Complete Auto Recycling Show
Dates: 16 September - 17 September 2026 Venue: NEC Visit Event Website
The Complete Auto Recycling Show & Metals Recycling Event (CARS & MRE) is the UK's leading trade exhibition for the vehicle recycling and metals recovery industries. Bringing together authorised treatment facilities (ATFs), vehicle dismantlers, metal recyclers, processors, scrap merchants, brokers and technology providers, the event showcases the latest advancements in vehicle depollution, dismantling, metals recovery, processing equipment, regulatory compliance and circular economy solutions.
CARS & MRE provides an unrivalled opportunity to connect with leading suppliers, industry experts and key decision-makers from across the automotive and metals recycling sectors. Over two days, visitors can discover innovative products and services, build valuable business relationships, gain insight into emerging trends and explore the technologies shaping the future of resource recovery. Co-located with RWM Expo, the event offers even greater opportunities to network across the wider recycling and resource management industry.
About NEC
In 1976, HM The Queen officially opened the NEC in Birmingham. The NEC has grown in size and notoriety and it has become one of the UK’s primary venues for event organisers, exhibitors and visitors by choice. The NEC initially housed seven exhibition halls – where as to date they house 19, and in addition to this they offer 34 conference suites and numerous outdoor spaces.
For 40 years the NEC has faced challenges, been questioned and propelled itself into exhibition industry to ensure they continue to grow and move with the times because only by doing so can they ensure their exhibitors and visitors can too. It’s an approach that is solid, and the NEC now hosts to over six million visitors and 500 exhibitions each year.
