Exhibitions

The efforts of Indian Machine Tool Manufacturers’ Association (IMTMA) from its inception up to 1969 culminated in the All India Machine Tool Exhibition, which will go on to become its flagship IMTEX, the largest machine tool and manufacturing technology exhibition in South East Asia. The successful editions of IMTEX demanded an international quality venue not just for the live display of machines but for every other aspect associated with it. This led to the setting up of IMTMA-Naoroji Pirojsha Godrej International Exhibition & Conference Complex, popularly known as Bangalore International Exhibition Centre (BIEC) in 2007 at Bengaluru.

From 2007 onwards, IMTMA has been organizing IMTEX and numerous other trade fairs and corporate events at BIEC. Once a combined show, IMTEX was split into two, with the first exhibition focusing on metal cutting technologies being held in 2009, and the very next year (2010), for the first exhibition on metal forming technologies. IMTMA, every odd and even year, organizes IMTEX and IMTEX FORMING with Tooltech and Digital Manufacturing as concurrent shows.

In its efforts to bring technologies to the doorsteps of various manufacturing industries, IMTMA organizes regional machine tool expos. Expos are held in Delhi (Delhi Machine Tool Expo) and Pune (Pune Machine Tool Expo). Factory Equipment Expo is held as a concurrent exhibition in these cities. Also, IMTMA organizes the MTX-Connect series of exhibitions to help the machine tool industry present its manufacturing solutions in industrial belts of various regions of India.