Since the launch of Machinery Trade International in 2003, manufacturing has increasingly become a global business activity. The secret behind MTI's success is its ability to break down the barriers to international trade by producing a magazine and website based on a simple, concise and visual format. MTI 's meticulously maintained global circulation of active machine tool buyers ensures a high success rate for its expanding list of advertisers.

The establishment of the successful MTI Live series of international exhibitions, along with annual participation at other machine tool shows around the globe, has served further to enhance MTI 's growing reputation as the world's leading facilitator of machine tool sales.

In the beginning…

Conceived in the summer of 2003 by an experienced team of publishing industry professionals, MTI sought to provide a genuine alternative to 'traditional' magazines promoting used machine tool sales. Classified listings in small print no longer befitted an industry that had gone global.

Led by Bob Sadat, a well-respected individual who has been high profile and influential in the market for over 20 years, the team combined over 70 years of experience in the used machine tool market with a fresh approach and new innovative ideas, driven by high levels of customer satisfaction.

In September 2003, the first issue of MTI magazine landed on the desks of machine tool buyers at manufacturing companies around the globe. MTI s effective use of full colour machine photo panels, offered at low cost, along with the first real weekly international circulation, immediately revolutionised the way machine tools were bought and sold (see testimonials).

The growing success of the magazine was further accelerated in May 2004 with the launch of MTI 's complementary website www.mti-online.com. Since then the winning combination of website and magazine has become the globally recognised media for machine tool sales, whatever the language.