CWE/PRWE | EXHIBITION REVIEW
More than 4,000 visitors attended AMI’s first exhibitions, held in Germany last month. We take a look back at the focused industry event – with highlights relevant to film and sheet extruders
Focused industry events get off to a flying start
Compounding World Expo and Plastics Recycling World Exhibition – the co-located, focused plastics industry events organised by AMI – made their successful debuts last month, attracting 184 exhibitors and 4,024 visitors to Messe Essen in Germany in late June. The events boasted a large international audience: 42% of attendees came from Germany, 50% from the rest of Europe, and 8% from outside of Europe – some from as far afield as South Africa, Brazil, China and South Korea. “We are delighted with the response to our first
exhibitions, which were well supported by the plastics recycling and compounding industries,” said Rita Andrews, head of exhibitions at AMI. Exhibitors reported having many meetings with high-quality contacts on both days of the event. More than 60% of exhibitors have already reserved
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space for the next European versions of the shows, which will return to Messe Essen on 17-18 June 2020. Many have also booked stands at the first US versions of the event – which will take place in Cleveland, Ohio, USA on 8-9 May 2019. Many exhibitors highlighted the focused nature
of the Compounding World Expo, with Dagmar Kirchof, marketing manager at Leistritz Extrusion- stechnik, commenting: “The expo is very focused with everything key to the industry in one hall.” The targeted focus also helped deliver high quality visitors. Bernhard Gabauer, segment development manager for plastics at Bühler, said: “I received more quality leads in one day of this event than a whole week at NPE.” The three conference theatres at the Essen
shows attracted capacity crowds of up to 250 people each. A series of presentations covered a
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Main image: Visitors doing business at the first Com- pounding World Expo and Plastics Recycling World Exhibi- tion in Essen in Germany last month
PHOTO: AMI
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