NPE 2024: official data

NPE 2024, held in Orlando, Florida, from 6 to 10 May, announced its final registration and paid exhibit space results data, totaling 51,396 registrants and more than 102,000 square metres respectively. NPE 2024 saw a record-breaking number of international attendees, first-time attendees and paid exhibit space. Additional numbers include: 15,156 international registrants from 133 countries, establishing NPE 2024 as the most global show in the event’s history; 36,123 domestic registrants, 70% of the total; 20,378 first-time attendees, a nearly 9% increase over NPE 2018.

With the outstanding number of NPE 2024 international registrations, the results also revealed a significant growth in attendance across different regions, including: 4,438 Latin American registrants, 29.3% of international registration and a 9.9% increase of Latin American registrations compared to NPE 2018; significant registration increases were seen from countries including Brazil, Colombia and Guatemala; 2,801 European registrants, 18.5% of international registration and a 23% increase of European registrations over NPE 2018 with the largest registration increase from Italy.

“This growing presence of European and Latin Americans registrants is indicative of the respective countries’ impact on the plastics industry,” said Perc Pineda, Plastics Industry Association Chief Economist. “As the US is the second largest importer of plastics machinery, accounting for 12% of global imports, European countries make up six of the top ten countries supplying the US in 2023, totaling 1.6 billion dollars. Similarly, over the past five years, US exports of plastics machinery to Latin America have also grown by 6.5% annually, supporting the region’s expanding plastics industry.”

As for the exhibition area of over 102,000 square metres, it grew by some 980 square metres compared to NPE 2018, in comparison to which the number of exhibitors also increased (by 10.3 per cent), which turned out to be 2,202. NPE 2027 is set to return to Orlando from May 3-7, 2027.