PM CHINA 2026

PM CHINA 2026 will be held in Shanghai from March 24 to 26, 2026 at the National Exhibition and Convention Center (Shanghai). The organiser’s published scale indicators are meaningful for procurement and engineering teams planning a high-efficiency visit: the show is announced at 55,000+ m² and is expected to gather 1,000+ exhibitors, with professional attendance projected to exceed 80,000 visits. For buyers, these parameters typically translate into deeper supplier optionality across materials, process equipment and downstream applications, enabling structured benchmarking and faster shortlisting. For exhibitors and technology providers, the same scale signals a dense decision-maker audience and a business-first meeting environment where discussions can move quickly from introductions to specification, capability, delivery and cooperation models, which is the critical path for industrial procurement in powder metallurgy and hardmetals.

The thematic focus of PM CHINA is built around powder metallurgy and cemented carbides, with a strong orientation toward industrialisation and application value. The event framing emphasises a full value chain, which matters in practice because purchase decisions in this sector depend on the interaction between powders, tooling, pressing or shaping methods, sintering and heat treatment capability, and quality verification. The exhibition therefore supports system-level evaluation: visitors can compare technology stacks, assess how suppliers manage repeatability and process control, and identify routes to improve cost, performance and production stability. This theme mix makes PM CHINA relevant not only for traditional PM and hardmetals buyers but also for companies seeking advanced manufacturing pathways where material choice and process constraints jointly determine feasibility and total cost of ownership.

PM CHINA positions itself as a flagship event with broad industry participation, bringing together domestic and international companies across the powder metallurgy and hardmetals ecosystem. The exhibitor base is designed to cover both upstream supply and downstream production needs, while the visitor profile is oriented toward professional procurement and technical evaluation. For buyers, the value of this participant mix is practical: it enables direct comparisons of supplier capability, maturity of documentation and quality systems, and readiness to support industrial projects with stable delivery and technical service. For exhibitors, the show concentrates potential customers who typically arrive with defined application needs and purchasing timelines, which improves the efficiency of meetings and increases the probability of post-show conversion into samples, RFQs and long-term supply agreements.

The exhibition scope is described as covering the powder metallurgy and cemented carbide industry chain, which in practice means materials, manufacturing technologies and supporting solutions required for industrial deployment. For procurement teams, this full-chain structure is important because supplier selection often depends on more than a single product; buyers need confidence in process compatibility, quality control, and the supplier’s ability to support repeat orders at scale. PM CHINA provides a venue for assessing not only what a supplier sells, but how they support adoption: technical consultation, process know-how, consistency and the ability to meet engineering constraints. This approach is especially relevant in hardmetals and PM applications where performance tolerances are tight and the commercial risk of instability or delayed delivery is high.

PM CHINA 2026 is scheduled at the National Exhibition and Convention Center (Shanghai), a venue format suited to industrial exhibitions that require equipment presentation, technical consultation and dense B2B meeting schedules. For international and domestic attendees, a large integrated venue supports efficient sourcing: teams can allocate time by category, run parallel tracks for procurement and engineering, and compress the early stages of supplier screening into a short, structured visit. This is particularly valuable in powder metallurgy and hardmetals procurement, where qualifying a supplier typically requires technical clarification, documentation review and early planning for samples or pilot production after the event.

The official PM CHINA site and event communications identify the operating organisation as 新之联伊丽斯（上海）展览有限公司 (Uniris), which manages the exhibition and publishes official updates, contacts and show information. For participants, organiser continuity is a practical signal because it correlates with stable exhibitor recruitment, predictable visitor services and consistent event operations—factors that directly affect the efficiency of business meetings and the reliability of follow-up workflows. In an industrial sector where deals are often built through staged qualification—first contact, technical alignment, samples and RFQs—organiser discipline materially influences how quickly participants can translate show-floor discussions into procurement actions after the exhibition.