“Carbon neutrality” & “digitalisation” featured at Chinaplas 2022
Under the theme of “New Era· New Potential· Innovation for Sustainability”, Chinaplas 2022 will return to the National Exhibition and Convention Center in Hongqiao, Shanghai, during April 25 – 28, 2022. More than 4,600 companies have reserved booths, which reflects strong market demand. Exhibitors are actively developing new products to be displayed at the trade fair in response to the rapid changes and new market demands.
There is a great demand among companies for solutions for low energy consumption and highly efficient production. Environmental management is evolving from “end-of-pipe” control to “source” control, process optimisation, end-of-pipe treatment and waste recycling. Improved environmental management is increasing the demand for environmentally friendly materials such as bioplastics, biodegradable materials, easily recycled and recycled plastics and green additives. In addition, fully degradable film blowing machines, winders and recycling technologies are also in demand in the market. With the emergence of new energies, emerging industries such as photovoltaics, wind power, stored energy, electric vehicles and hydrogen vehicles are gaining momentum and will create demand for new materials.
With the green and low-carbon technology new track opened up, Chinaplas 2022 will present a huge and diversified amount of innovative solutions to help different companies to explore the development. “Green” elements will be pervasive in all halls, especially Hall 5.2, which will primarily focus on environmental protection, such as eco-friendly products, green additives, in addition to the Bioplastics Zone and the Recycled Plastics Zone.
“Digital and intelligent high-tech development”
The evolving green and low carbon development renders digital tech a more pressing need in support of the plastics and rubber industries. Advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence, Internet of Things, and big data can be very useful in real-time monitoring and regulatory algorithms of energy consumption data. The aims are to reduce raw material consumption, improve energy efficiency, reduce carbon emissions, and thus promote production in a green and energy-saving way. Digital transformation is an inevitable direction for industries, state the organisers of Chinaplas. The development of modern automation, intelligent and digital technologies have been catalyzed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Remote monitoring and management can help engineers to troubleshoot production failures even from thousands of miles away. Sophisticated automated and precision production equipment assists enterprises in addressing the shortage of manpower and unstable product quality. Automated monitoring and quality control processes can allow continuous production; improve production quality and efficiency, and lower costs. As the digital economic tide sweeps the world, it further highlights the importance and value of automated, information-based, and intelligent production methods with flexible manpower, and unmanned and intelligent production methods. There is a wealth of potentials to be tapped. Chinaplas 2022 will gather innovative, practical, digital and intelligent solutions such as robots, all electric injection molding technology, automated optical inspection systems, ERP, MES, IoT, etc., to help companies seize the ample opportunities.
