Worldwide, India ranks 19th in production and 16th in consumption of machine tools. While exports have been on the rise, imports have seen phenomenal growth as well. Over the span of just a few years, between 2004-05 and 2006-07, imports have grown from INR 18 billion (about €324 million) to INR 28 million (over €500 million). With more and more multinationals setting up their production units in India, the sector is set to witness exponential growth.

Against this backdrop, IMTOS has been conceived to showcase the best from around the world in India. From the latest trends to solutions, knowledge-sharing to vendor development, networking opportunities to subcontracting; the possibilities are immense.

Euro ID sees itself as a living platform that brings together providers and decision makers from every sector of the automatic-identification industry. Exhibitors and sponsors will have an opportunity to make high-quality contacts with their specific target groups via multifaceted marketing channels. By combining the exhibition with a series of science forums and live events, Euro ID has become THE meeting point for the European auto ID industry.

Since 1979, EASTEC has been the U.S. East Coast’s only event bringing together buyers and sellers of machine tools and metalworking technologies. This face-to-face interaction lets attendees develop a network of companies they can count on to help them meet production challenges. Exhibitors can establish long-term relationships with new customers from diverse industries.

Held every other year in the French-speaking part of Switzerland. SIAMS stands for “Salon des Industries de l'Automation, de la Machine-outils et de la Sous-traitance” (Trade Fair for Automation, Machine Tools and Subcontracting).

In the last few years, PLASTPOL has been embraced by major firms in the trade. The show covers processing machinery and equipment, moulds and tools used in the trade, plastics, components, packaging, recycling technologies, and the use of computer systems for plastics processing.

Mach-Tool Poland is an integral part of ITM Poland, the largest annual exhibition in Central Europe of modern industrial technologies, bringing together nearly 1,400 exhibiting companies from dozens of countries in a display space of over 30,000 m².

Mach-Tool Poland focuses especially on machine tools, CNC machine tools machines for plastics processing, and CAD/CAM software and related technologies. It also offers a rich accompanying programme of events, including dozens of specialist conferences and seminars, numerous international business meetings, and many workshops and presentations in special demonstration areas.

Medical Moulding and Extrusion 2008 is the 2nd international conference on medical device manufacturing and materials from Applied Market Information Ltd. Registration and a reception on the first evening will be followed by a 2-day programme of papers from international medical specialists.

Formerly known as GIMT (the annual Guanghzhou International Machine Tool trade fair), this major event will present itself in 2008 as the Canton Machine Tool Fair. As the successor to the well-known GIMT+AMB China fair, this event will be the meeting point for the entire machine tool industry in South China.

The province of Guangdong (Canton), with its capital city Guangzhou, is the manufacturing hub of China, where state-of-the-art technologies are already widely used. As exhibitions always follow industry trends and needs, the organizers of the past GIMT+AMB shows have determined that it is time to take the concept to an advanced level—just as it already exists in Hannover, Milan, Tokyo, Chicago, and other advanced industry regions—and the Canton Machine Tool Fair 2008 will be the result.

EASTPO has been held successfully for 9 years running, and plays an important role in introducing up-to-date technologies, speeding up the internationalization of native machine tool manufacturers, and promoting the development of China’s machinery manufacturing industries.

Organized by the Association for Manufacturing Technology (AMT), the International Manufacturing Technology Show is one of the largest industrial trade shows in the world, with thousands of exhibitors and over 85,000 visitors. The event is held every two years in September at McCormick Place, Chicago.

Metal-cutting machine tools, physico-chemical process machine tools, other machines, precision tools, metrology and quality assurance, robots, workpiece and tool handling, software, computer systems and peripherals-parts, components and accessories, services, organisation, publishers.

Taipei Plas, organized by the Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA) and the Taiwan Association of Machinery Industry (TAMI), offers a complete overview of the plastics and rubber trade, including exhibits of plastic & rubber processing machinery, injection molding machinery, blow molding machinery as well as components, semi-finished and finished products and raw materials.

Euro-uRapid offers a “state-of-the-industry” overview of today’s best practices and concepts in rapid prototyping, rapid tooling, and rapid manufacturing across different industrial application areas. The main focus lies on the newest application solutions for rapid tooling and rapid manufacturing for polymers, metals and ceramics for single and small-series lots.

This two-day conference, which is conducted in English and German, is organized by Fraunhofer-Allianz Rapid Prototyping, Germany.

Aluminium 2008 will showcase innovative solutions and the latest technological developments for aluminium and its applications, as well as new fields where aluminium can be used.

The trade fair will focus on raw materials, semifinished and finished aluminium products, machinery, plant equipment and services for the manufacturers and suppliers of primary and secondary aluminium, and semifinished and finished products.

The show in Essen will be complemented by one of the industry’s leading conferences in this sector. In parallel to Aluminium 2008, the International Conference on Aluminium Alloys (ICAA) will take place for the 11th time in Aachen, Germany.

First held in 1968 and continuing every other year since then, Micronora brings together in a single location complementary mixed-technology fields in the area of microtechnology. These include micromechanical engineering, microelectronics, interfacing, microconnectors, microactuators, microsensors, electronic circuits, and microsystems, as well as automation, research and development, machine tools, measuring instruments and systems, and robotics.

The 2006 show attracted 990 exhibiting companies, of which 35% were from outside of France, and 15,272 visitors.