Industrial trade fair in Hannover attracts over 5000 companies
The 2012 Hanover Trade Fair, the world's largest and most influential industrial technology fair and known as the barometer of the global industry, was recently held in Hannover, Germany from 23rd to 27th April, 2012. This year's Trade Fair focused on the environmental technology and industry and a total of 5,000 companies and associations from some 69 countries and regions around the world occupied a total display area of more than 172,000 square meters.