12 to 13 November 2025, Karlsruhe Exhibition Centre, Germany

Never before has the industry experienced such rapid change. This is also impacting the demands placed upon technical trade fairs. As a result, DeburringEXPO will no longer be held as a stand-alone event, and instead will be incorporated into the new PARTS FINISHING trade fair. It combines the topics of deburring technologies, component cleaning and surface finishing in a two-day event, which will take place for the first at the Karlsruhe Exhibition Centre on the 12th and 13th of November, 2025.

Megatrends such as the mobility and energy transitions, demographic change and digitalisation are posing new economic and social challenges, but are also generating new opportunities. They necessitate new products and customised production strategies from manufacturing companies – all the way down to the sub-supplier level. These changes are affecting the trade fair landscape as well. “After many discussions with exhibitors at DeburringEXPO and an in-depth analysis of how various trade fairs are developing, we’ve decided to stop holding the trade fair for deburring technologies as an independent event,” reports Hartmut Herdin, managing director of private trade fair promoters fairXperts GmbH & Co. KG. “In the future, the subject of deburring technologies will be brought together with the fields of component cleaning and surface finishing at the new, two-day PARTS FINISHING trade fair.” Surface finishing includes the process steps of fine and ultra-fine grinding, polishing, honing, lapping, vibratory grinding, blasting and brushing. The trade fair will be held once every two years – in the even numbered years – at the Karlsruhe Exhibition Centre, for the first time on the 12th and 13th of November, 2025.
By bundling these three important areas, all of which are crucial to quality in parts production, and by holding the trade fair for a duration of two days, the promoters are responding to the requirements and expectations of the market. “More and more companies are scrutinising the cost-benefit ratio of traditional trade fair participation,” reports Hartmut Herdin. “For example, considerable booth space is required in order to exhibit machines, which drives the costs up. But nowadays, capabilities and expertise can also be demonstrated digitally very well.” These considerations have been incorporated into the trade fair concept for PARTS FINISHING. On the one hand, it makes it possible for persons responsible for parts production to gather concentrated information concerning solutions, and it promotes a dialogue between users and exhibitors in the interdisciplinary development of solutions for special applications. On the other hand, shortening the trade fair to two days reduces travel, accommodation and personnel costs. “This aspect is supported by top-quality, turnkey and individualised booth packages offered at fixed costs that save time, money and resources right from the trade fair preparation stage,” adds the trade fair promoter.
And thus the PARTS FINISHING concept is specifically geared to the actual motivation for trade fair participation: the establishment and maintenance of relations between users and suppliers, as well as the creation and consolidation of networks amongst exhibitors. “The latter makes it possible to enter into strategic partnerships and tackle new projects together as a system supplier,” notes Hartmut Herdin.