NEWS
Expanding Plastics World Expo moves to Brussels for 2024
AMI — the publisher of Compounding World — has announced that its next Plastics World Expos will take place at the Brussels Expo in Belgium on 11-12 September 2024. The move aims to build on the success of this year’s European expos — which took place in Essen, Germany, in June — with the addition of a new focused exhibition and extra features. At the June 2024 event, the well- established Compounding World Expo and Plastics Recycling World Expo will be joined by the Plastics Extrusion World Expo, which has already become a successful part of the AMI Plastics World Expos in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. It will be Europe’s only focused tradeshow for extruders of film, sheet, pipe, profile and tubing. Each expo will have its own dedi-
cated conference theatre, plus there will be a new Learning Space theatre hosting educational presentations and training seminars. Another new feature for 2024 will be a Chemical Recycling Zone, which is being added to the Plastics Recycling World Expo. This year’s Plastics World Expos
attracted 230 exhibitors and 3,385 visitors from 71 countries to Messe Essen on 14-15 June, making it the largest and most international AMI event held in Europe to date and building on the success of the Euro- pean expos in 2018 and 2021.
The 2024 Plastics World Expos bring a new location and more features
Florian Riedl, Director of Business Development at German plastics recycler APK, said: “It’s my third time here at the Plastics Recycling World Expo and I can definitely recommend it. It’s always a great place for collaboration.” Peter Imhof, Head of Sales at Swiss compounder Polycompound, said: “The favourite part of the show for me was the networking. This is the best event focusing on compounding. You have all you need in one place.” AMI Events Director Andy Beevers
said: “We are delighted that our Plastics World Expos continue to expand in Europe and are looking forward to accelerating that growth in Brussels next year”. He added that the
new Belgian location has been well received by exhibitors thanks to its excellent transport connections and proximity to key customers in Belgium, North Rhine-Westphalia, the Nether- lands and Northern France. Companies that have already
booked stands for 2024 include B+B, Brabender, Coperion, Erema, Farrel Pomini, Gneuss, HPF The Mineral Engineers, ICMA San Giorgio, KraussMaffei, Leistritz, LKAB, NGR, Nordson, Pellenc ST, Polystar, Sesotec, Sikora, Sirmax, Sogapol, Starlinger, Weima and many more. For further information, visit:
www.amiplastics.com/events/ exhibitions
Mega Polymers teams with Rainbow Colors
US plastics distributor Mega Polymers is expanding its compounding division through a partnership with colorant producer Rainbow Colors, combining the capabilities of both at a remodelled 11,500m2 at Elgin in Illinois.
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“This is a game changer,” said Mega Polymers President Christine Haefelin. “It adds a world class ISO 9000 colour lab to our compounding department, opens new doors for our business, and allows us to serve our customers in ways
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we never could before.” Tony Vescovi, VP of
Operations at Rainbow Colors said: “As the land- scape continues to change in the plastics industry, we are excited to increase our offerings of solutions to include recycling and
compounding offered at Mega Polymers. This partnership provides all our customers with new solu- tions to help create efficien- cy, repeatability, and a more sustainable footprint.” �
www.megapolymers.com �
http://rainbowcolorsinc.com
www.compoundingworld.com
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