International Plastics News for Asia

This issue carries reports on two major trade exhibitions that took place in April - NPE 2012 and CHINAPLAS 2012. These two exhibitions have taken their own special places in the global plastics and rubber industry because of the large number of exhibitors presenting their products and the volume of visitors in each edition
This year’s NPE was held for the first time in Florida where the expanded venue allowed for on-site demonstrations of more machines. For CHINAPLAS, this year’s edition breached the 100,000 visitor attendance and launched many side events for the first time.
Another show this month, the Manufacturing Expo, has brought Thailand into the spotlight as ASEAN’s industrial hub. The show gathers in one venue five industries, and attracts a large gathering of exhibitors from all around the world.
A report on the growing role of plastics in power generation brings into focus the many research and development efforts undertaken by companies in this area to develop material solutions that would advance and improve the extraction and delivery of power.