41 EVENT PREVIEW PETplanet Insider Vol. 26 No. 03/25 www.petpla.net EVENTpreview Chinaplas 2025 - preview part 2 Chinaplas 2025 will take place at Shenzhen World Exhibition & Convention Center, PR China, on April 15-18, 2025. Concurrent events will reflect a focus on sustainability and innovation. The programme will bring together industry leaders and experts to address the pressing challenges and explore emerging opportunities in the industry. These initiatives underscore the imperative for businesses to enhance cost-effectiveness through high-performance solutions, paving the way for a more sustainable future. Sustainable Plastic Packaging Forum In response to the challenge of sustainability of plastic packaging, Adsale Exhibition Services Ltd., the organiser of Chinaplas, will join forces with the China Packaging Federation to launch the innovative business networking forum during the show period, which will bring together representatives from authoritative packaging organisations at home and abroad as well as experts from leading enterprises to discuss the sustainability of plastic packaging from an international perspective and release the latest solutions. Meanwhile, in the Buyer Talk session, packaging managers of renowned brands will share their concerns about materials and processes, and discuss their difficulties and pain points in innovative packaging research and development, which realises efficient docking between the upstream and downstream of the industry chain in the easy interaction among brands, products, materials and equipment suppliers. “The Plastics Circularity Journey” Production Line Live Demo The plastic recycling industry is another focus of Chinaplas 2025. “The Plastics Circularity Journey” Production Line Live Demo, themed around the circular economy of plastics, will comprehensively showcase the high-value utilisation and advanced technology of plastic recycling through live demonstration. These two lines will highlight the themes of “Closed-loop bottle-to-bottle recycling” and “Turning aaste into treasure”, presenting the entire process of plastic recycling to the audience. The “Circularity: PET food-grade recycling” production line live demonstration will include six processes: material sorting, extrusion granulation, metal detector, underwater pelletising, solid-state polymerisation, and injection-blow moulding. These processes will be provided by Meyer Optoelectronics, Aceretech, Sesotec, Polycut, and BPET. This is the first time the complete PET same-grade recycling production process has been showcased at the exhibition. www.chinaplasonline.com Hall 2 / 2G31 Made in China for China The internationally operating Maag Group, headquartered in Oberglatt, Switzerland, has been stepping up its localisation strategy in China. Maag China has continuously increased its business activities and sales. The company operates in an area of 7,500m2, the assembly shop at the site in Jiading, a district of Shanghai, has recently doubled in size. Maag China offers its customers production, sales and various services with over 100 employees. Products are engineered in Switzerland or Germany, adapted to the local needs in China and – cost savingly – manufactured and assembled in the company’s Shanghai factory. Maag has already been producing GA series extrusion pumps, Baoli strand pelletisers, and Zhuli underwater pelletisers in China. The C-USG, a similarly adapted version of the proven M-USG underwater strand pelletising system is expanding the market-specific portfolio. The original German design forms the basis for this new version. While some key components are supplied from Germany, the majority of parts come from local production. In the local grinding centres in Shanghai (East China) and Guangzhou (South China), the company grind cutting rotors, cutting blades and die plates – even those from other manufacturers. www.maag.cn www.maag.com Maag Group Hall 10 Booth D05
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