Chinaplas 2025 will host over 4000 international exhibitors, with 380,000 m<sup>2</sup> of space, showcasing the latest innovations in plastics and rubber solutions. The exhibition will take place at Shenzhen, China, on April 15–18, 2025.

Verbände, Institutionen, Messen

Dienstleistungen

Kunststoff-Aufbereitung

Kunststoffverarbeitung: Verfahren

Kunststoff-Halbzeuge

Halbzeuge und Zwischenprodukte

Kunststoffverarbeitung: Maschinen und Komponenten

Kunststoff Werkstoffe

Messe Chinaplas

kunststoffe-international.com

Kunststoffverarbeitung

Lohnfertigung

Kunststoffhandel

Handel

Länderspecial China

Kunststoff-Recycling

Green, Smart, and High-Tech Solutions on 380,000 m<sup>2</sup>

The WERIT Kunststoffwerk headquartered in Altenkirchen (Rhineland-Palatinate, Westerwald) is a modern family-owned company operating throughout Europe.

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Armaturen

Drucklufttechnik

Betriebsausrüstung / Betriebsmittel

Mechanische Konstruktionselemente

Maschinenelemente

Behälter / Silos

Lagereinrichtungen

Elektronik

Elektronik-Fertigung

Fasern

Gehäuse aus Kunststoff

Kühlkörper

Elektromechanik

HV-Anwendungen / Hybridisierung / Elektrifizierung

Elektromobilität

Mobilität

Halbleiterfertigung

Halbleiterlaser, Diodenlaser

Photonik

Heizung

Haustechnik

Klemmen

Lichtwellenleiter (LWL)

Palettiersysteme

Anlagen / Systeme

Fertigungsautomation

Palettierung

Werkstückspanntechnik, spanend

Spanntechnik

Polyethylen

Thermoplaste

Schalter, Taster

Schrauben

Normteile

Simulation Verpackung

Simulation

Software

Teile nach Muster

Verbindungstechnik

Marina Arz has been appointed as the new Managing Director of IVK Europe, the European Association of Plastic Films and Sheets. She took up her new position on April 1st 2021.

Marina Arz has been appointed as the new Managing Director of IVK Europe

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Flachfolien- und Plattenextrusion

Extrusion

Folien

New Managing Director of IVK Europe

Whether it is the cycle time, energy consumption or process stability: the levers for greater efficiency and quality in the injection molding process are many and varied. With the new performance.boost Engel offer its customers an expertise as a service for process analysis and optimization.

With its expert knowledge, the company identifies process optimization potential and provides user support during their implementation. The results include shorter cycle times, superior part quality, greater process stability, lower energy consumption or a longer machine service life

Spritzgießen

Instandhaltung

Industrie 4.0 für die Kunststoffverarbeitung

Industrie 4.0

Spritzgießmaschinen

Instandhaltungssoftware

Optimize Processes Efficiently with Engel performance.boost

Susanne Schröder will become editor-in-chief of the magazines Kunststoffe and Kunststoffe international on December 1, 2020. The current editor-in-chief Dr. Karlhorst Klotz will leave the company by mutual agreement.

Susanne Schröder will become editor-in-chief of the magazines Kunststoffe and Kunststoffe international on December 1, 2020. Until now she has been editor-in-chief of the trade journal FORM+Werkzeug

Werkzeuge für Leichtbauwerkstoffe

Präzisionswerkzeuge

Tiefziehwerkzeug

Werkzeug-, Formen- und Modellbau

Werkzeugüberwachung

Toolmanagement

Werkzeugwechselsysteme, Spritzgieß

Werkzeuge für die Kunststoffverarbeitung

Spritzgießwerkzeuge

Werkzeug- und Formenbau

Modulare Werkzeugsysteme

Absaugungen für Werkzeugmaschinen

Absaugvorrichtungen

Fluorkunststoffe

Werkzeugverwaltungssoftware

Prüfen von Kunststoffen

Messtechnik

Biokunststoffe

Presswerkzeuge, Kunststoff

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Standardkunststoffe

Technische Kunststoffe

Füllstoffe für Kunststoffe

Kunststoff

Bauwesen

Baustoffe

Betriebstechnik für Kunststoffverarbeitung (Peripherie)

