Name of Show: IMTS 2008 - International Manufacturing Technology Show
Show Sponsor: AMT-The Association For Manufacturing Technology
Show Dates: September 8-13, 2008
Show Location: McCormick Place, Chicago, IL USA
IMTS 2008 is the 27th edition of the premier manufacturing technology show in North America. More than 1,500 exhibiting companies will occupy 1.2 million net square feet of exhibit space at the McCormick Place complex in Chicago, Illinois. IMTS is held every even-numbered year in Chicago and attracts more than 91,000 buyers and sellers from 119 countries.
To help guide attendees to booths quickly and easily, we organize exhibits in Pavilions that are geared toward specific industries, technologies and solutions. Following is the list of Pavilions: Abrasive Machining/Sawing/Finishing; Controls & CAD/CAM; EDM; Gear Generation; Machine Components/Cleaning/Environmental; Metal Cutting; Metal Forming & Fabricating/Lasers; Quality Assurance; and Tooling and Workholding Systems.
Manufacturing industry professionals from the United States and from over 119 countries from around the world attend IMTS. They attend to see more than 15,000 new machine tools, controls, computers, software, components, systems and processes that can improve their efficiency. They will also gain valuable ideas and insights from over 1,500 of the worlds leading equipment producers. They come to look and they come to buy.
Over 1,500 exhibitors from the metalworking industry will display their products and productivity solutions at McCormick Place in Chicago covering 1.2 million net square foot of show floor. Leading manufacturers will display their equipment in the following product category pavilions: Metal Cutting: Contains everything from machining centers and assembly automation to Flexible Manufacturing Systems and lathes. Tooling & Work holding Systems: Features jigs, fixtures, cutting tools of all types and related accessories. Metal Forming & Fabricating/Laser: Home to all type of presses as well as laser systems, coil and strip handling equipment, heat treating and more.
Other pavilions at IMTS include Abrasive Machining /Sawing/Finishing; Controls & CAD –CAM; EDM; Gear Generation; Machine Components/ Cleaning/ Environmental and Quality Assurance.
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