GreenPlast 2025: Quality First and Foremost

The 2025 edition of GreenPlast, the exhibition and conference dedicated to sustainability in the plastics industry, concluded just over a week ago, with results overall in line with expectations. The event attracted 17,373 visitors who engaged with 200 exhibitors (75% Italian, 25% international), comprising raw material producers (22%), processors (18%), and machinery manufacturers (60%) from 19 Countries, spread across an exhibition area of 5,500 square metres. This turnout helped further consolidate the visibility of an event that has now established itself within the trade fair and conference landscape of the sector.

Feedback gathered from exhibitors indicates a high level of satisfaction, mainly due to the quality of contacts made rather than the sheer quantity. Visitor profiles demonstrated a growing and concrete interest in sustainable solutions, confirming the relevance of an event entirely focused on materials, technologies, and processing methods for plastics and rubber, with a strong emphasis on environmental sustainability – even within the current complex geopolitical and economic context. GreenPlast continues to offer an increasingly comprehensive overview of solutions for energy efficiency in plant operations, eco-design, and the most advanced technologies for plastics processing, recycling, and reuse.

The international conference “Shaping a Sustainable Future for Plastics”, coordinated by AMI – Applied Market Information and Promaplast, the event organiser, also saw a satisfactory attendance. The initiative brought together experts and professionals from across the value chain to reflect on the opportunities and challenges presented by the ecological transition.

Once again this edition, GreenPlast was part of The Innovation Alliance, the cross-secor event that brought together four exhibitions under a single, integrated vision – an  expression of the innovative strength of capital goods technology serving the manufacturing industry. A comprehensive ecosystem ranging from materials to plastics processing technologies, with a focus on sustainability, showcased by GreenPlast, to packaging and processing at Ipack-Ima, from printing and converting at Print4All to warehouse logistics at Intralogistica Italia. A clear common thread united them all: innovation, digitalization, and sustainability as strategic drivers.

The recently concluded edition attracted a total of 108,458 professional visitors from 143 countries, who explored the latest technological solutions offered by 1,857 exhibitors - 39% of whom came from 38 foreign nations. Conceived to highlight the innovative capabilities of capital goods technologies, this event - unique in Europe - confirmed its systemic vocation, demonstrating how integrating multiple trade shows can generate value greater than the sum of its parts.

Building on these results and looking ahead to future needs, The Innovation Alliance is now entering a new phase: each of the participating exhibitions will follow its own timeline, aligned with the specific requirements of its sector and its positioning within the international trade show calendar. This strategic choice will allow each exhibition to enhance its effectiveness and relevance, without compromising their shared identity and unified vision. The Innovation Alliance will continue to thrive through tangible synergies among the individual exhibitions, shared content, joint initiatives, and supply chain platforms, sustaining a dynamic ecosystem focused on innovation and constantly engaged with the evolving needs of the manufacturing sectors. This evolution marks the project’s maturity and its ability to adapt while remaining coherent - further strengthening the alliance between the represented industries, even beyond the framework of simultaneous scheduling.