Machine Tools & Metalworking

MetalForm China 2027

中国国际金属成形展览会

Dates
UPCOMING
28 Jun – 1 Jul 2027
Venue
National Exhibition and Convention Center (Shanghai)
Exhibition area (2026)
26,000 m²
Exhibitors (2026)
337

About the show

MetalForm China is a trade exhibition for the metalforming industry in China, covering forging, stamping and sheet metal fabrication together with the upstream and downstream businesses that serve them. It gathers equipment builders, component producers, tooling and welding suppliers and end users along a single production chain that runs from raw materials and process machinery through dies, joining and inspection to automation and intelligent manufacturing.

Alongside EuroBLECH, FABTECH and LAMIERA, MetalForm China ranks among the leading sheet metal working exhibitions worldwide. Dies, joining and welding hold their own sections beside forming equipment, so the show reaches the whole chain that automotive, construction-machinery, rail-transit, aerospace, shipbuilding and appliance manufacturers draw on.

What’s on display

Components

  • Forged parts for passenger cars and new energy vehicles, commercial vehicles, construction machinery, rail transit, mining and metallurgical equipment
  • Forged parts for power and energy equipment, petrochemical equipment, machine tools and general machinery
  • Forged parts for aerospace, defence, shipbuilding and marine equipment
  • Aluminium, copper and titanium alloy forgings; high-strength and non-quenched-and-tempered steel forgings
  • Radial forgings; cross-wedge rolled and rotary-swaged parts
  • Stamped parts for passenger cars, new energy vehicles, commercial vehicles, home appliances, electrical and electronic components
  • Stamped parts for construction machinery, rail transit, aerospace, energy and power equipment, light industry, packaging, textile and printing machinery
  • Fine-blanked and high-precision stamped parts; rotary-swaged, internal high-pressure formed, multi-point formed and hydroformed parts; stamped heads
  • Sheet metal parts for passenger cars, new energy vehicles, commercial vehicles, home appliances and electrical and electronic components
  • Sheet metal parts for rail transit, aerospace, energy and power equipment, machine tools, ships and marine equipment
  • Enclosures and cabinets; rolled tubes; stainless steel products; batteries; airport, station and terminal equipment; supermarket equipment; ETC systems

Forging equipment and technology

  • Hot-die, mechanical, cold and warm forging presses; screw and servo forging presses; hydraulic presses
  • Hydraulic extrusion presses; multi-directional die forging presses; isothermal forging presses; liquid die forging presses
  • Gravity drop hammers, belt hammers and board hammers; air, fully hydraulic and liquid-gas hammers; counter-blow hammers
  • Cold headers and high-speed hot and cold headers; ring rolling, rotary forging, cross-wedge rolling and radial forging machines
  • Upsetters, roll forging machines, cross-rolling and skew rolling machines, electric upsetters and thread rolling machines
  • Drawing equipment; spring forming equipment; additive manufacturing and 3D printing
  • Bar shears, band saws and high-speed circular saws; trimming, coining and straightening presses
  • Flame cutting for forging; medium-frequency induction heating and feeding equipment; post-forging cooling and descaling equipment
  • Quick die change systems and walking beam feeders; shot blasting and stress relief equipment; forging manipulators, robots and transfer systems
  • Normalising, annealing, quenching and tempering equipment; quenching machines; hydraulic systems and equipment foundations
  • Industrial furnaces and kilns for forging and heat treatment; burners, thermocouples and refractories; furnace control and energy-saving equipment
  • Metallographic and scanning electron microscopes; mechanical testing and hardness testing machines; dimension inspection equipment and automated inspection lines
  • Dye penetrant and fluorescent magnetic particle inspection equipment; ultrasonic and magnetic flaw detectors; X-ray, gamma-ray and isotope inspection; fatigue and creep testing machines; coordinate measuring equipment and callipers

Stamping equipment and technology

  • Open-back inclinable and fixed-frame mechanical presses; C-frame single and double point presses
  • Straight-sided single, double, three and four point presses; knuckle-joint presses; single and double action presses
  • Open and straight-sided high-speed and ultra-high-speed precision presses; fine blanking and deep drawing presses
  • High-speed precision stamping lines; air-conditioner fin high-speed automatic stamping lines; progressive die stamping lines
  • Multi-station automatic stamping lines; can-making presses; single-arm and double-arm high-speed flexible stamping lines
  • Hot stamping equipment and heating systems; composite material forming presses
  • Hydraulic presses for blanking, drawing, straightening and press-fitting: single-column, double-column, gantry and four-column types
  • Fine blanking and precision blanking hydraulic presses; edge trimming and metal baling hydraulic presses
  • Automotive beam, metal coining, axle press-fitting and die try-out hydraulic presses; door hemming and interior part forming hydraulic presses
  • Cold and hot isostatic pressing presses; internal high-pressure forming presses; high-strength steel hot forming presses
  • CNC servo hydraulic presses; steel wire wound presses; hydro-mechanical deep drawing presses
  • Skin stretch forming machines; rubber pad forming, incremental forming, electromagnetic forming and multi-point forming equipment
  • Spinning machines for conventional, two-roller and three-roller thinning, head spinning, heating spin flanging and wheel rim forming
  • Roll forming machines and lines; bending and folding presses; tube end forming machines
  • Uncoiling and slitting lines; cut-to-length and flying shear lines; blanking lines; levelling presses and lines
  • Automated storage systems for stampings, sheets and dies; shot blasting and trimming machines; cleaning and grinding equipment for stampings
  • High-speed stamping feeding systems

