CHINAPLAS 2013: Intensified focus on sustainable materials

CHINAPLAS 2013, Asia’s biggest trade exhibition and world’s third largest show for the plastics and rubber industry, took off on a very positive note in Guangzhou, China. The show recorded 114,103 visitors from 20-23 May. Of the total, 30,770 are overseas visitors.

This 27th edition is the largest ever edition as it breached past records in terms of exhibition area, number of exhibitors, pavilions and machines on the floor. A total exhibition area of 220,000sqm was set aside for the 2,900 exhibitors and 14 pavilions. More than 3,200 sets of advanced machines were also demonstrated. This year, the show filled up 25 halls with 11 theme zones and 14 country / region pavilions.

Aside  from  the  launch  of  highly efficient, energy-saving technologies and machineries, this year’s edition focused on the importance of sustainable materials.  In an era where rapid urbanisation and infrastructure improvement occur, three key plastic building materials. such as plastic profiles, pipes and panels are entering a period of steady growth in China. Other new-type  plastic  building  materials, such  as  plastic  windows/doors,  high-molecular waterproof materials, thermal insulating materials, solar diaphragm, plastic reinforced tile, wall support parts and building heating plastic pipes, offer a full range of green building features from light weight, low energy consumption in production and application to outstanding thermal and electric resistance to speed up the revolution of green buildings.

This  year,  the  theme  focused  on novel  and  environmentally-friendly plastic construction materials which are aesthetically pleasing and practical. The concurrent event, named “Archi-Light”,  made use of plastic building materials of various light transmittance in combination with the visual effect on buildings to exhibit the light transmittance of plastics and thus accomplish the target of less energy consumption.  “Archi-Light” consisted of three parts with the first part “Archi-Light Concept House”, a future building erected at exhibition site sponsored by Saudi Basic Industries Corp (SABIC). In this exhibit, the organiser used SABIC’s construction materials with outstanding light transmittance feature to set up an energy-saving futuristic home with high light transmittance. Also, they integrated some other environment-friendly elements to meet the standard for low-carbon buildings.  It was the first time for SABIC to participate in such a large scale plastics building materials promotion event in Asia, which is different from its past participation format in CHINAPLAS.

Aside from construction and building materials, CHINAPLAS also recognised the rising market and bigger “Die & Mould Zone” in order to cope with buyers needs from different industries and to serve as a distinguished comprehensive sourcing platform.

Both the production quantity and quality of the manufacturing industry of China have been under a rapid growth during the 12th Five-year Plan, especially for the automotive and electronics manufacturing industries which have been developing at a fast pace in China and further enhanced the domestic enterprises’ requirements on mould and die technologies and manufacturing equipment. Over 200 Chinese and international exhibitors participated, including numerous well-known mould players, e.g. LKM, Push, Sino Mould, Jing Cheng Mould, Mold Masters, Yudo, Hotsys, Mould-Tip, Incoe, Keda, Sure Hot Runner, Carl Zeiss, Huida and Hexagon Metrology, etc. There were also pavilions organised by Hong Kong Mould & Die Council and Taiwan Mold & Die Industry Association.

The next edition of CHINAPLAS is scheduled on 23 – 26 April 2014 at theZoom Huarache 2K4 Kobe