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Facts & figures on the 12th International Suppliers Fair (IZB) at Allerpark

IZB Project Manager Josef Schulze Sutthoff and Marcus Köster, Technical Director of the IZB at Messe Wolfsburg, reveal exciting figures about the exhibition centre and this year's exhibitors.

The IZB 2024 in figures

Trade fair set-up

  • Time for set-up and dismantling: 2.9. to 22.11.2024
  • Up to 120 helpers
  • approx. 120 articulated lorries (up to 40 tonnes each) transport the material for the construction
  • Logistics service provider: Schenker Deutschland AG

Cables laid

  • around 10 kilometres of power lines
  • Around 6 kilometres of water and sewage pipes
  • Around 3 kilometres of data cable

Exhibition halls & exhibition areas

  • 6 halls with a total area of around 38,000 square metres
  • Largest hall ever built for an IZB (Hall 3): 7,525 square metres of space, ridge height of 12 metres
  • 400 square metres of outdoor exhibition space between Halls 4 & 5

Personnel - Security & Traffic

  • 215 people ensure security at and around the IZB, from admission control to traffic control and night watch.

Sustainability

  • Hall lighting is provided exclusively with LED lamps
  • over 50 per cent of the floor coverings (approx. 20,000 square metres) are recycled and returned to the cycle in the form of granulate
  • Almost half of the exhibition stands and all public areas (entrances, information counters, meeting rooms) consist of so-called system exhibition stand construction, i.e. the stand construction materials can be reused to a high degree

Who is exhibiting?

  • Around 830 exhibitors from 33 nations
  • More than 40 per cent exhibitors from abroad (‘largest’ nations: Italy - 59, Spain - 39, Turkey - 35, South Korea - 32)
  • Almost 60 per cent German exhibitors from all federal states (federal states with the most exhibitors: North Rhine-Westphalia - 139, Baden-Württemberg - 82, Bavaria - 81, Lower Saxony - 61 (including 17 from Wolfsburg)
  • Volkswagen Group exhibits at four Volkswagen Group Hubs - on the topics: Hall 1: ‘Interior & Exterior’, Hall 3: ‘Electronics & Connectivity’, Hall 5: ‘Powertrain & Battery’, Hall 6: ‘Metal, Body & Chassis’
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