Kunststofffasern

Verstärkungsstoffe

Hochleistungskunststoffe

Qualitätssicherung Kunststoff

Qualitätssicherung

Change in the Chief Editorial Office of Kunststoffe

Due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, the Plastics Industry Association (PLASTICS) decided the cancellation of the in-person components of NPE2021, scheduled for May 17–21, 2021, in Orlando, Florida.

No Live-Event from May 17 – 21, 2021

Kunststoff-Verpackungsmaschine

Sondermaschinen

NPE2021: In-Person-Components Cancelled

With immediate effect the registration documents for K 2022 are available online. The deadline for registration for all the companies wishing to participate in K 2022 is 31 May 2021.

The next K show will take place in Düsseldorf from October 19 to 26, 2022

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Komponenten für die Kunststoffverarbeitung

Messe K-Kunststoffmesse

Kunststoffverarbeitungsmaschinen

Kunststoff-Erzeugung

K 2022: Registration Documents Available

AMI has announced that its four focused plastics industry exhibitions, which were scheduled to take place at Messe Essen in Germany on 1–2 June 2021, have now been postponed to 29–30 September 2021.

AMI Postpones European Plastics Industry Expos

Pascal Laborde has been in charge of the French Arburg subsidiary in Aulnay-sous-Bois since 1 November 2020. His main objectives are to further develop the successful business in France and to continue to advance the excellent reputation Arburg enjoys as a machine builder and partner for the plastics processing industry.

Pascal Laborde has been in charge of the Arburg subsidiary in France since 1 November 2020.

Digitale Transformation

Wirtschaft

Innovationen und neue Technologie

Automatisierungstechnik

New Managing Director for Arburg France

Chinaplas 2021 will take place on April 13 – 16, 2021 in Shenzhen, PR China, with “New Era − New Potential − Innovation for Sustainability ” being the show theme. 3,600 exhibitors from 50 countries present the latest innovation of the plastics and rubber industries.

Chinaplas 2021 to Open on April 13

More than 150,000 visitors came to the first post-pandemic international trade fair for the plastics and rubber industries in Shenzhen, China.

Chinaplas 2021 Concluded with Great Success

K 2022 will again occupy the entire fairgrounds, some 3000 companies from all continents have registered to exhibit their innovations. The leading themes are circular economy,  digitalization and climate protection.

Some 3000 companies from all continents have registered to exhibit their innovations

3000 Exhibitors Will Come to K 2022

A total of around 600 exhibitors from 26 nations are taking part in Interplastica, international trade fair for the plastics and rubber industries, and Upakovka, Russia‘s leading trade fair for processing and packaging, which takes place simultaneously.

Russia is an important market for the plastics and rubber industries.

Interplastica 2022 from 25 to 28 January 2022 in Moscow

Perc Pineda, PhD, Chief Economist of the Plastics Industry Association (PLASTICS), summarized the U.S. plastics industry performance in 2021 in seven charts.

The US Plastics Industry in 2021

How a national industry show became the world‘s leading trade fair for the plastics and rubber industry.

165,000 visitors marveled the „Wunder der Kunststoffe“ at its premiere in 1952.

A World Career Made in Germany

Amaplast Annouces Second-Best Performance Ever

The manufacturers of plastics and rubber processing machinery and molds closed the year with a turnover of EUR 4.67 billion.

The year-end figures for 2022 are official and the picture painted by the MECS Statistical Study Center, which published them, is a year worth framing: the plastics and rubber technology industry represented by Amaplast (Italian association of manufacturers of plastics and rubber processing machinery and molds) closed the year with a turnover of EUR 4.67 billion, the second-best performance ever.

