In the final pre-event briefing before the K2010 doors open on Wednesday, organizer Messe Dusseldorf said that the number of exhibitors will be down by just 12 compared to the last show in 2007 event – 3,102 exhibitors this year from 3,114 – representing a total exhibitor area of 164,125 square meters.

As at past K fairs, machinery and equipment producers account for the majority of exhibitors - 1,911 - followed by 635 raw materials producers, 271 producers of semi-finished products and technical parts and 185 service providers.

The number of German exhibitors is down slightly from 1,076 at K2007 to 1,131 at K 2010. But domestic companies still account for the largest share – 40 percent – whether measured by number or floor space.

However, 2,026 exhibitors – 60 percent of the total – come from outside Germany. Italy takes the lead among overseas countries, with 413 exhibitors, followed by China with 247. Taiwan at 139 takes third position, slightly ahead of France at 126, which is in turn ahead of India at 122 and 110 from the United States.

Well over 200,000 visitors are expected to visit the show - 242,000 visitors attended the K2007 event.

Speaking in his role as president of the K2010 exhibitors advisory council, Ulrich Reifenhäuser spoke at the briefing about the difficult times the industry has seen since the 2007 event. “We had this terrible crisis, the biggest catastrophe that the machinery industry has ever experienced,” he said.

However, Reifenhäuser said he remained optimistic and predicted the long-term average 9 percent growth rate of the plastics industry seen since 1950 will not be broken by the recent recession. “Readiness for change is much greater in a period of crisis,” he said.

Despite short-time working in the plastics machinery industry, German government measures have ensured that experienced staff are on hand to handle the strong growth now being experienced, Reifenhäuser said.

Reifenhäuser’s growth comments have since been confirmed by the German VDMA plastics and rubber machinery association, of which Ulrich Reifenhäuser is also chairman, which raised its forecast for sector sales growth in 2010 from 11 to 15 percent.

Meanwhile, Messe Düsseldorf CEO Werner Matthias Dornscheidt shared some key show data at the briefing. He said some 5,000 vehicles and 20,000 people are involved in the build up of the fair, which has seen 3,000 trucks, including 31 exceptional heavy transporters, on the showground.

Despite 23 hotel ships moored along the Rhein, Dornscheidt said rooms in hotels and private quarters have once again been largely taken up. He also said that Messe Düsseldorf has successfully managed to put a stop to a number of intermediaries that had been buying up hotel room space and selling it at twice the normal price.

Dornscheidt added that local hotels should only be applying modest premiums over their regular rates. “It is excessive if you have to pay 500 euros for a night in the Novotel,” he said.

Hotels, restaurants and taxi companies will, of course, benefit from the extra trade that a quarter of a million visitors will bring to the city of Düsseldorf. Local public transport operators will not benefit financially, however, as local transport costs are included with fair entrance tickets.

Starlinger combine FMS technology and woven fabric .To combine these two successful concepts - on the one hand, the FFS-filling technology for bulk solids, the other packing materials from woven fabric - this challenge Dow, Starlinger and Haver & Boecker have taken on together.

Woven fabric is a packaging material stretched plastic tape. Woven fabric bags are insensitive to pressure, fracture and buckling. Even if they are moved by hook or damaged by nails, they break not occur and the valuable content is in the bag. In addition, woven fabric, in comparison to conventional films very thin, making it easy, but is still robust and durable - and with low raw material consumption. What is more, that it is completely recyclable.




The FMS technology (Form, Fill & Seal - Form, Fill & Seal) is a fully-automated, cost-effective packaging method for powder, granules, flakes and many other bulk goods. On the filling machine are made of plastic film tube endless bags that are immediately filled with the product and then sealed. The top of the filled bag and the bottom of the next bag to be welded simultaneously. The great advantage of the FFS method is that the bags are closed by welding. FFS machines do not need needles (which can easily break) or yarn (must be actual power again and again). As a result, no thread groups mingle with the medium, and the bags are hermetically sealed, because there are no stitch holes.

