K2025 – MATERIALS | EXHIBITION PREVIEW
Compounders’ guide to Materials and additives
The K2025 fair from 8 to 15 October 2025 in Düsseldorf, Germany, will once again provide a platform for the plastics industry to demonstrate the enabling power of polymeric materials to meet the most difficult global challenges. Following the preview of machinery and equipment exhibitors in the last issue, we highlight in this feature some of the producers of materials and additives and the products they have developed to be enablers of megatrends such as electrification, circularity and consumer protection. An important platform for communi-
cating the K2025 motto, The Power of Plastics! Green – Smart – Responsible, is the special forum in an outdoor pavilion organised by VDMA, the machinery and equipment manufacturers’ association. Thorsten Kühmann, Managing Director Plastics and Rubber Machinery at VDMA, said: “Boasting an impressive 70% of international attendance among exhibitors and visitors K2025 will be the most international plastics trade fair in the world. It is the guiding star of the plastics industry providing orientation for technology development, also in view of the highly dynamic sales markets worldwide.”
The trend to achieving a plastics
circular economy is an important issue covered at the forum, where there will be plastic recycling and recyclate processing machines in operation among the many technologies and materials on show. The VDMA mem- bers will present their technology highlights in the pavilions. Visitors can watch live how high-quality re-granu- late is made from plastic waste or how recyclates are processed into highly functional products by means of various processing methods and with the use of additives. At the same time, visitors can see how digital solutions in manufacturing also pave the way for the circular economy. In addition, the VDMA pavilion will provide ample opportunities for networking and feature a daily, themed programme on circularity, digitalisation as well as young talents and careers. Kühmann said: “The transformation
towards a circular economy is in full swing, and machinery and equipment manufacturers play a pivotal role in it as enablers. They enable the production of recyclable products and the reuse of plastic waste to produce new, high- quality products. We need plastic
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products in nearly all application areas of our daily lives for people’s well-being. They make a significant contribution to maintaining supplies and prosperity in our world while becoming more and more sustainable at the same time.” Companies participating in the outdoor forum include: Arburg, Coperion, Erema, Lindner-Recycling- tech, Vecoplan, Wittmann Battenfeld and VDMA. If you are planning to attend the show but are yet to finalise your travel and accommodation, it is not too late. But you should act fast. There are some useful weblinks at the foot of this page and plenty more in the ‘First Look’ article in the August issue of Com- pounding World. The Compounding World editorial
team will be at K2025 and will be gathering information for our post- event coverage later this year. We will also be reporting on the latest news and innovations as they happen via our @PlasticsWorld feed on X.
Dates: 8-15 October 2025
Venue: Dusseldorf Fairground, Dusseldorf, Germany Hours: 10:00 to 18:30 daily
Advance tickets: One-day €60, three-day €125.
Note: ticket price no longer includes free local transport Organiser: Messe Dusseldorf Website:
www.k-online.de
www.compoundingworld.com
Use the following links to go direct to essential show information:
➤ K2025 hotel booking
➤ K2025 online ticket purchase ➤ K2025 exhibitor search ➤ K2025 iOS/Android apps
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