The variance with respect to 2021 is +5% and the December forecast (4.5 billion) proved to be somewhat cautious. And the balance among Amaplast members was even better (+9% turnover with respect to 2021).

The result is all the more satisfying if compared to the numerous difficulties confronting the industry over the course of the year – some of which are having continuing effects – between export limits to Russia, raw materials and component shortages, and skyrocketing energy costs.

The main driver of this historical result was exports, which showed a particularly positive trend towards the end of the year, with a total value again above the threshold of EUR 3 billion.

After a most excellent 2021, the domestic market remained relatively stable, with a less pronounced increment of 0.8% and turnover of EUR 2.54 billion.

In detail, exports by the Italian manufacturers – which continue to be the destination for 70% of production – show progressive growth towards the three principal geographical destination zones:

<ul><li>Europe (EU and extra EU): +8%</li><li>Americas: +12%, thanks mainly to South America (+33% overall, with peaks mainly for Brazil and also, albeit with lower absolute values, for Colombia, Chile, and Peru). In North America, sales to the United States have slowed somewhat (-3%) while Mexico has recorded a strong new rebound (+35%)</li><li>Asia: +9%. In the Far East (+9% on average), sales to India stand out at +24%, while China has retreated (-7%); in the Middle East (+11% overall) the driving forces are Saudi Arabia (+36%) and the Emirates (+58%).</li></ul>

Contradictory signals are arriving from the African continent, contrary to what was observed for 2021: exports to North Africa fell by 24% on average while those to sub-Saharan markets have increased by a similar proportion.

As regards export product categories, among machines for primary processing we observe robust growth in extruders (+23%) and mono-multifilament systems (+58%), the latter a category that has shown significant progression over the past three years, going from EUR 74 million in 2020 to the historical peak of 140 million in 2022, after the previous decade with values ranging between EUR 30 and 50 million.

On the other hand, injection molding machines exhibit a relatively flat trend while blow-molding systems and thermoforming machines have registered distinctly negative performance at –19% and –22%, respectively.

As regards the first quarter of 2023, the forecast based on an Amaplast member survey in early January highlighted the following expectations:

<ul><li>+7% in orders (with respect to the same period in 2022). The outlook is positive, with substantially similar intensity, for both the Italian and foreign markets</li><li>+6% in turnover, still significantly positive but slightly less stellar than revenues from the previous quarters. Sales abroad should once again be the principal source of satisfaction.</li></ul>

The outlook for the rest of 2023 remains uncertain, given the economic and political context that is still a bit up in the air. While the issue of energy costs and availability of raw materials and components has shown some partial improvement, troubles continue to be the order of the day – such as the recent bank crisis – and this makes any attempt to forecast the future quite challenging, to say the least.

Focusing on the German competitors, on the basis of the most recent surveys, at the end of 2022 they recorded a thirteen point drop in orders (the domestic market is particularly weak) coupled with a +10% in sales (sales abroad showing the principal positive signs). In this first glimpse of 2023, the gap between orders (-40%, with a collapse in domestic orders) and sales (+21% but here the best performance was observed at home) is only deepening.

For the Italian segment of the industry, 2023 is above all the year of Plast, one of the world’s premier fairs for the plastics and rubber industry organized by Promaplast srl. After a five-year hiatus, the fair will open its doors again on 5–8 September 2023 at the Fiera Milano Rho fairgrounds. Companies are getting ready to show the world the best of the Made-in-Italy in terms of design, materials, sustainability, and smart technology.

AMAPLAST Italian Plastics and Rubber Processing Machinery 

https://www.assocomaplast.org

Italian market of machinery, equipment and molds for plastics and rubber.

Destination areas of the Italian plastics and rubber machinery, equipment and molds exports.

Top ten destination countries of the Italian plastics and rubber machinery, equipment and molds exports.