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Next edition: May 6-10, 2025
São Paulo Expo
Rod. dos Imigrantes - KM 1,5
Sustainability in EXPOMAFE
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.
As part of our commitment, we are focused on three pillars of sustainability:
With the aim of increasing the number of young people and adults with relevant skills for the job market, including technical and professional competencies, EXPOMAFE offers opportunities for improvement and training through lectures, demonstrations, and networking with specialists. EXPOMAFE promotes the educational development of the public entering the industrial job market, including the encouragement of caravans from educational institutions to expand access to the fair and its educational content.
Focusing on education, highlights include:
- The Voice of Industry Stage: A content and lecture space with topics on industry and sustainability, energy, intralogistics, robotics, and more related themes.
- Thematic Stand: This attraction features strategic partners detailing some technological advancements made possible by machine tools and industrial automation. The space includes product displays and specialist consultations.
- Hackathon: In partnership with ACATE (Santa Catarina Technology Association), EXPOMAFE 2025 will feature a hackathon for the first time, bringing together startups and young professionals with solutions for Industry 4.0. More information coming soon.
- SENAI Mobile School: Demonstrations and practical experiences in an interactive attraction with cutting-edge scientific equipment and informative materials, supervised by SENAI technicians and teachers.
Aiming to promote productivity, technological modernization, and innovation, EXPOMAFE brings together national and international exhibitors showcasing the latest in machines, equipment, tools, and software.
The content of the Ideas Park also addresses relevant issues for the training and development of professionals for the industry.
EXPOMAFE promotes equitable access to market innovations, supporting infrastructure development. To showcase Industry 4.0 applications and their advantages, ABIMAQ presents the Industry 4.0 Technology Solutions Demonstrator. With the support of strategic companies and educational institutions, visitors can see connected and operating machines and software.
With dedicated spaces, the Intralogistics and Cargo Handling Arena and the Welding & Cutting Island will bring together exhibitors from each niche, showcasing the latest technology 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. To ensure the accessibility of our content and the inclusion of the audience, the Voice of Industry Stage will feature a Libras interpreter in all presentations.
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.
To follow EXPOMAFE content, check out:
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.
Reduction of printed materials, ensuring they are FSC certified;
Interactive map available on the Industry Xperience Platform;
Use of LED lighting in the pavilion and Informa spaces, and optimization of air conditioning usage to reduce energy consumption;
Selective collection and environmentally correct disposal of all waste generated at the event;
Service Areas (Exhibitor Support, Registration, and VIP Club) set up with modular and reusable structures;
- Vegan and vegetarian food options at the event’s restaurants and snack bars;
- At the event exit, a designated area is available for the conscious disposal of credentials, which will be reused in future events.
Hiring People with Disabilities (PWD) in partnership with the PAE program (Efficient Attendant Program);
Motorized chairs are provided for accessibility at the event;
Free vans for transportation from strategic points, as well as alternative parking that also includes vans for transport to the pavilion.
Sustainability Highlights
We emphasize that EXPOMAFE addresses sustainability-related topics throughout the year, promoting relevant content for the event audience and on its digital channels.
Check out some highlights from 2024:
O que são os ODS - Objetivos de Desenvolvimento Sustentável?
Mulheres na indústria: trajetórias de sucesso
[Ebook] Segurança do Trabalhador na indústria
Entenda a relação entre ESG e a ISO 9001
7 tendências para ter um futuro sustentável no setor industrial
By exploring the themes of environmental, social, and corporate governance sustainability, we drive the entire furniture sector towards more sustainable practices. This approach reflects a commitment not only to the present but also to the legacy for future generations.
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.
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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.
Designed for 2030, the final level incorporates all elements of the Bronze and Silver levels, adding graphics, decorative items, and floor coverings to ensure zero waste generation.
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.
Help improve the sustainability of EXPOMAFE
As a visitor
- Consider how you will get to the event and whether you can avoid air travel or use low-carbon transportation, such as public transport, free shuttles, or carpooling;
- Recycle your waste on-site and at your hotel whenever possible;
- Consider opting for vegetarian and vegan food options and avoid food waste;
- Take only the giveaways or brochures you need and will use, consider if there are digital alternatives;
- Consider the environmental credentials of the hotel when deciding where to stay. Get to know the official travel agency of EXPOMAFE.
As an exhibitos
- As an exhibitor Ensure that your stand can be reused by your company or by your contracted builder (Better Stands Program);
- Think about the waste your stand will generate and try to minimize it as much as possible. Ensure that unavoidable waste is recycled;
- Select LED lighting and other energy-efficient equipment for your stand and make sure to turn off your equipment at the end of the day;
- Optimize your travel by consolidating your shipments and choosing logistics companies with strong sustainability credentials;
- Reduce paper distributions by going digital and purchase sustainably certified paper where printing is necessary;
- Engage in the numerous initiatives and conversations throughout the event that aim to help facilitate and inspire the sustainable development of your sector;
- Inspire the sustainable development of your sector by promoting your company and the sustainability credentials of your products and services.
Sustentability at Informa Markets
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.
Contact us and share your story
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: [email protected]
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