IMTS 2006 FACT SHEET

Fact Sheet

Name of Show: IMTS 2006 - International Manufacturing Technology Show
Show Sponsor: AMT-The Association For Manufacturing Technology
Show Dates: September 6-13, 2006
Show Location: McCormick Place, Chicago, IL USA

About the Event:
IMTS 2006 will be the 26th edition of the largest manufacturing and technology show in North America.  More than 1,200 exhibiting companies will occupy over 1,150,000 square feet of exhibit space at the McCormick Place complex in Chicago, Illinois.  IMTS is held every even-numbered year in Chicago and attracts over 85,000 buyers and sellers from 80 countries.

Pavilions:
To help guide attendees to booths quickly and easily, we organize exhibits in Pavilions that are geared toward specific industries, technologies and solutions.  Following is the list of Pavilions: Abrasive Machining/Sawing/Finishing; Controls & CAD/CAM; EDM; Fluid Power; Gear Generation; Machine Components/Cleaning/Environmental; Metal Cutting; Metal Forming & Fabricating/Lasers; Quality Assurance; and Tooling and Workholding Systems.

Attendees:
Manufacturing industry professionals from the United States and from over 80 countries from around the world attend IMTS. They attend to see more than 15,000 new machine tools, controls, computers, software, components, systems and processes that can improve their efficiency. They will also gain valuable ideas and insights from over 1200 of the worlds leading equipment producers. They come to look and they come to buy.

Exhibitors:
Over 1200 exhibitors from the metalworking industry will display their products and productivity solutions at McCormick Place in Chicago covering over 1,150,000 square foot of show floor. Leading manufacturers will display their equipment in the following product category pavilions: Metal Cutting: Contains everything from machining centers and assembly automation to Flexible Manufacturing Systems and lathes. Tooling & Work holding Systems: Features jigs, fixtures, cutting tools of all types and related accessories. Metal Forming & Fabricating/Laser: Home to all type of presses as well as laser systems, coil and strip handling equipment, heat treating and more.

Other pavilions at IMTS include Abrasive Machining /Sawing/Finishing; Controls & CAD –CAM; EDM; Gear Generation; Machine Components/ Cleaning/ Environmental; Fluid Power and Quality Assurance.

Show Hours:
Lakeside Center   9:00 am – 5:00 pm
North & South Building:  10:00 am – 6:00 pm
Except Sunday, September 10, 2006 – hours for all buildings will be 10:00 am – 4:00 pm

Manufacturing Conference
The Societyof Manufacturing Engineers (SME), in conjunction with AMT - The Association For Manufacturing Technology, has developed the most comprehensive educational conference in the manufacturing community. Find out more about the Manufacturing Conference under the Conference section.

Show Registration Fees
 Register by 8/4/06 and the registration fee is $25.00/person. After 8/4/06, the registration fee is $50.00/person. To save money, take advantage of the special price given for groups. To qualify as a group, you must have 5 or more people from the same company, and everyone must register at the same time. Group registration is $15.00/person and ends 8/4/06. All registration is non-refundable.

Show Management
AMT - - The Association For Manufacturing Technology
7901 Westpark Drive
McLean, VA 22102-4206 USA