Machine age

摘要

The UK's largest manufacturing technologies event, MACH, returns to the National Exhibition Centre from 7-11 April after achieving visitor numbers of 21,500 at the previous show in 2012. As usual, a wide range of companies will be using the show as their shop window, from household names such as Rolls-Royce and Airbus - OEMs, which, for the first time, are exhibiting alongside their supply-chain partners - to smaller companies making their first appearance at the show. 'They're all key exhibitors to us,' says show organiser Graham Dewhurst, director-general of the Machine Tool Association (MTA), which runs MACH. 'All 570 exhibitors have paid to be there and they're all expecting a relative payback. We do have our long-term large stands, but to focus on those does the other exhibitors an iniustice.'