Sheet metal fabrication equipment and technology

  • Profile bending and rolling machines; press brakes; plate rolling machines for cold and hot forming
  • CNC turret punch presses; automatic notching machines; CNC hydraulic punching and shearing combined machines
  • Laser cutting and forming combined machines; flexible manufacturing cells and systems for sheet metal processing
  • Shearing machines; stretch forming and stretch bending machines; profile and tube drilling machines; end forming machines
  • Tube benders and bending cells; tube end forming machines; spring forming equipment; multi-edge bending centres
  • Laser and plasma cutting machines; flame cutting equipment; waterjet cutting systems
  • Abrasive-wheel cutting machines and sheet metal shears; profile and tube shearing machines; laser tube cutting machines
  • Mechanical, chemical and electrolytic surface treatment; degreasing, dip coating, cleaning, evaporation, brushing and drying equipment
  • Lubrication, corrosion protection, etching, electrolytic surface treatment, galvanising, tinning and electrophoretic treatment
  • Belt grinding machines; polishing, grinding and shot blasting equipment
  • Electrostatic powder and paint spraying; flame and laser spraying; electroplating and sinter coating equipment; powder recovery equipment
  • Diffusion and diffusion annealing; deburring, edge rounding, brushing, grinding, polishing and dross removal equipment

Dies and tooling

  • Hot forging dies, including open-die and impression-die forging; warm and cold forging dies
  • Extrusion, drawing, sizing, coining and forging spinning dies; forging trimming dies; roll forging and cross-wedge rolling dies; die holders
  • Multi-station and progressive dies; spinning and coining dies
  • Blanking, cropping, trimming, forming and bending dies; drawing and deep drawing dies
  • Internal high-pressure forming and hot stamping dies; covering panel, heavy plate and high-speed stamping dies
  • Cutting heads; CNC punching dies; bending tools and dies; roll forming dies
  • Die repair, machining, lubrication and cooling equipment and technology; die inspection and testing equipment
  • Die surface treatment equipment and technology; die standard parts

Joining and welding

  • Arc welding machines; submerged arc welding machines; MIG/MAG/TIG welding machines; gouging equipment
  • Resistance welding equipment; spot, projection and seam welders; flash butt welders; high-frequency resistance welding equipment
  • High-energy beam welding: laser, plasma and electron beam welding
  • Stud, electroslag and ultrasonic welders; friction and friction stir welding machines; high-frequency induction welders
  • Gas welding equipment; brazing, soldering and micro-welding equipment; welding consumable production equipment; H-beam welding lines
  • Joining by stamping, riveting, adhesive bonding and bolting; clinching
  • Positioners and fixtures; bevelling equipment; welding cleaning and heat treatment equipment; preheating and cooling equipment
  • Air purification and respiratory protection equipment; head, face, eye and helmet protection equipment

Data processing, intelligent manufacturing and automation

  • Mechanical and electronic control systems (CNC); complete automation solutions
  • Automatic die setting; quick clamps and fixtures; trackless transfer cars; sheet turning, levelling, automatic cleaning and oiling equipment
  • Scrap transfer and processing equipment; die, sheet and workpiece transfer equipment
  • CNC cushion systems; noise reduction equipment; vibration damping devices; wireless identification equipment
  • Robots, manipulators, robotic arms, end effectors and conveyor belt systems
  • Feeding and loading devices; ejectors; drawing cushions and stacking equipment; material storage and sorting devices
  • Intelligent control and sensing equipment
  • ERP, MES and CAD/CAM systems; digital process simulation software; online plant and equipment simulation and analysis systems
  • Weld inspection equipment; welding, spot welding, cutting and grinding robots; weld seam sensing and tracking equipment
  • Automatic die change and robotic quick-change loading equipment; stamping step feeders and conveying mechanisms
  • Marking and measuring machines; marking tables; identification, reading and tracking devices
  • Precision measuring instruments; CNC measuring, inspection and calibration machines
  • Detectors, penetrants, couplants, thermometers, sensors, flow meters and stress-strain measuring instruments

Materials and auxiliary materials

  • Welding materials: electrodes, solid wire, backing materials, hardfacing materials, brazing filler metals and fluxes
  • Die steel and die repair welding materials
  • Steel ingots, billets and metal bars; non-ferrous metals
  • Metal sheets, tubes, profiles and wire
  • Saw blades and saw bands; sheet metal surface cleaning materials
  • Lubrication, cooling and protective materials

Plant and warehousing equipment

Process control, quality assurance, safety and environmental protection

Reference

Six themed shows
Six shows run under one roof: ChinaForge Fair for forging, SheetMetal China for stamping technology and equipment, MetalFab China for sheet metal fabrication, MetalComp China for metalformed components, JointWeld China for joining and welding, and Die & Tool China for dies and tooling.
September Festival
The organiser launched the September Festival in 2016 to group the industry annual conferences with the exhibition. The 2027 edition includes the forging, stamping and sheet metal fabrication conventions, an industry development forum, a buyers meeting, rolling launches of new technology and equipment, and technical cooperation and talent exchange sessions.
Visitors (2026)
The 2026 edition drew 24,508 visitors, 1,816 of them from outside China, together with 136 visiting groups; 31% arrived with stated purchasing intent.
Origins
The show grew out of the Beijing forging and metal component exhibition started in 1990 and the Shanghai stamping and sheet metal shows started in 2004; the two merged in Beijing in 2007.

Practical information

Organizer
Confederation of Chinese Metalforming Industry
Visiting address
National Exhibition and Convention Center (Shanghai)No. 333 Songze Avenue, Qingpu District, Shanghai

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