CHINAPLAS reveals top materials and technologies

Meeting the challenges of the new era in plastics and rubber manufacturing, CHINAPLAS 2019 - which runs from 21 May to 24 May in Guangzhou attracted over 3,600 leading exhibitors from all over the world. With an exhibition space occupying more than 250,000 square meters at the China Import and Export Fair Complex, Pazhou, Guangzhou, the show presents to the numerous pioneering technologies that are helping plastics and rubber companies to stand out and grow. 

 

Artificial intelligence, 5G wireless networks, big data, the Internet of Things (IoT), facial recognition technology, curved monitors, foldable screens - these terms have been catching our eye over the past year while giving rise to new materials, new equipment, and new opportunities. As plastics is an indispensable part of human life and technological development, new plastic materials now find use in a mind-boggling array of high-end applications, enabling creative and imaginative product design. At CHINAPLAS, more than 180 cutting-edge, hot technologies that are being revealed for the first time in the world or Asia. A vast number of both Chinese and multinational exhibitors takes advantage of this event to display high-performance plastic materials and intelligent manufacturing solutions, to help propel these industries forward. 

 

 

This year, the exhibition lists 10 new materials highlights and 10 processing technologies highlights that will surely define the future of plastics manufacturing.  

 

(1)  Fiber reinforced composites

(2)  Lightweight materials for new energy vehicles

(3)  Highly functional materials for 5G telecommunications

(4)  Graphene-based electrically conductive plastics

(5)  Medical grade plastics & silicon rubber with clean, transparent, chemical-resistant properties

(6)  High-performance thermoplastic elastomer

(7)  Degradable, bio-based and recyclable materials

(8)  Additives to reduce VOC emission, change color & brightness

(9)  Liquid additives & masterbatches

(10) New eco-friendly and specialty plastics for 3D printing

 

(1)  Industry 4.0, digital manufacturing solutions

(2)  Cost-effective and high-quality small batch, diversified production

(production of ultra-thin film for capacitor, battery separator film, touch-screen film, etc.)

(3)  Automatic all-in-one machines

(4)  LSR injection molding technology

(5)  Multi-layer injection/ multi-layer co-extrusion technologies

(6)  All electric extrusion blow molding machines

(7)  Specialized high-quality film technology 

(8)  In-mold decoration technologies, combination of PU in-mold coating and flexible manufacturing technology

(9)  Recycling Technologies (covering whole recycling production solutions - sorting, shredding, washing, pelletizing, etc.)

(10) Extrusion machinery for medical industry (production of precision tube, infusion, dialysis, drainage tube)