AMB is one of the world's leading trade fairs for metalworking and machine tools, held every two years at Messe Stuttgart. The 2026 edition runs 15-19 September 2026 across more than 125,000 sqm. Organised by Messe Stuttgart, AMB gathers around 1,500 exhibitors and draws over 50,000 visitors from the automotive, aerospace, energy and mechanical-engineering industries, showcasing cutting, turning, milling, precision tools and manufacturing technology.
AMB is a working-machinery fair, and that makes its stands among the more technically demanding to build. Exhibitors install and run real machine tools on their stands, so booths require very high floor loads, three-phase power, compressed air and often coolant and swarf handling, with the machine as the centrepiece and demonstration and meeting space arranged around it. The engineering audience expects to see equipment cutting metal live, so the stand is effectively a working production environment.
AMB fills the Stuttgart halls organised by process and product type, so hall placement relative to a company's technology matters to reaching the right buyers. The weight of the machine tools and the services they need make these builds slower and more load-critical than typical stands, and Messe Stuttgart's technical rules on floor loading and power apply. Given this, exhibitors confirm stand design, machine logistics and hall placement well in advance.
For companies exhibiting at AMB, a builder with Stuttgart and Messe Stuttgart experience is a practical advantage: installing and powering heavy machine tools, managing floor loads and services is specialist work, and local knowledge of the venue's logistics, forwarder and approved contractors reduces on-site risk during one of the key weeks in the metalworking calendar.