Complete Auto Recycling Show

Complete Auto Recycling Show & Metals Recycling Event (CARS & MRE) is the UK’s leading business exchange for the vehicle recycling and metals recovery sectors. Bringing together dismantlers, authorised treatment facilities (ATFs), metal recyclers, processors, scrap merchants, brokers and technology providers, CARS & MRE showcases the latest innovations in vehicle depollution, dismantling, metals recovery, processing equipment, compliance solutions and circular economy strategies. 

This is the ultimate platform for accessing the resource, auto and metals recycling sector’s most influential people, technologies, strategies and conversations. Network with world-class suppliers, form lucrative new business partnerships, explore an expansive range of products and services, and connect with the who’s who of the metal recycling industry.

We’re delighted to welcome you for two days of networking, knowledge exchange and business opportunities found nowhere else. Co-located with RWM Expo.

Complete Auto Recycling Show takes place at NEC Birmingham, 16–17 Sep 2026. If you are exhibiting, we design, build and install custom exhibition stands here. Over a show of this length, the stands that perform are the ones where the layout was decided before the visuals.

The NEC is the UK's largest exhibition venue, and the scale changes what works. Halls are vast with long sightlines, so height, lighting and branding readable from the aisle do more work than detail at eye level. Build and breakdown run to allocated slots, and vehicle access to the loading bays is booked in advance.

A full build covers design, manufacture, transport, installation, on-site management and dismantle, along with the RAMS, structural sign-off and contractor coordination the venue requires. You do not need to wait for a callback to find out what it costs — enter your stand dimensions in our online builder for an instant estimate.