JEC World 2025 at a glance

More than 1,350 exhibitors are expected at this year’s JEC World event. Finalists in the Startup Booster competition will also be found on the show floor (pictured in the front left walled-in area of this photo from JEC World 2024). Source (All Images) | CW

This year marks the 60^th anniversary of the JEC World trade show, which is set to take place March 4-6, 2025, at the Paris-Nord Villepinte in Paris, France. As in years past, attendees can look forward to the latest composite materials and process technology, networking with professionals across the global composites industry and opportunities to attend a variety of educational conference sessions.

The world’s largest composites industry trade event is expected to feature more than 1,350 exhibitors showcasing more than 600 new products and innovations. The theme for JEC World 2025 is “Pushing the Limits,” which organizer JEC Group (Paris) hopes to do with an anticipated record attendance of 45,000 visitors from more than 100 countries.

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Attendees can find technology in action in the Live Demo Area.

In addition to exhibitors on the show floor, the event also features two Innovation Planets presenting parts from companies and R&D centers on the latest in Mobility and Industry. JEC World 2025 will also include an expanded version of last year’s inaugural Live Demonstration Area on the show floor, sponsored by Aerovac Composites One (Keighley, U.K. and Schaumburg, Ill., U.S.), Magnum Venus Products (Knoxville, Tenn., U.S.) and Thermwood (Dale, Ind., U.S.). Visitors will have the chance to see exhibitors demonstrating various new technologies firsthand throughout the show.

Attendees can also visit areas dedicated to Innovation Award and Startup Booster competition finalists. From a pool of 33 Innovation Award finalists over 11 categories, the award winners, selected by a panel of industry judges, were announced via the JEC World 2025 Premiere event on Jan. 13 in Paris and online.

The JEC Composites Startup Booster competition is open to entrepreneurs, SMEs, startups and academic spinoffs, and is reported to have supported more than 1,100 projects from more than 60 countries since its start in 2017. The 20 startup finalists selected to participate in this year’s event were announced at the JEC World 2025 Premiere, and the winners will be announced during the show itself on March 5. 

Conference sessions and panels cover topics like sustainability, AI, automation and more. Depicted here was a session on sensors from JEC World 2022.

Beyond the exhibit hall, the show also presents opportunities to learn from speakers and panels comprising subject matter experts on topics like AI, hydrogen storage, high-volume aerospace manufacturing and various aspects of sustainability.

Conference programming will take place in the Agora stages in both Hall 5 and 6 each day of the show — including a panel on “Implementing AI along the Composites Value Chain” moderated by CW senior technical editor Ginger Gardiner on March 6 at 12 p.m. in Agora 5.

This year, JEC has also teamed up with the Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering (SAMPE, Diamond Bar, Calif., U.S.) to provide new SAMPE Techncial Sessions to take place on March 5 in the Open Stage in Hall 6. As part of this arrangement, JEC World will also host the final of SAMPE Europe’s “Young Engineers Challenge” for the first time. For full conference program information, visit www.jec-world.events/program.

Find registration information for this year’s show at www.jec-world.events/visit/badge. If you need a refresher on last year’s event, revisit JEC World 2024 with the CW editors’ post-show highlights.