The Ringier Technology Innovation Awards for industrial manufacturing were inaugurated by Ringier Trade Media in 2006. The Awards is now rewarded to a select group of innovators each year in China's metalworking industry. The purpose of the Awards is to encourage, acknowledge and reward those individuals and companies who have developed a new idea, a new methodology, a new product or a new technology for manufacturing production efficiency, cost effectiveness, user convenience, which results in energy saving and more responsible clean manufacturing in the metalworking industry. 2014 Ringier Technology Innovation Awards – Metalworking Industry is officially supported by the Metalworking and CNC Machine Tool Show 2014 (MWCS 2014) which is organized by Hannover Milano Fairs Shanghai Ltd. and the Awards ceremony will be held at MWCS 2014. This provides winners with great brand exposure at the trade show.