ASTRON/DOME at the Hannover Messe 2015

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Last week, the world's most important industrial fair, the Hannover Messe, took place, and of course ASTRON was attending. This year, one of the central themes is R&D. On 14 April, ASTRON and IBM presented an update on the DOME Microserver, as part of the Region of Smart Factories (RoSF). On the photo you see Gert Kruithof presenting the Microserver.

ASTRON attended the Hannover Messe for the whole week. Our stand was visited very well. The ASTRON stand was part of the Holland High Tech House. Visitors of the ASTRON stand got inspired by Dutch technology!

Dutch minster of Economic Affairs, Henk Kamp, visited the Hannover Messe. As part of his visit he visited the Holland High Tech House and the Region of Smart Factories. Minister Kamp was very interested in all the technologies that are being developed by the NWO institutes.

Minister Kamp was accompanied by Amandus Lundqvist, figurehead of Hightech Systemen en Materialen(HTSM), Marc Hendrikse (HTSM), Jasper Wesseling, director of innovation and knowledge of Economic Affairs.

HANNOVER MESSE: Get new technology first!

The world's leading trade fair for industrial technology is staged annually in Hannover, Germany. It ran from 13 to 17 April 2015 and feature India as its official Partner Country. The central themes this year were Industrial Automation and IT, Power Transmission and Control, Energy and Environmental Technologies, Industrial Subcontracting, Production Engineering and Services and Research & Development.