ITALY – The 27th edition of Xylexpo, the biennial international exhibition of technology for the wood and furniture industry, closed last Saturday, October 15 in Milan.

Xylexpo 2022 was attended by more than 16 thousand unique visitors, a figure that reaches up to over 22 thousand visits if you consider that a single visitor came back several times over four days. 

Out of 16 thousand unique visitors, at least 4 thousand came in from Viscom Italia and most of all from 33.Bimu which were held concurrently with Xylexpo.

Xylexpo is probably the only post-pandemic exhibition that has achieved a number of unique visitors in line with the last pre-Covid event in 2018.

The share of international visitors decreased by a few percent points (from 28 percent in 2018 to 25 percent in 2022), in line with the expectations of organizers due to the closure of markets like China, Russia and Ukraine, traditionally interested in Italian technology.