Cable and pipe manufacturing rarely share a trade show floor, but Düsseldorf has run wire and Tube as twin co-located exhibitions for decades, and the pairing has proven durable enough that the two shows now report combined figures rather than separate ones. The 2026 edition runs April 13 to 17 at the Düsseldorf exhibition grounds, with the previous combined edition drawing 2,700 exhibitors from 65 countries across 120,000 square metres.

Why Tube and Wire Share a Roof

Messe Düsseldorf organises both shows under one roof because the manufacturing processes behind cable production and tube and pipe production overlap more than the end products suggest — both rely on metal-forming, drawing, and extrusion technology, and many machinery suppliers serve both industries from the same product catalogue. Tube's relevance to hydraulic component suppliers comes specifically through pipe and tubing technology, since hydraulic systems depend on precision tubing as a core input.

The International Wire and Machinery Association has backed the wire side of the show for years, giving it a level of institutional continuity similar to what VDMA provides for Hannover Messe's MDA hall.

What's Relevant to Hydraulic Suppliers

Within the Tube exhibition specifically, hydraulic tubing, precision tube manufacturing technology, and pipe-processing machinery sit alongside the broader tube and pipe product categories. Component manufacturers whose products depend on high-precision tubing — hydraulic cylinder and hose manufacturers among them — will find suppliers of the raw tubing and processing equipment that feed their own production lines.

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Why Hydraulic Component Makers Attend

For hydraulic cylinder and hose manufacturers, Tube Düsseldorf functions less as a customer-facing show and more as a supply-chain one — a place to source the precision tubing and tube-processing machinery that goes into their own products, rather than to sell finished hydraulic systems to end users.

The show's scale and European footing also make it a reasonable venue for evaluating new tubing suppliers outside a company's existing regional network, particularly for manufacturers looking to diversify sourcing beyond long-standing domestic relationships.