The International Engineering Fair (MSV 2018) is the most important industrial fair in Central Europe with an annual attendance of more than 1 600 exhibitors and 80 000 visitors. More than 50% of exhibitors and 10% of visitors arrive from abroad. Ninety-eight percent of exhibitors have established contacts with potential domestic or foreign customers.

Visitors are mostly highly skilled, with 79% of visitors deciding or co-deciding on investing and buying, a third of them belong to top management. More than half of the visitors see the main contribution of the fair in the presented novelties, new technology and contacts.