2026 Vietnam International Smart Shoemaking & Materials Expo | VFM

2026 Vietnam International Smart Shoe Machinery & Materials Exhibition | VFM | Ho Chi Minh City Footwear Procurement Fair in October

The 2026 Vietnam International Smart Shoe Machinery & Materials Exhibition is scheduled to be held from October 14th to 17th at the SECC exhibition hall in Ho Chi Minh City. Currently, the global footwear supply chain continues to shift towards Southeast Asia, with Vietnam becoming a core production base. Coupled with tightening carbon environmental policies and rising labor costs, the demand for intelligent and green upgrades in the industry is exploding. The exhibition brings together the entire industry chain resources of smart footwear manufacturing equipment and environmentally friendly recycled footwear materials, precisely targeting the procurement needs of thousands of footwear factories in Vietnam. Concurrently, multiple industry exhibitions will be held to share a massive number of professional buyers, assisting enterprises in capturing the incremental benefits of the ASEAN footwear market.

Exhibition Full Name: 2026 Vietnam International Smart Shoe Machinery & Materials Exhibition

Exhibition Positioning: The Next Core Trade Platform for the Global Footwear Industry

Exhibition Dates: October 14th - October 17th, 2026

Venue: Saigon Exhibition and Convention Center (SECC), Ho Chi Minh City

Concurrent Exhibitions: Vietnam Textile & Garment Machinery Expo, Fabric Expo, Dyes & Chemicals Expo

Organizer: Guangdong Footwear Machinery Association

Official Inquiry: +86 137 2994 5028

Exhibition Official Website:www.giismex.com

Global footwear and apparel brands are continuously restructuring their supply chains, gradually diversifying production layouts to mitigate risks associated with single regional markets. Leveraging the policy dividends of multiple free trade agreements, a well-developed light industry ecosystem, and low industrial operating costs, Vietnam has firmly established itself as the world's second-largest exporter of finished footwear and serves as a core OEM base for major international brands such as Nike, Adidas, and New Balance. The southern core industrial clusters, including Ho Chi Minh City, Binh Duong, and Dong Nai, are home to thousands of large-scale shoe manufacturing factories. There is a strong demand for the iteration of existing equipment and the expansion of new factory production, making it the most significant incremental market for global shoe machinery and material enterprises.

With the continuous tightening of EU carbon tariffs and global environmental chemical control regulations, brand owners have significantly raised their production standards for supply chains. High-pollution, high-energy-consumption, and high-emission production equipment and raw materials are gradually being eliminated from the market. The footwear industry has fully entered a green transformation cycle, with a surge in demand for low-carbon production equipment such as waterless processing equipment, water-based adhesive processes, and waste recycling systems. Green footwear materials like recycled leather, eco-friendly sole materials, and benzene-free chemical auxiliaries are becoming mainstream procurement choices. Compliance and green practices have become a mandatory threshold for enterprises to secure orders abroad.

Vietnam's local labor costs are rising year by year, and the shortage of skilled technicians continues to expand. The problems of low production efficiency, high error rates, and a large proportion of labor costs in traditional manual assembly lines are becoming increasingly prominent, severely restricting factory production capacity and profit margins. To reduce costs, increase efficiency, and stabilize production capacity, leading Vietnamese footwear companies are accelerating the intelligent transformation of production lines. The adoption of intelligent cutting, automated sewing machines, 3D shoe upper molding, robotic gluing, and digitalized whole-factory assembly lines is rapidly increasing. Small and medium-sized factories are also initiating a wave of single-machine automation replacement, ushering in a concentrated replacement window period for intelligent footwear equipment.

In the past, Vietnam's footwear manufacturing industry was highly dependent on imported shoe materials, accessories, and production equipment, with logistics and tariff costs significantly compressing enterprise profits. Currently, the Vietnamese government is strongly supporting the development of upstream and downstream supporting industries for footwear. Local shoe material, accessory, and component enterprises are building and putting into production in batches, urgently needing high-quality production equipment, raw materials, and technical resources to fill the gaps in the industrial chain. The trend of industrial localization and upgrading is evident, providing excellent localized supplier opportunities for domestic and foreign shoe machinery and shoe material enterprises.

In addition to traditional European and American export markets, the ASEAN region's economy continues to grow, and residents' consumption capacity is steadily increasing. The local domestic market for sports shoes, casual shoes, and fashion footwear is rapidly rising. Vietnam's local footwear independent brands are accelerating their development, forming a dual development model of foreign trade export + Southeast Asian domestic sales. Market demand is becoming more diversified, with a continuous surge in demand for personalized, functional, and high-quality footwear manufacturing equipment and new shoe materials.

The 2026 Vietnam International Smart Shoe Machinery and Materials Exhibition precisely aligns with the current industry trends of footwear industry transfer, green transformation, intelligent upgrading, and comprehensive local support. It focuses on the core needs of the Southeast Asian footwear manufacturing industry, creating a professional and efficient one-stop business matchmaking platform.

Precise and High-Quality Visitor Sources: The exhibition directly faces thousands of large-scale footwear OEM factories, local brand enterprises, import and export traders, and wholesale buyers in southern Vietnam, precisely matching the comprehensive procurement needs for factory expansion, equipment upgrades, intelligent transformation, and green compliance upgrades.

Full Industry Chain Product Coverage: The exhibition will showcase a full range of products on-site, including intelligent footwear automation equipment, genuine leather and recycled synthetic leather, eco-friendly sole materials, eco-friendly chemical auxiliaries for footwear, hardware accessories, and digital whole-plant production lines, fully adapting to the industry's intelligent, green, and efficient development needs.

Co-located Exhibitions Empower Double Traffic: The exhibition will be held concurrently with the Textile and Garment Machinery Exhibition, Fabric Exhibition, and Dyeing and Chemical Exhibition in the same venue, sharing tens of thousands of professional industry buyers and simultaneously radiating to integrated footwear and apparel manufacturers and clients in the luggage and leather goods industry chain, significantly expanding business matchmaking channels.

Seize Incremental Dividends in the Track: Based on Vietnam's advantage as a global footwear core production area, the exhibition will help enterprises seize opportunities during the window period of supply chain transfer and industrial upgrading, quickly establish a foothold in the Southeast Asian market, build long-term and stable upstream and downstream cooperation channels, and capture the trillions of dollars in dividends from the ASEAN footwear market.

⏰ Exhibition Dates: October 14-17, 2026

📍 Venue: Saigon Exhibition and Convention Center (SECC), Ho Chi Minh City

🔗 Exhibition Official Website:www.giismex.com

📞 Official Consultation: +86 137 2994 5028

The global footwear industry is currently at a critical stage of transformation and upgrading, with a reshaping of its landscape. We sincerely invite high-quality enterprises from overseas and domestic shoe machinery, leather, footwear material, and chemical industries to exhibit and visit. Deeply cultivate the core ASEAN market in Vietnam, seize new business opportunities in industrial transformation, and achieve a win-win future for the Southeast Asian footwear industry!