In recent years, countries and regions such as the European Union, South Korea, and Australia have introduced “plastic restriction” and “plastic ban” laws. For example, since 2019, South Korea has completely banned the use of disposable plastic bags; since 2021, the EU will completely ban all disposable plastic products that can be produced with other alternative materials such as cardboard. Driven by policies, the global demand for biodegradable plastics continues to grow.
As urbanization and globalization have become the general trend, plastics are playing an increasingly important role in industries such as energy, construction, and real estate. Asia has become the fastest growing region in the world in terms of plastic demand.
The distribution of global plastic exhibitions is consistent with the import and export of plastic machinery in various countries and regions. Generally, they are divided into several types: the first type is the cutting-edge leading exhibitions in mature markets, represented by the world’s three major plastic exhibitions. Such exhibitions usually focus on the release of new products and new technologies, and are also grand gatherings for world-renowned companies; the second type is represented by China, India and Southeast Asia, which are regions with long-term stable development of the plastic industry. The characteristics of this region are long-term stable economic and trade development, so a group of equally stable business platforms have been born; the third type of exhibitions have sprung up in various emerging markets, represented by Africa. This region is characterized by a large population base, large consumption space, and huge market growth potential. It is attracting overseas investment to set up factories to improve iron response capabilities. Improve poverty and backwardness. Africa will definitely undergo earth-shaking changes in the next decade, and this precious land is naturally the most worthy market to invest in and enter.
Key exhibitions:
1. The world’s three largest plastics exhibitions
K Show in Germany, the world’s largest plastic machinery exporter, NPE in the United States, the world’s largest plastic machinery importer, and CHINAPLAS in China, the world’s second largest plastic machinery importer that will soon surpass the United States.
2. Popular exhibitions in other regions
Plastimagen in Mexico, the professional exhibition with the highest repeat rate in the Americas; key exhibitions in markets related to the “Belt and Road”: Vietnam – Vietnam Plas; Thailand – T-Plas/A-Plas/Interplas; Russia – Interplastica/Rosmould; Uzbekistan in Central Asia – Plastex; the Indian market is represented by Plasvision Mumbai, PLASTINDIA, Indoplas, IPLEX, Plexpo, etc., covering all regions of India from east to west and north to south; Africa is represented by the COMPLAS series of plastic industry exhibitions.