Exhibitions and conferences

Less than four months to go before JEC World opens the doors to the 2024 edition. Well known globally as the main composites festival, a place where business meets inspiration and innovation, the show expects to gather the whole composites community and more. Appointment is settled from 5 to 7 March 2024 in...

The countdown has begun for Plastimagen 2023, the Central America’s premier event. Around thirty companies will take part in the Italian collective at the specialized Plastimagen fair in Mexico City, 7-10 November 2023. Coordinated by Amaplast, they will be the largest European representation by area...

The 28th edition of Fakuma closed on 21 October at the Friedrichshafen Exhibition Centre. 39,343 visitors came to see the 1,636 exhibitors on 85,000 square metres of exhibition space. With an increase of around 10%, 44% of the exhibitors came from abroad: 134 from Italy...

The eighth edition of the “Injection, blow, roto moulding & PET international” summit organised by ElitePlus++ is scheduled to take place in Mumbai on 9 and 10 October. Thanks to the participation of no less than 45 speakers from all over the world, this event will provide an opportunity to...

Held from 5 to 8 September 2023 at Fiera Milano in Rho (Milan), with a net area of 50,000 sqm and 38,000 visitors, Plast 2023 has been confirmed as a successful event. Plast 2023, with its satellite shows Rubber (rubber industry), 3D Plast (3D printing and related), PlastMat (innovative materials) and a wide range of cutting-edge technological...

Plast 2023 closed its doors on 8 September, and now, pending the official figures from the organisers, we can already form an initial tentative picture of how the event went. First of all, the fair was well attended: the organisers already say they were satisfied with the numbers, still unofficial, of visitors who attended over the four days...

Piovan Group is a world leader in the design and production of systems for the automation of construction processes for the storage, transport and processing of polymers, plastic powders and foodstuffs, and is always at the forefront of the search for highly efficient integrated eco-sustainable solutions that optimise the use of raw materials and…

Specialised in the construction of blown film extrusion lines, Tecom, which will celebrate its 60th anniversary in 2023, supplies lines for the mono- and co-extrusion of three and five layers in all types of polyolefin-based materials, biodegradable polymers and post-industrial and post-consumer recycled materials. Always open to new solutions and…

Hosokawa Alpine, headquarters of the Hosokawa Alpine Group, designs, manufactures and installs processing machinery worldwide, supported by an international network of experts to meet the most diverse requirements. The core competence of the Hosokawa Alpine Group is the production of machines and systems for...

The 10th “Specialty Films & Flexible Packaging” summit, organised by ElitePlus, will be held in Mumbai on 31 August and 1 September. To date, around a thousand operators have already registered and as many are expected in the coming weeks from at least 30 countries worldwide...

Founded 55 years ago, Fimic started out in the world of recycling with the construction of cutting systems for bales and rolls of industrial waste, and then developed its technology towards more advanced forms of automation. This includes the filtration process, which today makes it a leading company in the sector...

Founded in 1973, Colines is a family-owned company with a strong international focus, specializing in the development of blown and cast extrusion solutions. The company has always invested in technology and innovation, and it is in constant dialogue with processors, with whom it works in partnership to interpret the market and offer the most…

Founded in 1946, Bausano is a company that designs and manufactures extrusion lines for plastics processing, and for seventy years it has been committed to technological development in order to meet the needs of processors with flexibility, market knowledge and customized solutions to meet the most complex requirements. Alessandra Grosso,…

Founded in 1923 in Lossburg, Germany, Arburg is one of the world's leading manufacturers of plastic processing presses. It is a multinational company with 3,600 employees, 35 locations in over 100 countries and numerous business partners. Raffaele Abbruzzetti, Managing Director of Arburg in Italy, explains...

The major themes that are characterizing the entire plastics and rubber industry and its market will be a focus at Plast 2023, scheduled for 5-8 September at the Fiera Milano fairgrounds in Rho (Milan). The spotlight is on innovation and opportunities offered by developments in production paradigms in...

The first meeting of the Exhibitors’ Council is also the kick-off meeting for K 2025, which will take place from 8 until 15 October, 2025 in Düsseldorf. The panel of experts assembled to discuss the plans concerning the most important fair for the international plastics and rubber industry. The...

JEC World 2023 closed its doors after three vibrant days, from 25 to 27 April in Paris, of intense business activities, expertise and knowledge sharing, highlighting the innovation power of the composites industry as well as its contribution to a more sustainable world. The event welcomed more than...

For those in the product packaging and processing business there was only one “place to be” from 4 to 10 May: Interpack in Düsseldorf. Under the heading “Welcome Home” the trade fair welcomed visitors from all over the world, and the joy of finally coming together as an industry was great. The world’s largest and most relevant packaging...

At the thirty-fifth Chinaplas fair (Shenzhen, 17-20 April 2023), the Italian collective organized by Amaplast (Italian trade association, member of Confindustria, bringing together about 170 manufacturers of plastics and rubber processing machinery, equipment, and moulds) will comprise some forty Italian businesses...

In 2023, covid-19 controls and preventions around the world were gradually relaxed and economic activities started to be resumed globally.