Hannover-Messe Ankiros Fuarcilik A.Ş.

Hannover-Messe Ankiros Fuarcılık A.Ş., established in 1991, is a Turkish trade fair organizer specializing in the metallurgy industry, with a particular focus on iron and steel, non-ferrous metals, and foundries. In 2002, the company became the local partner of Hannover-Messe International, a subsidiary of Deutsche Messe AG, one of the world's largest exhibition organizers, combining its own metallurgy industry experience with Hannover Messe's global sales network. In 2024, Messe Düsseldorf and Deutsche Messe AG, the two largest German exhibition companies operating in Turkey, joined forces to expand the ANKIROS and ALUEXPO fairs, drawing on Messe Düsseldorf's international expertise from leading fairs such as GIFA, METEC, THERMPROCESS, and NEWCAST alongside Deutsche Messe's long experience in the Turkish market. The company's flagship event, ANKIROS, held biennially in Istanbul together with the co-located ANNOFER and TURKCAST fairs, has become one of the largest metallurgy and foundry industry events in Eurasia since its founding in 1992, attracting professionals from Eastern Europe, the Balkans, the Middle East, CIS countries, Central Asia, Pakistan, and India. The company also organizes ALUEXPO, a major fair dedicated to the aluminum industry.

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