Chinaplas 2016 | exhibition preview
Shanghai set for Chinaplas 2016
The 30th Chinaplas exhibition takes place at the Shanghai New International Expo Centre in Shanghai, China, from 25-28 April 2016. This major international event - second in scale only to Germany’s K show – is expected to draw in some 140,000 visitors and will include more than 3,200 exhibitors over a total exhibition space of 240,000m2
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according to show organiser Adsale Exhhibition Services. Chinaplas attracts a signifi cant international
attendance. Close to 30% of the 128,000 people that attended the Chinaplas show in Guangzhou last year came from outside of China. Attendance at the most recent Shanghai edition in 2014 was 130,370 (the annual show alternates between Guangzhou and Shanghai) with a similar international share. The Chinese economy has weakened in 2015 and the
outlook is for continuing weak growth during 2016. But the country remains very much a manufacturing powerhouse and a key market for plastics. According to data from Adsale, for instance, the country produces twice as many cars as the US, ships 35% of the world’s mobile phones, half the world’s plastic pipes and a huge 85% of all electrical appliances. China is also an important plastics and rubber machinery manufacturing nation. Figures compiled by the European plastics and rubber machinery associa- tion Euromap estimate China’s production of plastics and rubber machinery amounted to a value of €10.8bn in 2014 or 33.4% of global production. And the country’s machinery exports amounted to €2.5bn, equivalent to
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12.8% of global machinery exports. China is also a key market for exporters of plastics machinery. Data from the plastics and rubber machiney division of Germany’s VDMA trade association showed global exports of plastics and rubber machinery to China amounted to a value of €2.45bn in 2014. The Chinese plastics machinery market has been
impacted by the country’s slowing economic growth - German machinery exports to China declined by 19% from €809m in 2014 to €653m in 2015, for example. However, many overseas machinery producers are ramping up their production in China and will be using Chinaplas to show their latest locally-built introductions. This year’s show will once again host a number of special themed events, covering sectors such as recycling technology, green developments and smart manufacturing. There will also be several industry- specifi c zones covering automotive, packaging and
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