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We are committed to ensuring that EXPOMAFE has a positive impact on people and the planet. We aim to play a key role in helping the entire sector community improve its own sustainability by connecting people to the networks and knowledge they need to help solve the major challenges of the future.
EXPOMAFE, the international trade fair for machine tools and industrial automation, recognizes the importance of sustainability in its initiatives. For us, sustainability represents a commitment to both the present and the future, highlighting our responsibility to promote an environmentally conscious, socially equitable, and economically viable world.
In the machine tools and industrial automation sector, we face significant challenges regarding sustainability, including carbon emissions, energy efficiency, more sustainable raw materials, waste generation, and the inclusion of professionals and technologies in the sector. However, we see these challenges as opportunities to innovate, seek efficient solutions, and promote more sustainable practices.
EXPOMAFE aims to be a platform to discuss and address these challenges, inspiring participants to adopt sustainable practices. By joining forces during events, we aim to strengthen a transformative movement in the industry, collectively building a sustainable future. We seek the commitment of each participant not only as a response to current challenges but as a collective effort to build a sustainable future.
Aiming to promote productivity, technological modernization, and innovation, EXPOMAFE brought together national and international exhibitors showcasing the latest in machines, equipment, tools, and software.
The Ideas Park content also addressed relevant issues for training and professional development in the industry.
EXPOMAFE promotes equitable access to market innovations, supporting infrastructure development. To showcase Industry 4.0 applications and their advantages, ABIMAQ presented the Industry 4.0 Technological Solutions Demonstrator. With the support of strategic companies and educational institutions, visitors can see connected machines and software in operation.
With dedicated spaces, the Intralogistics and Cargo Handling Arena and the Welding & Cutting Island brought together exhibitors from each niche, featuring the most technological solutions for the efficiency of these industrial processes.
The organization of EXPOMAFE ensures accessibility to the event by offering free van transportation from strategic points in the São Paulo Expo pavilion area. During the fair, attendees can rely on motorized chairs available for people with reduced mobility.
For visitors traveling to São Paulo, we have partnered with a travel agency that can arrange flights and accommodation with the best cost-benefit ratio.
In addition to the content programming during the event and on digital channels, ensuring that everyone has access to information, EXPOMAFE guides all its actions and those of exhibitors around responsible consumption, including efficient use of energy and natural resources, waste reduction, and encouraging reuse and recycling, as well as responsible hiring in the supply chain.
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To reduce waste generation and promote reuse and recycling, EXPOMAFE prioritizes the use of recyclable paper communications with FSC certification. Banners and the plastic bags for credentials are also intended for reuse, recycling, and proper disposal.
Exhibiting companies with sustainability actions, including those with more efficient resources or concrete socio-environmental actions, are highlighted in the event’s promotion.
For the first time, EXPOMAFE also embraces the Better Stands program, promoted globally by the Informa Group. Learn more about Better Stands and its ecological impact below.
To arrive at and leave the event, use public transportation and the free shuttle available at Santos-Imigrantes Station – Line 2-Green of the Metro, at Congonhas Airport, and at Shopping Plaza Sul. The latter point is also an alternative parking lot. Learn more about ‘How to Get There’.
Consolidate all your business trips by making the most of your time at EXPOMAFE and in the city of São Paulo.
You can save money by traveling to meet exhibitors individually or by scheduling a meeting with all of them during the event. This will help reduce your costs and carbon footprint. Consult the partner travel agency for benefits and cost optimization for travel and accommodation. Learn more on the Travel & Accommodation page.
Maintaining a healthy lifestyle can make a huge difference in your well-being and physical and mental performance, whether at the office, at home, or at an event.
Check out our tips on how to make the most of events:
Take advantage of the Well-Being Space to rest between content sessions;
It can be hard to stand all day, so wear comfortable shoes;
Free WiFi is available for all visitors, use the platform to participate in the event in a hybrid way, with more interaction, convenience, and efficiency;
Phone chargers in the Well-Being Space;
Stay hydrated throughout the event with regular breaks to drink water at hydration points - Supported by Europa water purifiers.
We want everyone to feel they belong and for our communities to feel inspired and benefit from the diverse identities, innovations, and ideas we present at EXPOMAFE.
We achieve this through:
Hiring People with Disabilities (PWD) in partnership with the PAE (Efficient Attendants Program);
Our commitment to listening to a wide variety of speakers;
Regional union caravans to attract and include more professionals from the furniture industry in the program.
Better Stands is a program by Informa Markets, the organizer of EXPOMAFE, which aims to achieve zero waste from stands by 2030. The initiative aims to encourage exhibiting companies to abandon the use of disposable (single-use) stands and prioritize the use of reusable structures.
By making their stand designs sustainable, builders and exhibitors will be recognized with Gold, Silver, and Bronze seals on their stands during the EXPOMAFE event.
Planned to be achieved by the year 2027, at this level, in addition to including all elements of the bronze level, all structural objects, front and aerial signage, ceiling, and display stands must also be reusable.
This level involves the construction of stands where the components, including walls, floors, furniture, equipment, and lighting, are 100% reusable, with the goal to be achieved at all Informa Markets events by next year.
Participation in the Better Stands program brings benefits to the entire events market, the main one being that the adoption of reusable structures will drastically reduce waste generation and consequently the environmental impact of events.
EXPOMAFE is part of Informa Markets and the Informa Group. Sustainability at Informa focuses on the long-term impacts we have on our customers, colleagues, the communities we work in, and the environment. For this reason, Informa has developed the FasterForward approach to sustainable business.
Informa’s goal is to become an increasingly sustainable and positively impactful business. Through the FasterForward program, we are embedding sustainability into everything we do and seizing opportunities to help our customers and markets do the same.
FasterForward is a three-part program with ambitious commitments and a wide range of activities, covering Informa’s business operations, our brands and products, and our broader impact on the community.
When it comes to sustainability, we are moving faster.
Informa PLC is ranked first in the global media sector in the prestigious Dow Jones Sustainability Indices 2022.
Would you like to work with us on the sustainability of our event? Would you like to share your own story and efforts? Have an idea? Contact the event team and Informa’s sustainability team for more information: institucional@informa.com
