PETpla.net Insider 05 / 2015

imprint EDITORIAL PUBLISHER Alexander Büchler, Managing Director HEAD OFFICE heidelberg business media GmbH Häusserstr. 36 69115 Heidelberg, Germany phone: +49 6221-65108-0 fax: +49 6221-65108-28 info@hbmedia.net EDITORIAL Heike Fischer Gabriele Kosmehl Kay Barton Michael Maruschke Ruari McCallion Waldemar Schmitke Wolfgang von Schroeter Anthony Withers MEDIA CONSULTANTS Martina Hirschmann hirschmann@hbmedia.net Johann Lange-Brock lange-brock@hbmedia.net phone: +49 6221-65108-0 fax: +49 6221-65108-28 France, Italy, UK Elisabeth Maria Köpke phone: +49 6201-878925 fax: +49 6201-878926 koepke@hbmedia.net LAYOUT AND PREPRESS EXPRIM Werbeagentur Matthias Gaumann | www.exprim.de READER SERVICES Till Kretner reader@hbmedia.net PRINT Chroma Druck & Verlag GmbH Werkstr. 25 67354 Römerberg Germany WWW www.hbmedia.net | w ww.petpla.net PETplanet insider ISSN 1438-9459 is published 10 times a year. This publication is sent to qualified subscribers (1-year subscription 149 EUR, 2-year subscription 289 EUR, Young professionals’ sub- scription 99 EUR. Magazines will be dispatched to you by airmail). Not to be reproduced in any form without permission from the publisher. Note: The fact that product names may not be identified as trademarks is not an indication that such names are not registered trademarks. 3 PET planet insider Vol. 16 No. 05/15 www.petpla.net dear readers, The crowds of attendees and the clamour of working equipment that filled the giant exhibit halls at NPE 2015 told the story better than numbers, but now there are statistics to make it official: NPE 2015 was the largest show in NPE history. The data shows NPE 2015 attracted 2,029 exhibitors over 104,813m² of exhibit space-exceeding the previous records of 2,009 exhibitors and 1,041,000 net 96,712m². In addition, registered attendance for NPE 2015 was 65,810 - 19% greater than three years ago. By comparison to this, the last K-Fair in Düsseldorf covered a net area of 171,000m² and registered some 217,000 turnstile movements or approx. 87,000 visitors (average duration of visit 2.5 days). International participation also set new NPE records. Nearly 44% of exhibiting companies and 26% of registrants came from outside the United States. This finally confirms that the decision to move the NPE from Chicago to Orlando was the right one. The target group from Central and South America now feel that they are also getting their fair share of attention. Nearly 5,000 registrants were from Latin America alone. All the names from the PET sector, great and small, were represented, not every company with a huge PET presentation. Milacron uses the fair to showcase its old and new PET activities and Husky has long regarded the NPE as a kind of in-house exhibition and pulled out all the stops. After its eventful journey, our Editourmobil had finally made it to the fair from the harbour in Halifax. And so, for PETplanet Insider too, it was a pleasant family get-together on the North American continent. We shall look forward to seeing whether this highly positive development is likely to be continued at the NPE to be staged from May 7-11, 2018. Yours Alexander Büchler