same opinion, underlining how “the selling point of the fair is its internationality, with visitors and exhibitors from all over the world” and how, with the roller coaster caused by the pandemic impossible to guarantee the maintenance of this internationality “in view of the continuous increase of infections all over the world and of the blockades of the single states“.