To date, it was not possible to use tissue from plastic strips on FFS-filling. Through joint Abstrengungen it is now the first woven fabric that was produced on machinery from Starlinger-Dow pellets to use for FFS-filling of Haver & Boecker. The so-called "woven * FFS" technology is specifically aimed at bottling plants in the chemical industry and building material and food industries.

The advantages of woven sacks * FFS include:
Robust but lightweight packaging material
Protection of the packaged goods from all around the sealed, waterproof packaging
Thanks to the fully automatic FFS machines from Haver & Boecker, the control activities are limited to roles and format changes.
Optimized bags: constant monitoring of the bulk density, and adjust the bag length.
Clean blind surfaces and greater safety during transport due to compact filled bags.
The lower consumption of raw materials helps to save resources and money.

In the development of "woven * FFS" Dow, Starlinger and Haver & Boecker claims to have paid particular attention to making the switch from PET to PE woven fabric for the bottlers as easy as possible. Customers who already have FFS systems of Haver & Boecker, should have to make any major conversions. To take advantage of woven fabric, a few minor changes to the FFS system was needed - and simply using a different material roll.

Even companies that have processed so far, due to customer and market requirements, tissue and could therefore not use FFS bottling plants, will now have the opportunity to take advantage of this fully automatic, cost-packaging concept. The high production capacity of the facilities and the time and cost savings in operation and maintenance would mean that the investment pay off in this new system in a short time.

The new packaging concept is presented for the first time at K 2010.

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World Plastic Industry :-

On the basis of our study, following are some of the notable facts:


    * India's plastic industry is about 0.5% of India's GDP.

    * The export of plastic products yields about 1% of the domestic exports.

    * 50% turnover of the plastic industry is derived from the small scale companies where it has a large presence

    * Production of the plastic provides employment to an estimate of about 0.4 million people in the country

    * The processing of the plastic products involve approximately Rs 100 billion as an investment in the form of fixed assets

    * 20% of the industry turnover comes from small scale enterprises

    * Only 10 to 15% of the total market players can be categorized as medium scale enterprises

Type Of Plastic Products:-

Some of the major plastic products manufactured and exported from India can be categorized under the following headings:-

Raw Materials like PVC, polypropylene, polyethylene, polystyrene etc.

Packaging Materials like a range of plastic sheeting and films, pouches,

crates, bottles, containers, barrels, cans etc

Films like Polyester film, multilayer films, photo films etc

Consumer Goods like toothbrushes, cleaning brushes, hair brushes, nail

and cosmetic brushes, combs, molded furniture (chairs,

tables, etc.) House ware, kitchenware, and many such

other durables.

Writing Instruments like Pens, ball pens, markers, sign pens, refills, etc.

Travel ware like molded luggage, soft luggage, a range of bags like school

bags / ladies handbags, wallets, etc.

Water Storage Tanks Toys and Games Engineering Plastics

Electrical Accessories like cellphones, dryer machines etc.

Safety helmets

Sanitary Fittings

Construction Materials like PVC profiles, doors, windows, etc.

An Overview:-

The Indian plastic industry is growing at a fast pace. However, with an increasing cost-effective liberalization competition this industry is expected to increase considerably.

To survive the growing competition, the following revolutionizes need to be adopted by our plastic manufacturers and suppliers:

    * Cost reduction by adopting more radical methods and approaches

    * Putting more stress on the processing stage to reduce time and cost associated with the manufacturing of the final products

Although, the per capita expenditure of plastic products in India is well below the world average, the country will continue to be one of the largest resources of plastic products.

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The plastic processing plants in Malaysia, see their future in selling high-quality products, such as modern packaging materials and technical parts. This must be invested in new equipment, which is difficult given the tight financial situation. In addition to set higher prices for primary products and electricity in the industry. In production and exporters of plastics and synthetic resins characterized in 2010 from a recovery.

Malaysia\'s plastics industry includes over 1,450 manufacturers with 85,000 employees. The majority of the company is considered a small to medium, and many are owner-managed. Only just over half are found mainly in local hands. The industry posted 2009 sales of 14.6 billion ringgit (RM; about 3.0 billion euros, 1 euro = 4.91 RM - annual average 2009) and contributes approximately 3% of total turnover in the manufacturing sector. It is powered by an advanced petrochemical industry with raw materials.

