The seventh edition of ITMA Asia + CITME will be held from June 12-16, 2021, in Shanghai. It will be spread over six halls with a gross exhibition space of 170,000 sq m. It will include major Belgian exhibitors such as Picanol, Vandewiele, BMSvision, Bonas, and Hammer-IMS.

The exhibition will also display latest innovations by Symatex a company managed by Agoria, the Belgian federation of the technology industry. The Belgian machinery industry is one of the nation’s biggest investor in R&D. It invests 8 per cent of its added value in R&D and employs over 11 per cent of the total Belgian manufacturing industry research head count.

The industry accelerated its research efforts on energy efficiency in the last decade and achieved an average energy consumption reduction for its products of 18 per cent. The long term strategy directs the Belgian machinery industry towards continuous strategic and open innovation to accelerate its product development pace and to provide its customers with cutting edge technology.