All-round success

The largest exhibition of this year, in Europe, for the plastics and rubber industries, closed on Saturday May 9 with positive results. Plast 2015 hosted the satellite-shows Rubber 2015 (rubber sector), 3D Plast (3D printing and related technologies) and Start Plast (innovative startups). Overall, 1,558 exhibitors take part at Plast 2015 (+3%  compared to 2012) entirely occupying the six big halls of Fiera Milano 9, 11, 13, 15, 22 and 24. The net exhibition area was around 55,000 sqm (120,000 sqm gross). Several thousand machinery in operation have been really appreciated during the five show days, based on motive power consumption already recorded by Fiera Milano.

Waiting for official statistics on visitors' entrances, that will be communicated just after the collection of all the registration data from the receptions, Fiera Milano turnstiles have detected a flow of more than 50,000 visitors, of which more than 35% from abroad. It is a great result, also considering that, in the first three exhibition days, due to the coincidence with Expo and other important exhibitions held in Fiera Milano, it has not been possible to register all vehicles coming in the Fairgrounds and relevant passengers, that are in fact not included in such survey.

Furthermore, during the opening ceremony of Tuesday May 5, Assocomaplast president Giorgio Colombo confirmed what reported on big signals on site and in the official catalogue, i.e. the important news concerning next edition of Plast, that will take place from September 26 to 30, 2017, anticipating some months compared to the usual frequency, then keeping the triennial cycle again. The very first impressions of the exhibitors were all positive, thanks to the better distribution of their exhibition engagements achieved with this decision. The auspice is that such decision will strengthen PLAST, further increasing the number of exhibitors and visitors.