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CHINAPLAS 2015 ends successfully
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HINAPLAS 2015 closed successfully on 23 May 2015 successfully, with the no of visitors surpassing the last exhibition held in Guangzhou in 2013, despite the bad weather that caused flight and train disruptions during the show period.
The heavy downpours could not cool down the determination of visitors to come to the show. The Asia's largest and the world's second largest plastics and rubber trade fair held on 20-23 May attracted a total of 128,264 visitors. According to reports the visitors peaked on the second day, having 49,732 visitors attended. As CHINAPLAS has been well-recognized by the plastics and rubber industries as well as their downstream sectors globally, the show this year welcomed 35,090 overseas visitors, representing 27.36% of the total. Visitors at ChinaPlas were reported from 137 countries and regions with India, Hong Kong, South Korea, Taiwan, Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand, Iran, Malaysia and Japan as the top ten origins. As compared with the show
held in Guangzhou in 2013, the show registered a 12.41% growth in visitors, while overseas visitors rose by 14.04%. CHINAPLAS 2015 also marked new records in the show scale in terms of exhibition area and no of exhibitors over the past editions. This year, 3,275 exhibitors from 39 countries and regions participated in the show, of which over 700 exhibitors joined CHINAPLAS for the first time, representing over 20% of total exhibitors. The show also marked unprecedented exhibition area, with floor space over 240,000 sqm, up 9% compared to last CHINAPLAS held in Guangzhou in 2013, with the exhibitor number up more than 10%. Ada Leung, General Manager of Adsale Exhibition Services Ltd., the organizer of CHINAPLAS, said, "The majority of our exhibitors are very happy with the visitor quality and their participation results. Despite the heavy rain during the show, the fairground was busy with business networking and technological
exchange activities. At the same time, we have received many positive feedbacks from the visitors that the technology levels of exhibits and the quality of the show have kept on rising". She added, "As the show organizer, we are very glad to see that the global plastics and rubber industries have fully recognized CHINAPLAS as an effective platform for technology and trade promotion, and for the setting of market trends." During the CHINAPLAS 2015 a two-day conference on “New Era Manufacturing: Innovations in Medical Device Manufacture and Market Trends” on 21-22 May, in which 9 medical plastics experts presented the latest developments in the area of medical plastics. Mr. Mike Maczuzak, the President of Smartshape Design, delivered his speech on Medical Device Design for Human Variability focussing on innovative uses of plastics technologies on medical device designs, and inspired medical device designers to create such new ways to better accommodate
27• June 2015 • Plastics News