Over 300 exhibitors showcasing their products and services to more than 10,000 visitors across four days was the highlight of the IMTEX, 2014, the international forming technology exhibition that concluded at Bangalore on January 28. The USP of the show, termed as IMTEX Forming 2014, was its focus and the exhaustive range of forming technologies in all engineering applications.

It was a greatly expanded exhibition that included all forming technologies in metals, plastics, ceramics, composites and exotic materials the manifestation of which had one objective—to enable manufacturing excellence through world-class productivity and cost-competitiveness.

The show also laid the latest developments in machine equipment, processes, tools, accessories, software and raw materials besides feed stocks required to manufacture formed parts in diverse engineering applications.

According to the organisers, the forming technology is an integral part of manufacturing in various industries and has contributed in the development of many new processing technologies, processing methods, machineries, tools and solutions to design and fabricate end products/finished goods. Apart from this, the organisers also held ‘Tooltech 2014’, the 16th edition of which displayed metal working tools, tooling systems, machine tool accessories, metrology and CAD/CAM at the same venue. The event featured innovations in tooling technologies for precision finish as well as cost competitiveness in all metal working operations.

The exhibitors in the IMTEX Forming 2014 included those engaged in business of presses, presses for special applications, sheet metal cutting machines, sheet metal blanking, punching machines, sheet metal forming machines, sheet metal working cells and systems, die casting, forging, extrusion, metal spinning and flow forming, rolling, wire forming machines, bar, section and tube working machines, heat treatment & hardening, machines for the production of bolts, nuts, screws and rivets, joining & welding, robotics and manufacturing automation, specialised metal forming, processes & machines, machinery & plant for processing plastics, machines & equipment for pre-processing, recycling plastics, post processing machines for plastics and follow-on equipment for plastics

Apart from this, the organisers also provided an opportunity to the Indian academic/R&D institutions to showcase their R&D capabilities in metal working field. This participation was through display of two posters from each institution and was aimed at giving the students of the institutions as well as manufacturers a glimpse of facilities available at these institutions in an effort to produce future engineers or manufacturers.

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