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The Show for Developers and Integrators of Advanced Materials

Connect with the people, technologies and insights driving the next generation of high-performance materials across multiple industries.

The Advanced Materials Show brings together the entire advanced materials supply chain, from research and development through to commercial application.

Across two focused days, visitors can explore the latest innovations in materials, manufacturing processes and technologies, meet leading suppliers, and gain insight into how advanced materials are shaping future products, systems and infrastructure.

Whether you are developing new products, optimising performance or improving sustainability, the show provides the knowledge and connections to support your next move.

NEC, Birmingham | 8th & 9th July 2026 | Free to attend

 

 

Experience the 2025 show from an attendee’s point of view. This walkthrough shows how visitors move through the exhibition, explore exhibitor stands and engage with the latest innovations. It offers a realistic preview of what to expect, helping you plan your visit and make the most of your time at the show.


What To Expect at the Show

All designed to help you discover solutions, build partnerships and stay ahead of industry change.

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Why Attend The Advanced Materials Show

Discover Cutting-Edge Materials Technologies

Explore innovations across composites, polymers, ceramics, metals, coatings and more.

Connect with the Full Supply Chain

Meet material suppliers, manufacturers, researchers and end-users in one place.

 

Gain Practical, Actionable Insights

Learn from industry experts tackling real engineering, manufacturing and sustainability challenges.

 

Source New Suppliers and Partners

Compare solutions, evaluate new technologies and accelerate procurement decisions.

 

Stay Ahead of Market Trends

Understand how advanced materials are enabling lighter, stronger, smarter and more sustainable products.


Who Is the Show For?

The Advanced Materials Show is designed for professionals involved in the research, development, specification and application of advanced materials, including:

  • R&D and Materials Engineers
  • Product Designers and Developers
  • Manufacturing and Production Managers
  • Procurement and Supply Chain Professionals
  • Sustainability and Innovation Leads
  • Technical Directors and Decision-Makers

From early-stage research through to large-scale manufacturing, the show attracts those actively shaping the future of materials technology.

Industries in Attendance

Visitors attend from a broad range of sectors, including:

  • Aerospace
  • Aviation
  • Automotive & Transportation
  • Chemicals
  • Construction & Infrastructure
  • Defence & Security
  • Electronics
  • Energy & Renewables
  • Industrial Manufacturing
  • Medical & Healthcare

This cross-industry environment encourages collaboration, innovation transfer and new commercial opportunities.


2026 Exhibitors


Co-located with

The Advanced Materials Show is co-located with three other targeted events, giving visitors access to a broader range of technologies, solutions and expertise, all under one roof. This creates a unique environment where materials innovation connects directly with manufacturing, processing and end-use applications.


2025 Testimonials

The co-location really works to bring companies together, whether it’s looking at graphene, carbon, etc. for batteries, - you can go between the two. And I think that transfer of knowledge is really critical.

Prof. Jacqui Murrary, Director of South Wales, High Value Manufacturing Catapult

Connecting with potential customers, industry leaders, it’s always valuable. We had a lot of people at the stand from all industries, all positions within those industries, so it gives us an opportunity to open new relationships with new companies and also meet people that we have existing relationships with/

Mark Daniels, Global Marketing Communications Lead, Goodfellow Cambridge Ltd

The show has definitely helped us connect with both customers and other partners across the ecosystem of the materials world. It’s a great place for everyone to get together, come and have the conversations, look at what we’ve got to offer. We can understand more about our customer’s challenges, more about our potential partner strengths, and we can all work together and crack on with some of these challenges.

Richard Goodhead, Chief Marketing Officer, Lucideon

Having the opportunity to come to this expo where we have a multitude of technologies and expertise all under one roof really allows that natural innovation and those connections to form that frankly would not happen if people were boxed into one technology exhibition, so all of the expertise under one roof is very beneficial for participations and for visitors to the expo.

Ruth Nic Aiodh, Director of Vehicle Programmes, JLR

The four co-located events within the two halls is perfect because while we are sat in the advanced materials section, the other three shows: ceramics, electric vehicles, batteries, etc. – they’re all sectors that we are actually involved with. It's really valuable for us to be here against all of those.

Mark Daniels, Global Marketing Communications Lead, Goodfellow Cambridge Ltd

These events are just the best way to meet people, talk to them, make them aware of what we do, and also learn from them, and what they are looking for.

Olivier Savard, Thermal Analysis Product Manager, Hitachi High-Tech Analytical Science Ltd

We’ve come across a lot of new contacts – not necessarily just for new business but for new technologies and new material choices. We’ve been able to expand our connections not just for our local facility, but for the global facility that we are working with – so it’s been a very good show.

Chris Johnson, Sales Manager, Coorstek

Having these four events all together presents the opportunity of all different technical teams to see a little bit around or above the constraints – this is an opportunity for innovation itself, so I really appreciate this fusion of the expos together.

Marco de Luna, Lead Product Manager, Battery Value Chain, Stellantis

People should come here and connect with the community that is growing all the time – this sector is going to have major growth, and the UK needs to carry on working, so that connection is important. That forming of partnerships and working collaboratively is important – this environment provides that networking opportunity, which is fantastic.

Naseer Ahmed, Commercial Director, UKBIC

The co-location of the various aspects of the show are synergistic because for example, the electrification and the batteries – they will encounter materials challenges. What better than to have the materials industry next door to them, having those conversations and working together in harmony?

Richard Goodhead, Chief Marketing Officer, Lucideon

Co-locating the different show subjects is going to cross-pollinate quite substantially between the different industries. We’re all working in advanced materials; it’s just the end product that’s different. So bringing everyone together is definitely going to help with that networking and help to produce new technologies and innovation.

Adam Revill, Product Manager, Nu Instruments Ametek

It's great to be here today - we get the right type of people coming along, looking for the materials and for the services, trying to find solutions to their problems, so it’s always a reason for us to come to The Advanced Materials Show.

Mark Daniels, Global Marketing Communications Lead, Goodfellow Cambridge Ltd

These four events are essential to impact the industry, mainly because they all link to each other, they are all important sectors – they are all the future of the industry, of the material science, it is good to have them in the same show.

Olivier Savard, Thermal Analysis Product Manager, Hitachi High-Tech Analytical Science Ltd

My key takeaway from The Advanced Materials Show that I would recommend to others is to just come along. There are so many different businesses here, it’s not just in materials, it’s people doing testing, it’s people doing analysis, 3D printing – there’s so much to see here. The talks on the stages have been fantastic – you can learn a lot, you can find something new.

Mark Daniels, Global Marketing Communications Lead, Goodfellow Cambridge Ltd

You do a great job of promoting unique research and industry challenges at the theatre sessions – if you want to see where industry demands are going to be in the sector over the next 5, 10, 20 years – this is a really good starting place to uncover those demands and meet the people that are going to be driving it.

Tom Gould, Managing Director, Verder Scientific UK

We have been to the show for many years, we are a big fan and a supporter. It's a really great forum for everyone to get together and have the conversations that are necessary to collaborate and crack some of the challenges that we all collectively face

Richard Goodhead, Chief Marketing Officer, Lucideon

We’ve established new contacts, we’ve learned about new technologies, we’ve seen a whole range of really crazy type of things – I think it’s been a really good compact show, and I would recommend the show to anybody.

Chris Johnson, Sales Manager, Coorstek