Chinaplas 2014 | show preview
Spotlight falls on Shanghai
The Chinaplas show returns to Shanghai for 2014, with the doors opening on the event on 23 April. The largest plastics industry trade show of this year, more than 100,000 people are expected to pass through the turnstiles of the Shanghai New International Expo Centre before the show closes on 26 April, according to organiser Adsale Exhibition Services. It says more than 2,900 companies will exhibit at this year’s show - the 28th
- taking up a total of 220,000m2 of fl oor space. China has not escaped the impact of the global
downturn, but in its case has seen slower rather than negative growth. Government fi gures put GDP growth for 2013 at 7.7%, the same as 2012, and its economists forecast a 2014 performance of between 7 and 8%. Big efforts are underway to refocus economic growth on domestic consumption rather than exports. And this, together with rising labour costs, is seeing a general upgrading of manufacturing technology in all industries, including plastics. “Many companies understand that using low-end
technology to operate cannot sustain their development. Technological and management breakthrough, quality upgrade and following government policies like energy saving, high effi ciency and environmental protection are the best solutions,” says Adsale chairman Stanley Chu. Chinese plastics processors are turning their
attention to high growth industries and increasingly to the automated high technology manufacturing solutions used in Europe and the US, examples of which will be seen throughout the Chinaplas show. Over the next seven pages, we take a look at what will be on show in Shanghai.
Arburg
www.arburg.com
German injection machine maker Arburg sees the Chinaplas show as critical for its global development. “With their strong growth rates, the markets in China and Asia are very important for us. We are, therefore, active at the local level here and have signifi cantly improved customer support with our distribution warehouse near Shanghai, which we opened in 2013,” says Arburg managing director of sales Helmut Heinson, who says the company is now able to offer faster delivery of machines and automation to the region. Arburg’s product display will
focus on high performance automated manufacturing, which will be demonstrated in the form of a high speed IML packaging system and electron- ics overmoulding application.
www.injectionworld.com Chinaplas is back in Shanghai for
2014. Injection World takes a look at what will be on show at this year’s biggest plastics exhibition
Left: Arburg will show high speed IML moulding on a hybrid Hidrive machine
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