The exhibition is staged as a display zone of the Shanghai Metal World Expo (MTM Expo Shanghai).

More than 20 technical and trade conferences and forums are held alongside the 2026 edition, together with a national purchasing delegation programme.

Buyers come from the industries that finish metal parts, among them hardware and jewellery, automotive manufacturing, high-speed rail, wind power, precision machine tools, aerospace, defence, shipbuilding, mining machinery, agricultural machinery, construction machinery, lifts, motorcycles, electric vehicles and bicycles, printing and packaging machinery, textiles, moulds, electronics and household appliances, motors, power tools, medical devices, precision instruments, automation equipment, toys, sports and leisure goods, furniture, cosmetics, optics, chemicals, watches, lighting, petrochemicals, power, transport, metals, IT, communications and metallurgy. They visit as chief executives, directors, product, R&D, engineering, operations and sales managers, technicians, buyers, foremen and import and export staff, together with dealers and agents, and staff from research and design institutes, universities and other research bodies.