We have a wide range of contacts to help you export and we organise UK pavilions or have information stands at major international exhibitions.
In 2025 these will be CIMT in Beijing China International Machine Tool Show, EMO in Hannover The world’s leading trade fair for production technology | EMO Hannover and FORMNEXT in Frankfurt Formnext – Hub for Additive Manufacturing .
The MTA will help your company to locate government funding to support exhibitions when this is available.
The MTA works closely with relevant international trade associations in the sector and has an International Trade Committee consisting of experienced exporters in the manufacturing technologies sector who would be able to assist you.
Below are additional useful links for Members looking for support or export advice.

The MTA can offer you export assistance through their partnership with the CIEIT. Full details of the organisation can be found on their website The Chartered Institute of Export & International Trade. Please contact the MTA if you have any questions that cannot be addressed on the platform.

Department for Business & Trade helps businesses export, drives inward and outward investment, negotiates market access and trade deals, and champions free trade.
Visit great.gov.uk to find useful guidance and information on how you can get started with international trade.
Department of Business & Trade is responsible for promoting British trade across the world and ensuring the UK takes advantage of the huge opportunities open to us. We encourage and support businesses to export and grow into global markets. We have International Trade and e-commerce advisers who support businesses one-to-one with dedicated and impartial advice. By working with us you will have access to funding (for eligible companies only), live business opportunities, exclusive virtual trade missions and events which help businesses to develop and innovate their business.
Department of Business & Trade offers a number of services to help businesses take advantage of the opportunities selling overseas can bring.
The area which advises – These include:
- Tailored and sector specific events and virtual trade missions which can be found on events.great.gov.uk/
- The UK Export Academy which is aims to give small and micro-businesses the know-how to sell to customers around the world with confidence.
- Access to finance and insurance from UK Export Finance (UKEF), the UK’s export credit agency
- Advice on selling online via e-Marketplaces
- The ability to search thousands of current export opportunities available around the globe
- Funding for eligible businesses as part of the DIT Internationalisation Fund which can be accessed via your local DIT office.
- The Check How to Export Goods tool provides information for UK tool provides information for UK exporters about duties, rules of origin, customs procedures and the UK border for over 160 markets around the world.
- Step by steps
- Rules of Origin guidance has also been updated with an interactive re-exporting tool for traders Check your goods meet the rules of origin – GOV.UK
To find out more how Government can help you to export see: Export support for UK businesses – great.gov.uk – great.gov.uk
The MTA works closely with relevant international trade associations in the sector.
For further information on exhibiting please contact Karen Finegold, International Adviser (karen.finegold@mta.org.uk)
International Shows within our industry during 2025:
Tooltech & Digital Manufacturing.
CIMT is the most prestigious, largest scale and most influential professional machine tool exhibition in China.
HANNOVER MESSE is the most important international platform and hot spot for industrial transformation.
ASEAN’S leading Advanced Industrial Machinery and Subcontracting Exhibition
The International Engineering Fair (MSV) is the leading industrial trade fair in Central Europe
North America’s Largest Metal Forming, Fabricating, Welding and Finishing Event.
No. 1 Machine Tools & Metalworking Exhibition Serving ASEAN