Metav reloaded becomes Metav digital Event Update Metav reloaded becomes Metav digital 10.12.2020Editor: Steffen Donath Related Company (Source: Chris Montgomery (Unsplash)) “If anything good has come out of this difficult time, it is the stimulation of creativity,” stated Dr Wilfried Schäfer, Executive Director of the VDW, (German Machine Tool Builders’ Association) at the Metav 2020 reloaded Preview on 10 December 2020. The press conference was originally intended to pave the way for the Metav 2020 reloaded fair next March. But the trade fair has now been completely reinvented as “Metav digital”. It will be held from 23 to 26 March 2021. “Out of concern for our exhibitors, who need certainty for their planning, and bearing in mind the health of all those involved, we made the decision last week to cancel Metav 2020 reloaded as a face-to-face get-together and to replace it with a purely digital event,” said Schäfer, explaining the new concept. “Given the stubbornly high infection figures issued by the Robert Koch Institute, and the fact that Messe Düsseldorf has cancelled all events in the first quarter of 2021, this was the only sensible option,” he pointed out.