2025 Qingdao Machine Tool Expo Draws Over 30,000 Visitors

As a professional machine tool exhibition certified by the global exhibition industry, the Qingdao International Machine Tool Exhibition is hosted by Qingdao Jinnuo International Exhibition Co., Ltd. and has been held for 27 sessions so far. The exhibition focuses on the forefront of Asia-Pacific intelligent manufacturing, comprehensively demonstrates the industry prospects and the improvement of overall innovation capabilities, and creates a trade platform integrating supply and demand matching and technical exchanges for tens of thousands of exhibitors and millions of industry users.

Why is such a large exhibition held in Qingdao year after year? Qingdao has a strong industrial foundation. Taking Jimo's automobile industry as an example, it has four major vehicle bases and gathers more than 400 core parts companies. Machine tool exhibitors can directly supply production line upgrade needs. At the same time, Qingdao has a convenient three-dimensional transportation network by sea, land and air, and the casting industry is concentrated, forming a closed loop of "main engine factory-parts-machine tool service".

Through laser cutting, a 160 mm thick steel plate can be carved in a few minutes; if the program is set for the intelligent robot, it can independently and accurately complete difficult operations... This exhibition has seven exhibition areas including Cnc Machine tools, laser processing, metal cutting, and robots. More than 1,000 well-known domestic and foreign exhibitors such as Yamazaki Mazak, Makino, Okuma, Tsugami, Hyundai Wia, Citizen, Friend, Beijing Jingdiao, Neway, and Hydeman brought the latest products and laser sheet metal, industrial automation, robots, automotive parts, medical and other industry processing application solutions to collectively appear.

"At present, the machine tool products of many domestic companies are close to the level of developed countries, but due to the late start, there is still a certain gap in product awareness compared with internationally renowned brands." The staff of the exhibitor Beijing Jingdiao Group said in an interview that in recent years, in addition to laying out the domestic market, the company has also established branches in the United States, Germany, Malaysia and other countries, and frequently participated in well-known domestic and foreign exhibitions to continuously improve product awareness.

In front of the first booth of the 2025 Qingdao International Machine Tool Exhibition, exhibitors introduced their own products to customers.

At present, China has become an important global market for the machine tool industry. The reporter learned that among the many exhibitors, there are nearly 100 foreign brands participating in the exhibition, and many of them have participated in Qingdao for many consecutive years. "The company has laid out multiple production bases in China. Not only that, we come to Jimo every year to set up exhibitions. Qingdao has become an important platform for us to show to the world." Xu Hongmin, deputy general manager of sales in China of Swiss Bystronic Group, said.

The reporter saw at the scene that many foreign merchants gathered in front of many domestic brand booths. "Our company is mainly engaged in mechanical processing. This time I was specially sent to Qingdao to attend the conference, hoping to gain more." Guo Tian, ​​a merchant from France, said that the company has been dealing with Chinese customers for many years, and for this reason he also specially gave himself a Chinese name. Guo Tian said that China's machine tool industry has evolved from the initial imitation introduction to the current independent innovation. In recent years, the industry as a whole has transformed towards high-end and intelligentization, and its international reputation has been increasing.

With the global attention to new energy and intelligent manufacturing, the demand for high-end precision parts manufacturing industry continues to grow. The demand for high-precision parts in the fields of new energy vehicles, aviation, low-altitude economy, humanoid robots, semiconductors, electronics, medical equipment, photovoltaic energy storage, wind power and engineering machinery continues to rise. Against this background, the 28th Qingdao International Machine Tool Exhibition held the 8th CJK China-Japan-Korea Intelligent Manufacturing Conference and High-Precision Parts Processing Technology and Application Conference at the same time. The conference covered high-precision bearings, gears, motors, reducers, ball screws, hydraulic systems, automated intelligent processing, laser intelligent manufacturing and applications, and more than 1,500 mechanical manufacturing engineers discussed the core technology and future development of high-precision parts processing.

This machine tool exhibition is not only a platform for displaying product technology, but also a link for industry exchanges and commercial cooperation. The "Belt and Road" Advanced Manufacturing Procurement Matchmaking Conference held at the same time, by building a "government agency + industry leader + international buyers" trinity cooperation platform, organized cross-border equipment procurement negotiations, innovation results display and high-end dialogue on capacity cooperation, accelerated the "going out" of China's high-end equipment and the docking with the global industrial upgrading needs, and created an open and shared global manufacturing cooperation platform.

In addition, the machine tool exhibition closely follows the development trend of the global manufacturing industry, seizes the demand to connect with the international market, invites more than 100 targeted buyers from the automotive, rail transit, shipbuilding and offshore engineering, aerospace, military industry, machinery manufacturing and other industries to attend, and promotes international cooperation through cross-border procurement matchmaking meetings, helping domestic enterprises to break through and go overseas.

In the interview, exhibitors said that the rapid development of technologies such as artificial intelligence, big data, and the Internet of Things has not only promoted the transformation of the machine tool industry, but also had a profound impact on the entire manufacturing industry. For example, through artificial intelligence technology, machine tools can realize functions such as automatic programming and automatic processing, which greatly improves production efficiency; through big data technology, machine tools can analyze data in the production process in real time, helping enterprises optimize production processes and improve product quality.

At present, Qingdao has included high-end CNC machine tools in the strategic emerging industries of intelligent manufacturing equipment, benchmarked the province's high-quality development action of industrial mother machines, and built the "Shandong Intelligent Manufacturing Leading Demonstration Zone" and the "Northern Intelligent Manufacturing Equipment International Cooperation Experimental Zone" based on the Qingdao Intelligent Manufacturing Equipment Industrial Park. Relying on the open platform of the SCO Demonstration Zone, the park links the global industrial chain, reduces supply chain costs, and strengthens international competitiveness.