K2025 | EXHIBITION PREVIEW
Moulders’ guide to 2025 Part 1: Machinery and ancillaries
The world’s largest, most international plastics trade fair opens next month, in Dusseldorf in Germany. K2025 will host the latest innovations in plastics materials, machinery and services. However, it’s a huge event that’s best approached with a plan: our pre-event coverage will help you get the most from your time there. In this issue, we look at some of the planned introductions in machinery and ancillaries that are likely to interest injection moulding companies. Over the next nine pages you can find details on some of the latest developments in moulding machines, dies and control systems – as well as a variety of ancillary products. In our next issue, we will present details of new materials – in- cluding resins, compounds, plasticisers and pigments.
Messe Dusseldorf, which organises
the show, says the plastics industry has faced a “global crisis” since K2022. In response, it says K2025 will showcase a “plethora of new and further techno- logical developments” – as digitalisa- tion and artificial intelligence (AI) emerge as key themes.
Machine-to-machine communication
has long been an issue in mechanical engineering. Connected machines have been available on the market for several years, providing a large volume of process data. At K2022, a key discus- sion topic between machine manufac- turers, processors and end customers was who ultimately owns this data. The EU Data Act has provided clarity here, as it obliges machine manufacturers to make data generated during operation available to the machine user in a simple and comprehensible machine- readable form. OPC UA standards, which have become widespread in recent years, are ideal for this purpose, says Messe Dusseldorf. The advantages of such connected machines are also increasingly being recognised by customers. Developments in this area go hand in hand with increasing demands of this kind. This development is being given a
boost by AI – with several solutions and products expected at K2025. Examples include: automatic design and process optimisation; predictive maintenance; and optical quality control. Further technical innovations will be seen in the field of ‘digital twins’, which
can store machine data and informa- tion in a structured, machine-readable way over the entire service life. They are particularly suitable for fulfilling the requirements of the Digital Product Passport (DPP), which was introduced with the EU Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR) coming into force in July 2024, says Messe Dusseldorf. 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 July/August issue of Injection World. The Injection World and AMI magazines team will be at the show for the full eight days and will be gathering information for our post-event coverage in the Winter edition. 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.injectionworld.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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