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.

Nanotechnology is increasingly considered as the quintessential technology of the future, offering immense potential applications. But nanotechnology has not yet moved in all disciplines from the research laboratory to the world of industry. NanoEurope provides a platform enabling members of the research community and industry to meet.

Exhibitors from different fields of technology and research will present their products and solutions in three key visitor industries:

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.

Motek, the international trade fair for assembly and handling technology, takes place annually. The 2006 edition was the last one held in Sinsheim; the 2007 show was the first one held at the new trade fair centre in Stuttgart, resulting in a 30% increase in visitors.

Motek is renowned all over Europe as global platform for procurement and the exchange of information, and it has established itself in recent years as an attractive leading fair in its industry sector. This has a lot to do with the fact that Stuttgart is located in the center of Europe's economically strongest industrial region — an area that accounts for the lion's share of Europe's turnover in the fields of assembly, robotics, and handling systems.

With 30,076 registered trade visitors, Motek 2003 experienced a growth rate of 8% compared to the previous year's event. Around 15% of Motek visitors came to Sinsheim from foreign countries. Also, 804 registered exhibitors and 93 additionally represented companies from 17 different countries participated. These figures again establish Motek as Europe's leading trade fair for assembly and handling technology.

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.

Plastukraina is an export version of Plastpol, the Polish trade for the plastics industry. The 2007 edition of Plastukraina attracted nearly 100 exhibitors from eight countries, and the exhibition was accompanied by scientific conferences.

In 2008, the range of products and services to be exhibited will include processing technologies, equipment used in the plastics processing sector, packaging systems, design, plastics, recycling. Year by year, the plastics processing sector strengthens its position and significance in the Ukraine, which has been enjoying continuous economic growth for eight years in a row.

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.

This trade event, considered India’s premier automation fair, showcases new innovations and solutions in industrial sectors such as factory automation, process automation, instrumentation and controls, robotics, power plant automation, drives automation, bus and wireless technology, building automation, pumps and valves, hydraulic and pneumatics, and automation in machine tools.

The Congress and Exhibition will bring together an international audience of key industry and academia from throughout the powder metallurgy industry.

Interplas is the established exhibition brand in the UK, fully endorsed and supported by the UK Plastics and Rubber industry. A triennial event, Interplas is the showcase for all the elements of the polymer industry — design, materials, production, machinery, testing and quality control.

Interplas visitors come to the show to find a competitive advantage in the form of innovation, new ideas or products. Sourcing and buying everything they need to cost effectively design, manufacture, control and test plastic and rubber products, visitors to the show are able to make meaningful comparisons of working machinery and equipment. Meeting with suppliers, peers and experts they aim to maximise their efficiency and maintain their position in a challenging market.

Held every other year, BI-MU is Italy’s largest trade fair for machine tools, automation robots and auxiliary products (NC, tools, components and accessories). It is held in conjunction with the simultaneous Sfortec show, a technical subcontracting exhibition.

BI-MU will showcase the latest offerings for components and structural processing; specialist events focusing on solutions in welding, assembly and dies; an extensive conference programme; and initiatives designed to highlight job opportunities for young people in the manufacturing sector.