Building manufacturing partnerships across BRICS and beyond

Connect with manufacturers, technology providers, investors, and innovation partners to access new markets and accelerate digital and Industry 4.0 transformation across the BRICS ecosystem.

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Connect

BCIC gives your company direct access to a network of manufacturers, technology providers, buyers, and research institutions across Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa and partner countries. Through our digital matchmaking platform and curated B2B events, you find the right partners faster and with less risk.

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Grow

Whether your company is entering new markets, adopting cleaner production methods, or addressing financing and intellectual property challenges, BCIC provides expert advisory support tailored to your business needs. Clients benefit from practical guidance delivered by specialists with deep knowledge of BRICS markets and their opportunities.

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Transform

The Factory of the Future program takes your company from where it is today to where it needs to be tomorrow. Through a structured readiness assessment and a tailored implementation plan, BCIC experts help you adopt advanced manufacturing technologies that improve productivity, reduce costs, and strengthen your competitive position.

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What we do

Six services, each built to solve a real problem your company faces - finding a partner, reaching a new market, or upgrading how you produce.

Find partners

Browse 400+ companies and post your own cooperation needs. Request meetings and explore joint ventures, technology deals, and supply chain links across BRICS.

Enter new markets

Access country profiles, market entry guidance, and contacts in Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa and partners countries to help you understand where to go next.

Go digital

Not sure where to start with digitalization? BCIC helps you find out. You begin with a structured digital maturity scan that shows exactly where your company stands across technology, processes, people, and strategy. From there, you and a BCIC advisor build a practical, step-by-step roadmap for adopting the Industry 4.0 tools that fit your production, your budget, and your goals. The result is a clear, prioritized roadmap for your digital transformation journey.

Upgrade your factory

The Factory of the Future program takes you from assessment to action. Working with certified advisors, you modernize your production line by line introducing robotics, automation, sensors, and smart systems where they deliver the biggest return. Each step is matched to your current setup and capacity, so you upgrade at a pace you can manage and finance. The result is higher productivity, lower costs, less downtime, and a factory that stays competitive as the technology moves.

Get expert advice

Every company faces different obstacles and BCIC gives you a specialist for yours. Through one-on-one advisory sessions, you get practical guidance on circular economy and resource efficiency, sustainability and emissions reporting, innovation management, product development, and quality standards. Advisors help you cut through competing priorities and focus on the few changes that move your business forward fastest. You bring the challenge; we connect you with someone who has solved it before.

Access finance & markets

Good ideas stall without funding and market access and BCIC helps you secure both. You get guidance on export readiness and the rules for entering new BRICS markets, a clear view of the financing schemes available to manufacturers, and practical support on protecting your intellectual property before you scale. When you need a specific contact for a financing institution, a buyer, or a partner agency, BCIC makes the introduction, so you can enter new markets with the right people already on your side.

BRICS technology highlights
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    Brazil and China launch AI lab for semi-arid agriculture

    Brazil and China have joined forces to lay the foundation for a laboratory dedicated to developing artificial intelligence and small-scale machinery for family farming in Brazil’s semi-arid regions. 

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    India pioneers air-to-water innovation with launch of nation’s first bottled water made from air

    India has unveiled a pioneering bottled water initiative that uses atmospheric water generation technology to create drinking water directly from air – a first for the country and a milestone in global sustainability. The project introduces a renewable, zero-extraction model for producing pure water without depleting groundwater resources.

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    China accelerates humanoid robot production to reshape industrial innovation

    China's research centres and robotics laboratories have intensified efforts to refine both hardware precision and artificial intelligence systems, inspired by breakthroughs in embodied intelligence – the integration of AI with physical robotics.

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Events

CCF China International Consumer Goods Fair & Modern Lifestyle Expo

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CCF China (Shanghai) International Consumer Goods Fair & Modern Lifestyle Expo (abbreviated as CCF China Consumer Goods Fair) is a specialized trade fair focusing on the home and fashion lifestyle industries.

  • 19-21 March 2026
  • Shanghai, China

INNOPROM. SAUDI ARABIA

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INNOPROM. Saudi Arabia is a strategic international platform for business communication, showcasing innovative solutions, and building connections with industry leaders to facilitate business development and strengthen partnerships.

  • 8-11 February 2026
  • Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

INNOPROM. Central Asia 2026

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International industrial exhibition expanding the INNOPROM platform to Central Asia. Central Asia exhibition has become a traditional platform for generating new projects, initiatives, and ideas in the region.

  • 20-22 April 2026
  • Tashkent, Uzbekistan
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Muller

"The BRICS Centre for Industrial Competencies that we have launched today is a great new platform to unite the BRICS countries’ national efforts and centres into a larger multilateral network. It will be a platform for knowledge and technology exchange and through it UNIDO will help all partner countries to benefit from Industry 4.0, digitalization and innovation. We will promote new public-private partnerships and help BRICS countries to become even more competitive in global markets."

Dr. Gerd Müller

Director General of UNIDO
Gruzdev

“Today we officially launched the BRICS Centre for Industrial Competencies. We are open to a constructive dialogue with our foreign partners and ready to share our experience and expertise, including in such topical areas as the digitalization of industry, ‘new mobility’ technologies, unmanned transport systems, human resources development, SME development and many others.”

Alexey Gruzdev

Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade
of the Russian Federation

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