Surpassed the expectations in the K'2013
The increase in the activity of the industry of the plastics during the last months put of self-evident also in the past edition of the
The K, the big international fair of the plastics, never leaves to anybody indifferent. The true is that it is an oxygen cylinder for the business and, in any case, for the spirit, because in the K the businesses palpan, sees that they exist. The enclosure ferial of Düsseldorf, the whole city, are a shelter of optimism for the less believer, for the prejudiced by the hard economic situation, for which do not see this light at the end of the tunnel of which want to convince us. In K smells a lot to plastic, smells to optimism, to business. The plastics, in spite of everything, constitute an industry with a big future by in front and like this can observe in this fair, each three years.
Along the fair and especially after the same, when doing balance, the display units, in general terms, valued very positively the fair, the quantity and quality of the visits received and the possibilities to realizar real businesses from these contacts.
Of course Düsseldorf is the space in which all the providers of this industry present his innovations and converts therefore in the ideal stage for the professionals of the sector that want to realizar improvements in his processes of production or tackle new niches of market. In fact, as they inform the organisers of the K, the innovations no only were admired, but they realizar a lot of operations in situ, signed a lot of agreements. Ulrich Reifenhäuser, president of the contest, has signalled: “A lot of customers are increasing his installations and are investing in new technologies to improve his competitiveness to world-wide level. We think that after the fair go to produce a lot of businesses and expect a growth continued of our sector”.
The figure of display units rose until the 3.200, that received to some 218.000 increasingly international visitors (of 120 countries), more skilled and with greater capacity of decision that in other occasions, as they could appreciate the own display units. 58% of the visitors was foreign.
Went precisely the visitors foráneos those that more put of self-evident his intention to invest, attending to the fair with ideas very concrete for his investments.
Nevertheless, the figure of visitors diminished mildly regarding the previous edition of 2010, year in that they attended to the appointment 222.486 professionals.
As it fit to expect, the proportion of Asian visitors was the greater, with some 30.000 participants. Of the different geographic zones of Asia, India was the country that greater number of visitors contributed, while the ones of China, Indonesia, Iran, Japan and Taiwan grew notably.
Also increased the visitors of United States and Canada, with 8.100 professionals, 1.300 more than in the previous edition. Of Latin America attended to the appointment 11.000 visitors, practically the same quantity that in 2010, with experts of Brazil, Mexico, Argentina and Colombia, especially.
Although still in low figures, the visitors of South Africa continue going up, in this occasion until the 2.000.
And regarding Europe, headed the smart Low Countries (8.000), followed of France, Belgium, United Kingdom and Italy, with an increase of the pertinent of Poland, Czech Republic and Hungary.
Of all they, some two thirds were managerial of high or half level and more than the half have in his companies capacity of decision or at least a paper determinant to the hour to take relative decisions to investments. The proportion of visitors of the investigation, the development and the design also was considerable.
They dominate the machines
Many of the new products launched during the K contained solutions for the saving of resources and with the energetic efficiency between his aims, which indicates the will of the sector to manufacture products of respectful form with the environingingment and at the same time profitable.
The group of exposed products more numerous was the one of the machinery and installations, with 1.900 display units, that also were the main point of attention of the visitors. Almost two thirds of these last indicated his interest by the innovations of this sector, while 42% signalled the raw materials like first point of interest and 22% the products semielaborados and technical pieces of plastic and rubber (the participants in the survey could give multiple answers).
The visitors came from of numerous sectors, like the construction and the manufacture of trucks, the packs and packaging, the electrical and electronic sector and the agriculture.
218.000 visitors interested by the industry of the plastics.
The special exhibition 'The plastics move the world' showed the contribution of the plastics to a life in movement. The aim was to show his help in the increasing surroundings of the mobility, as well as in the emotional field, for example, in the art and in the design. They treated subjects of future, related with the demographic growth, the world-wide needs of power and the climatic change.
The transformers, satisfied
The initiative 'Blue Competence' of the association VDMA also obtained a good answer and there were a lot of discussions with the subject energetic efficiency like central point. Also it was very positive the initiative 'The blue horse' in the square Heinrich-Heine, so much between the inhabitants of the city as in the media. A lot of visitors appreciated the fact that the sector was present with sustainable solutions for the processed and recycled of plastics.
Another satisfied sector after the fair was the one of the German transformers, grouped in the association Gesamtverband Kunststoff-verarbeitende Industrie and. V. – GKV. In opinion of his managers the fair has generated new impulses for the industry of the transformation of plastics in Germany, that could realizar a lot of international contacts, also in the case of the middle-sized companies. The exposed products more interesting for these transformers were the new products and designs of pieces, as well as superficial finishings with visual properties, tactile or hygienic special and plastics reinforced in applications for products of massive consumption.
