Skip to content
Prospector
Get a free sampleReviews
Blog

TIMTOS 2027 Taipei: Machine Tool Show Guide and Buyer Leads

By Ilyas Kerbal,

Exhibitor explaining machinery at the Taipei International Machine Tool Show
Photo: Office of the President, Taiwan (總統府), CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

TIMTOS (Taipei International Machine Tool Show) is Taiwan’s largest machine tool exhibition and one of the biggest in Asia. Organised by TAITRA and the Taiwan Association of Machinery Industry, TIMTOS 2025 hosted more than 1,000 exhibitors with 6,100+ booths and over 30,000 buyers, led by India, Japan, China, Korea and Malaysia. The next edition runs from 2 to 6 March 2027. Taiwan’s machine tool cluster around Taichung is a major global exporter, and the TIMTOS attendee list reaches both its makers and their international buyers.

TIMTOS at a glance
Industry Machine tools
City Taipei, Taiwan
Venue Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center (TaiNEX 1 & 2), Taipei
Dates March, biennial (odd years), next 2–6 Mar 2027
Frequency Annual (verify cycle)
Moves between cities? Alternates with TMTS (Taichung) in even years
Typical scale ~60,000 attendees · ~1,000 exhibitors
Visitor ticket Free for registered trade buyers
App / platform Online registration + TAITRA buyer matchmaking
Official website timtos.com.tw

Details checked in October 2026. Dates, prices and venues can change between editions, so confirm on the official TIMTOS website before you book travel.

What’s at TIMTOS?

  • Metal-cutting machine tools
  • Machine tool parts and components
  • Cutting tools and tooling systems
  • Laser, welding and sheet metal processing
  • Metal forming, casting and forging
  • Controls, measurement, industrial AI and robotics

Visitors at the 2017 Taipei International Machine Tool Show

TIMTOS showcases Taiwan’s cost-competitive machine tool cluster. Photo: Office of the President, Taiwan (總統府), CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

TIMTOS and TMTS

Year Show City
Odd years (2027) TIMTOS Taipei, Nangang Exhibition Center halls 1 & 2
Even years TMTS Taichung

So Taiwan has a major machine tool show every year, but TIMTOS itself is biennial.

Who attends TIMTOS

Visitor Interest Who should target them
International machine tool buyers (India, SE Asia, Japan) Cost-competitive machines Taiwanese builders
Distributors and agents Lines to represent Taiwanese builders
Manufacturing engineers Machines and tooling Builders, tooling suppliers
Automotive, aerospace and electronics suppliers Capability CNC and automation vendors
Procurement managers Suppliers and pricing Component makers
Researchers Technology Universities

Skip the badge-scanning lottery. I can deliver the TIMTOS exhibitor and attendee list, enriched with job titles, company data and LinkedIn URLs, so your team books meetings weeks ahead instead of hoping for walk-ins. Request the TIMTOS list

Registration

Trade buyers register online; TAITRA trade shows are free for registered professional buyers, but check timtos.com.tw.

TAITRA matchmaking

Registration, exhibitor search and TAITRA procurement and matchmaking meetings run through timtos.com.tw. Matchmaking connects international buyers with Taiwanese exhibitors. If you’re selling to those builders (controls, components, software, services), you’ll want your own enriched list of the exhibitors and their engineering and purchasing leads.

Pros and cons

Pros

  • A showcase of Taiwan’s cost-competitive machine tool cluster
  • Free trade entry
  • TAITRA buyer matchmaking
  • Compact, well-run venue
  • A strong international buyer mix

Cons

  • Biennial in Taipei (TMTS in even years)
  • Taiwan-centric exhibitors
  • Smaller than CIMT or JIMTOF
  • Chinese-language at smaller booths
  • March clashes with other Asian machine tool shows

Outdated titles and missing companies cost you meetings. I clean and enrich TIMTOS profiles before delivery, so the file you import is one your reps can trust. Get a clean TIMTOS list

Preparing for TIMTOS 2027

  1. Register as a buyer and request TAITRA matchmaking.
  2. Shortlist builders by machine type and export experience.
  3. Plan Taichung factory visits around the show.
  4. Book meetings in February, after Lunar New Year.
  5. Compare with CIMT in April if you’re sourcing in Greater China.
  6. Follow up with machining trials.

FAQ

When is TIMTOS 2027?

From 2 to 6 March 2027 at the Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center.

What is TMTS?

Taiwan’s machine tool show in Taichung, held in even years when TIMTOS isn’t.

Is TIMTOS free?

TAITRA shows are free for registered professional buyers; check timtos.com.tw.

Can I get the TIMTOS attendee list?

There’s no exportable list. I can build an enriched list of exhibitors and buyer profiles.

Get the TIMTOS attendee list before the show

Most teams arrive at a show like TIMTOS with a booth, a brochure and no plan for who they actually need to meet. I’m Ilyas, and through Prospector I build enriched attendee, exhibitor and speaker lists for B2B sales teams: job titles, companies, company size, industry, LinkedIn profiles and work emails where available, delivered as a CSV or Excel file that imports straight into HubSpot, Salesforce or Pipedrive. Tell me which event you’re going to and who you sell to, and I’ll take it from there.

Contact me on the home page to request your TIMTOS list

Sources

Photo credits