During 2009 to cope with a decline of almost 10% was in 2010, the signs of growth. Especially for export, the outlook has been estimated by the Malaysian Plastics Manufacturers Association (MPMA) good. For the development of plastics demand at home and abroad are mainly due to the highly cyclical consumer electronics, automotive and construction industry. In particular, the first two had taken the difficult global recession. The major exports of films and packaging in the industrial countries had fallen to crisis.

Main features of the Malaysian plastics industry in billions of RM,% change year on year (Source: MPMA) *)

The industry is highly export-dependent. In the past decade, annual growth in exports 15-20% are recorded. The share of exports in the turnover increased from 40% in the late 90\'s to last nearly 60%. Despite the recovery in demand, particularly in the field of food packaging in the second Half of 2009 decreased exports of plastic products for the full year by 10.8% to 8.3 billion RM. These were imports valued at 5 billion to RM, which failed to 9.3% lower than last year. Primarily packaging materials were exported, for example, flexible films, sheets, bags, bottles and containers.

The main customers are the European Union, Japan and the PRC. Industry insiders expect the future especially from the Asian region a dynamic demand, the debt crisis in the EU could however provide for restraint. With the implementation of the Asean Free Trade Area (AFTA) will open up new markets for Malaysian plastics exporters in the participating countries, which in turn will also benefit from the reduction in import duties to zero since 1.1.10. In total, the MPMA greater opportunities than risks for the producers, even when the import pressure especially for synthetic resins should initially be high. A challenge for the producers themselves could develop prior to price increases for gas, which comes both as a fuel and as raw material for raw materials used.

The Malaysian factories made in 2009 about 37% of their goods in film extrusion and 35% with injection molding. The extrusion of pipes and profiles made 7% and 6% from the blow molding manufacturing. The main segments of the plastics industry are the manufacturers of packaging (40%), components for electrical / electronic industry (23%) and household goods (22%) and the automotive industry (9%). The rest of the production attributable to the construction industry and agriculture.

Growth opportunities are mainly seen in the field of packaging, including those with multi-layer material as well as in packaging for convenience foods and those that increase the shelf life of foods. The trend for weight saving in the automotive industry provides increasing demand for high-quality plastic parts. A growing challenge is setting new standards concerning environmental protection, safety and health, to be followed by the industry.

At a low level in the view of the MPMA the R & D and design efforts. To be able to develop, produce higher quality goods, and sell under its own brand, firms must also invest in their equipment. Only then will the long-term holdings are against competition from low wage countries. lacks some of the smaller family farms are often in capital and market experience to implement the modernization. Connoisseur of the industrial sector therefore see a need for consolidation in the local market - for example through mergers - as well as the need to cooperate with multinational companies.

The authorized investment volume in 2009 to 771 million at RM, but registered by the competent authority Malaysian Industrial Development Authority (MIDA) with 42 individual projects about a third less than last year. About 80% will flow into the packaging segment (production of flexible films, sheets and bags or blow-molded bottles and containers). The great majority of the investments it was new projects, foreign engagement standing for nearly 70% of the total.

The consumption of synthetic resins in 2009 fell by around 4% to 1.7 million tonnes, as the user industries are electronics and automotive less inquired. The production declined to 1.8 million tonnes, while exports were virtually unchanged at 0.8 million tonnes. A major problem for the industry are the rising prices of synthetic resin, according to the MPMA have these last four years more than doubled. The energy prices have risen, and further increases are expected. Main types of resins used in Malaysia are polyethylene, polypropylene, polyvinyl chloride and polystyrene. Engineering plastics such as polyamides and polycarbonates must however still largely imported.

The main producers of synthetic resins include BASF, Eastman Chemicals, Industrial Resins, Malayan Electro-Chemical Industry (MECI), Petlin Malaysia, Malaysia Petrochemicals, Polyethylene Malaysia, Malaysia Polypropylene, Titanium PP Polymers, Toray Plastics and Vinyl Chloride Malaysia. Usually it is a joint venture of international chemical companies, national oil and gas company Petronas.

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