imprint EDITORIAL PUBLISHER Alexander Büchler, Managing Director HEAD OFFICE heidelberg business media GmbH Hubweg 15 74939 Zuzenhausen, Germany phone: +49 6221-65108-0 fax: +49 6221-65108-28 info@petpla.net EDITORIAL Kay Barton Heike Fischer Gabriele Kosmehl Michael Maruschke Ruari McCallion Anthony Withers WikiPETia. info petplanet@petpla.net MEDIA CONSULTANTS Martina Hirschmann hirschmann@petpla.net Johann Lange-Brock lange-brock@petpla.net phone: +49 6221-65108-0 fax: +49 6221-65108-28 LAYOUT AND PREPRESS EXPRIM Werbeagentur | exprim.de Matthias Gaumann READER SERVICES reader@petpla.net PRINT Chroma Druck Eine Unternehmung der Limberg-Druck GmbH Danziger Platz 6 67059 Ludwigshafen, Germany WWW www.hbmedia.net | www.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’ subscription 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. 24 No. 04/23 www.petpla.net Dear readers, After the lockdowns, China is now also opening up again to travellers and tourists. The country can now be visited without any quarantine formalities. From our plastics perspective, Chinaplas in particular should benefit from this, which is about to start. With a gross area of 380,000m², it has grown by 8.6% compared to 2021. 3,900 national and international exhibitors will be present on the grounds of the Shenzhen World Exhibition & Convention Center, PR China (SWECC). China is impressively back on the international stage. As everywhere else in the world, sustainability dominates the industry in China. Smart and green are the key words in plastics and rubber industries: Many manufacturing companies are demanding high production efficiency, cost reduction, low pollution, and low energy consumption. In addition to the Injection Moulding and Smart Manufacturing Solutions Zone, visitors at Chinaplas can find the latest all-round sustainable solutions for environmentally friendly materials, processing technologies, and products in various theme zones, including Recycled Plastics Zone, Bioplastics Zone, and Recycling Tech Zone, and the newly established Innovative Products Zone. Relevant trade fairs on the European continent are now also on the agenda: the Interpack trade fair in Düsseldorf, Germany will open its doors to the international experts of the packaging industry from May 4-10. After the suspension of the fair in 2020, 2,700 companies have now registered and will present their innovations. Equally relevant, the established recycling trade fair PRS Europe in Amsterdam, Netherlands will open its doors to recycling industry professionals from May 10-11. This year, the event is expanding to include another exhibition hall. An extensive conference programme forms the perfect framework for the exhibition. As a small preview: Also new is this year’s PRS Middle East and Africa from September 5-7 in Dubai. Yours Alexander Büchler
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