Extrusion International 4-2017

20 Extrusion International 4/2017 INDUSTRY NEWS ChinaPlas-2017 – the key to the Chinese and Asian markets The exhibition ChinaPlas 2017 was held from the 16th to the 19th of May, in Guangzhou, on the territory of China Import & Export Fair Complex. At this exhibition, which Ad- sale Exhibition Services Ltd ran for the 31st time, more than 3,400 companies fromall over theWorlddemonstrated their products to more than 155,000 visitors. Our correspondent shared with us some of his impressions of this event. When preparing to go to Guangzhou to yet another ChinaP- las exhibition visitors usually check whether they’ve got their umbrella. But this time the Tropic of Cancer was merciful and there was no need to contend with tropical rain… Traditionally what makes ChinaPlas unique is that it is the most notable event both for domestic trade in China and for international trade in polymer equipment and raw materials. Several pavilions are taken up almost exclusively by Chinese products, and they are very crowded. Representatives of Chi- nese processing enterprises enquire about local equipment and raw materials prices, and these are quite affordable. The majority of exhibition areas was taken up by ‘foreigners’ ex- hibiting their more sophisticated, high-tech goods, where it was also very lively: advanced Chinese companies (and there are many of these) want to buy expensive innovative equip- ment, as do numerous visitors from abroad. Besides really enormous numbers of exhibitors from main- land China, the following were well represented: Taiwan (132 stands), Korea, Japan and India. Among Western companies Germany led as to the number of exhibitors (138 stands). There were numerous stands of companies from Italy, Swit- zerland, Austria, UK and the US. Amongwell-known foreign exhibitors of extrusion equipment at ChinaPlas-2017, one could mention, for example, Krauss- Maffei Berstorff, Bruckner, Buss, Entex, PlasMec, Tecnomatic, Zambello, Davis-Standard. What is characteristic is that many manufacturers of fairly expensive European controlling and automation extrusion equipment were represented by im- pressive expositions (Inoex, Sikora, Zumbach, Process Control, Kundig). Probably, these companies see good prospects for the sale of their equipment in China. It should also be noted that exhibitors from Europe or Taiwan were frequently represented not only by sales managers but by company heads and even owners, which clearly shows the large share of China’s orders in their portfolios. For numerous foreign exhibitors China is the largest and the most important buyer of their products. As for Chinese exporters of equipment it is noticeable that many of them, especially the major ones, are gradually be- coming international players. The quality of their products is improving, professional marketing after sales support is being put in place, the external appearance of their equipment is more attractive as is its ergonomics. Chinese and Taiwanese companies were in particular interested in visitors from India At the exhibition our publishing house VM Verlag concluded a mutually beneficial partnership agreement with Dalian Plastics Research Institute (China)