CIME Shenzhen International Thermal Conductive & Heat Dissipation Materials and Equipment Exhibition 2027Shenzhen Thermal Materials and Liquid Cooling Expo: Dates & Visitor Guide

What is CIME Shenzhen International Thermal Conductive & Heat Dissipation Materials and Equipment Exhibition?

CIME is a trade show for heat-management materials and equipment. It started in Shenzhen in 2013 and is run by Bohan Exhibition and Shenzhen Liyue Exhibition. It now tours several cities: Shenzhen in June, and Suzhou and Shanghai later in the year. The edition numbers count every city, which is why the June 2027 Shenzhen show is billed as the 18th. In Shenzhen, CIME runs at Shenzhen World in Bao'an together with two sister shows from the same organizers. These are the Shenzhen International AI Computing Power Industry Expo and the Shenzhen International Data Center Liquid Cooling Technology Expo, which will be in its 10th edition in 2027. Together they present the full chain from thermal materials to cooled AI infrastructure.

On the CIME side you find thermal fillers and thermal-interface materials, graphite and graphene, carbon materials, ceramic substrates, high-performance heat-dissipation materials, and the machines that process them. The liquid-cooling side covers cold plates and microchannel plates, server and CDU cabinets, manifolds, pumps and valves, quick-disconnect couplings, leak and helium testing, immersion and spray cooling, cooling towers and heat exchangers, and CNC, laser, brazing and 3D-printing equipment for making the parts. Companies at the June 2026 shows included Gree, Emicon (依米康), Zhejiang Sanhua, Tongfei, Foxconn (Futaihua), McQuay, Brother, Create Century and Qiaofeng. There were also liquid-cooling specialists such as Baizan Gaohongjie and materials firms such as Guangdong Puwan.

According to the organizer's report, the combined June 2026 event covered 40,000 m² with 874 exhibitors and 51,065 professional visitors, across Halls 14 and 16. For 2027 the organizers are aiming for about 60,000 m² and around 30 technical talks. The visitors they target are engineers and buyers from data centres, telecom, consumer electronics, power electronics, EVs and batteries, energy storage, solar, semiconductors and aerospace.

The show suits the moment. AI servers have pushed rack power high enough that liquid cooling is becoming standard, and Shenzhen and Dongguan are full of the server, phone and battery makers who need these parts. CIME is a practical sourcing floor rather than a research conference. Many exhibitors are component makers and equipment builders, so it is a good place to find cold-plate, heat-sink and TIM vendors and to compare CNC and brazing equipment.