K 2025

‘Embracing Digitalisation' takes centre stage at world's top plastics trade fair / Focus on driving efficiency and innovation

K 2025

“The Power of Plastics! Green – Smart – Responsible” is the motto of this year's leading plastics trade fair

MESSE DÜSSELDORF

Operative MD Wienkamp to retire / Long-time divisional manager of K trade fair

K 2025

Triennial event gearing up for next year's show / Themes will be circular economy, digitalisation, and ‘people'

K 2025

“The Power of Plastics! Green – Smart – Responsible”: organiser announces motto, key topics of leading plastics trade fair

K 2025

“It's K time again” – Organiser opens registration for world's leading plastics trade fair

INTERPACK

Trade fair visitor numbers still below pre-pandemic mark / Global shifts blamed for attendance results

SUSTAINABLE PACKAGING

Design for recycling guide now in Arabic, Czech, Spanish / Plastics drive range of advances / RecyClass approves HDPE tube / Bioplastics for LVMH perfume caps

K 2022

World's top trade fair for plastics winds down / Organiser says show met “highest expectations” / 176,000 industry visitors from 157 nations / 2025 dates announced

K 2022

70 years of K / Energy crisis, circular economy and climate protection leading topics / More than 3,000 exhibitors from 60 countries / German firms to cover over one-third of floor space

K 2022

"Plastics and sustainability are no longer a contradiction" / Interview with Thomas Franken from Messe Düsseldorf

KI GROUP SUMMIT K 2022

“Plastics 2022 and beyond: From Disruption to Transformation” / 7th KI Group Summit features key industry topics and issues

PLASTICS INDUSTRY USA

Increase in domestic shipments, machine making in 2021 / Trade deficit in 2020

K 2022

Special show to focus on climate protection, circular economy, digitalisation

DUPONT

Divestment of POM business / Sales talks to start soon

CHINAPLAS

Plastics trade fair postponed indefinitely due to pandemic control measures / German organisers optimistic about K 2022 in October

UKRAINE

War hits plastics processors / Stoppages at units in Ukraine, Russia / Concerns rise over price hikes, supply shortages / Moscow mulls expropriations

MESSE DÜSSELDORF

Suspension of business activities in Russia / Hall in Düsseldorf for Ukrainian refugees / Start-Up Zone for new companies at K 2022

UPDATE - PLASTINDIA

Indian trade fair postponed again due to Covid-19 / New dates in 2023

K 2022

Strong interest from exhibitors for Messe Düsseldorf / 3,000 registrations for next year's trade fair

CHINAPLAS

First in-person trade fair since the beginning of the coronavirus crisis / Very few international impulses expected

K 2022

Registration for world's leading plastics trade fair now open

TRADE FAIRS

Messe Düsseldorf acquires stake in “Colombiaplast” / Plastics and rubber portfolio in South America for the first time

TRADE FAIRS

World's leading packaging show “interpack” 2021 cancelled / High numbers of coronavirus infections raise uncertainty among companies

TRADE FAIRS

“interpack” set for 2021 / JEC, Plast Eurasia postponed