PETpla.net Insider 04 / 2021

imprint EDITORIAL PUBLISHER Alexander Büchler, Managing Director HEAD OFFICE heidelberg business media GmbH Vangerowstraße 33 69115 Heidelberg, Germany phone: +49 6221-65108-0 fax: +49 6221-65108-28 [email protected] EDITORIAL Kay Barton Heike Fischer Gabriele Kosmehl Michael Maruschke Ruari McCallion Waldemar Schmitke Anthony Withers WikiPETia.info [email protected] MEDIA CONSULTANTS Martina Hirschmann [email protected] Johann Lange-Brock [email protected] phone: +49 6221-65108-0 fax: +49 6221-65108-28 LAYOUT AND PREPRESS EXPRIM Werbeagentur | exprim.de Matthias Gaumann READER SERVICES Till Kretner [email protected] PRINT Chroma Druck Eine Unternehmung der Limberg-Druck GmbH Danziger Platz 6 67059 Ludwigshafen, 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 PETplanet Insider Vol. 22 No. 04/21 www.petpla.net The Chinaplas trade fair has closed its doors. After the cancellation of the event last year, the industry was looking forward to this year’s fair. It is the first trade fair in the plastics industry to take place as a face-to-face event post-pandemic. New to the event was the new location in Shenzhen, near Hong Kong. The fair now takes place alternately with Hong Kong and Shanghai. Guangzhou is history. As is well known, China is already well on the way to containing the pandemic. So the fair was able to take place in pretty much the usual conditions. In order to keep the pandemic under control, the country has largely isolated itself from the outside world, as is shown by the number of foreign visitors which fell dramatically from 42,005 in 2019 to 2,363 visitors in 2021. To compensate for the predictable decline in foreign visitors, the fair organisers set up a streaming platform. 363,000 users took part over the 4 days. However, the fair was able to increase the very high proportion of local visitors from 121,309 visitors in 2019 to 149,771 visitors in 2021, thus maintaining the total number of visitors at a high level despite the adverse circumstances. The next event will take place in Shanghai in April 2022, and I am already looking forward to visiting it. Yours sincerely, Alexander Büchler Dear readers,