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IMTEX 2027 & Tooltech 2027
IMTEX 2027 and the concurrent Tooltech 2027 run from 21 to 27 January 2027 at the Bangalore International Exhibition Centre. Organised by the Indian Machine Tool Manufacturers' Association, it is South and Southeast Asia's largest manufacturing technology exhibition, covering metal cutting machine tools alongside tooling, metrology and digital manufacturing.
Event details
Who attends
This is an engineer's show rather than a buyer's show, and that changes how leads behave. Visitors are production heads, plant engineers, tool room managers and procurement staff from automotive, aerospace, defence and general engineering firms, many travelling from Pune, Chennai, Coimbatore and the northern industrial belts. Capital equipment decisions are slow and committee-driven, so the contact you capture is usually one voice in a longer process. Recording the role and the plant alongside the name matters more here than at a consumer-facing show.
What's on the programme
- IMTEX covering metal cutting machine tools as the main exhibition
- Tooltech running concurrently for cutting tools, tooling systems and metrology
- A digital manufacturing exhibition alongside both
- Seven days, the longest run of any show in this calendar
Working the floor
- Seven days is unusually long. Plan staffing in shifts and expect the serious technical conversations mid-week rather than at the opening.
- Capital equipment enquiries need technical follow-up, often with drawings. Record what the visitor actually asked at the moment they asked it, because by Friday nobody remembers Monday.
- Visitors arrive in clusters around Bengaluru traffic, so the stand swings between quiet and overwhelming.
- Many visitors come as plant teams. Capture every member, not just the senior one: the engineer who asked the detailed question often writes the specification.
Capturing leads at IMTEX 2027 & Tooltech
Cards collected at a booth are worth nothing until they are typed up, and most never are. Karo turns a photo of a card into a CRM-ready contact inside WhatsApp or Telegram, with a voice note attached for the context you will have forgotten by the evening. Every seat on the stand captures into one shared list, tagged by event, exportable the day the hall closes.
Questions
When and where is IMTEX 2027?+
IMTEX 2027 and Tooltech 2027 run from 21 to 27 January 2027 at the Bangalore International Exhibition Centre in Bengaluru, India.
What is exhibited at IMTEX?+
IMTEX covers metal cutting machine tools, with the concurrent Tooltech exhibition covering cutting tools, tooling systems and metrology, plus a digital manufacturing exhibition. Exhibitors include Indian and international machine tool builders and automation suppliers.
Who organises IMTEX?+
IMTEX is organised by the Indian Machine Tool Manufacturers' Association and is the largest manufacturing technology exhibition in South and Southeast Asia.
How do exhibitors follow up on technical enquiries after IMTEX?+
Capture the contact and the question together at the stand. Karo attaches a transcribed voice note to each scanned card, so the engineering detail behind an enquiry survives the week and reaches whoever handles the quotation.
Details last checked against the organiser's official site on 2026-10-02. Dates and venues can change — confirm on the official site before booking travel.