NPE 2015
| event preview
NPE: New Products Everywhere! The leading US plastics exhibition
NPE 2015 takes place on 23-27 March in Orlando, Florida, and it is likely to be the largest US plastics exhibition ever. More than 60,000 visitors are expected to view displays by some 2,000 exhibitors over more than 106,000m2
of exhibition space. And according to
show organiser, the US Society of the Plastics Industry (SPI), more than 400 of those exhibitors will have equipment running on their stands. “With so many exhibitors operating equipment, the show fl oor will be a dynamic panorama of manufacturing in action,” says Gene Sanders, SPI’s senior vice president of trade shows and conferences. The fi ve-day event will be the 28th
NPE, but only the
second to be held in its new home at the Orange County Convention Centre in Orlando. Expectations for the show are high – and with good reason. The relocation after 40 years from Chicago to Orlando in 2012 – princi- pally to control escalating exhibitor costs – was a risky move on the SPI’s part, but one that paid off well. The Orlando exhibition centre together with the city authorities pulled out all the stops to make NPE 2012 a success. There’s no reason to assume Orlando will be any less welcoming this time around. NPE 2012 took place as the US economy began its
recovery from the downturn. Exhibitor mood was optimistic then and is, perhaps, even better now as the US economy is performing well. While the IMF recently downgraded its forecast for global growth for 2015 to
www.compoundingworld.com returns to Orlando next month. We
look at why NPE 2015 is shaping up to be a huge success, and preview a selection of new machinery and equipment that will be on show
3.5%, the US was the sole major world economy to see its economic performance expectation lifted (from 3.1% to 3.6%). US Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) data released
last month showed real US GDP increased at an annual rate of 5% during the third quarter of last year. In addition, the BEA data showed industry’s contribution to GDP increased by more than 21% during the quarter, following a 6% increase in the second quarter. US manufacturers are also investing to support
future growth. BEA’s data shows that investment in industrial equipment was up 16% in the third quarter of last year compared to the same period in 2013. And data from the US Census Bureau shows that the value of industrial machinery orders for the fi rst nine months of 2014 to be 34% ahead of the 2013 period.
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This year’s NPE show is
expected to build on the
success of the 2012 exhibition
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