Rubber is back and growing

In the wake of the good result recorded in 2012, Rubber, the fair dedicated to the rubber industry, will be returning to Plast 2015, the event scheduled to be held at the Fiera Milano exhibition centre from 5 to 9 May next year. Rubber was already a great success at the last Plast fair, which saw its return after an absence of twenty years, and today the first reservations for next year’s event confirm that this success has not only been repeated but already hugely superseded.

Rubber is an extremely valuable presence within Plast because it shows the diversity and specificity of the rubber industry, both in terms of technology and in terms of in target markets. The fair will represent, at a time of general (not sector-specific) crisis, a meeting place to discuss and exchange knowledge and technologies, also with a view to internationalisation. In a period that is seeing many trade fairs just marking time, if not closing altogether, reservations of exhibition spaces at Rubber 2015 are already up by 30% compared with 2012. This is a first result that is obviously very encouraging, bearing witness to the vitality of the elastomer sector. “Rubber 2015 will be a showcase for the entire rubber industry, from raw materials to blends and finished products, as well as machines of course, and laboratory equipment and instrumentation, which will certainly be a particular draw. Places and reservations at the 2015 Rubber fair will, for the first time, be organised directly by Assogomma, through its service company, Sviluppo Servizi Gomma, and with the support of Promaplast, the company organising Plast 2015: a valuable sector collaboration that will benefit companies,” remarked Fabio Bertolotti, director of Assogomma.

Rubber, an initiative dedicated to the rubber world, is one of the new and various activities that the  sector association Assogomma has, over the past two years, undertaken to introduce, its aim being to constitute an increasingly important reference point for sector operators.