Companies from 14 countries, including Germany, China, Japan, the Us, and Taiwan, will display their machines and tools at the 8th Rajkot Machine Tools Show (RMTS), which begins Wednesday.
At a press conference Tuesday, Yogin Chhaniara, president of Machine Tools Manufacturers Association (MTA), said, ‘As many as 350 companies from 14 countries will exhibit their machines and tools at the expo. The exhibitors include eight from Germany, seven from Japan, four from Taiwan, two each from China and the US. During the exhibition, companies will give live demonstrations of automation, robotics, etc.’
TA is an organisation of around 4,500 medium, small and micro enterprises (MSMEs) of Rajkot and Saurashtra that are in the business of manufacturing machine tools. The four-day expo is being organised by the MTA in collaboration with KMG Business Technology, an Ahmedabad-based event-management firm.
According to Tejas Dudakiya, secretary of MTA, in addition to foreign exhibitors, around 150 MTA members and 125 machine tool manufacturers from states such as Maharashtra, Karnataka, and Punjab will display their products at the expo on NSIC ground near Amul Circle in Aji GIDC.