New directions in sustainable production

The economic growth and human welfare gains should not be achieved at the cost of environmental deterioration. Natural resources should be produced, processed and consumed in a more environmentally sustainable way. CHINAPLAS 2010, which has been successfully concluded on 22 April at the Shanghai New International Expo Centre, Pudong, Shanghai, PR China, highlighted these objectives for "green plastics." The exhibition attracted over 81,435 visitors with majority being professional buyers in search of the latest chemical and raw materials as well as all kinds of plastics and rubber technologies.

As Asia's No. 1 and the world's No. 3 exhibition, CHINAPLAS continues to emerge a winner in terms of the range of products exhibited by leading players in the plastics and rubber industry. Despite a dip in European attendance due largely to the volcano eruption, the number of exhibitors surged by 18% to 2,100.

"China is now the No.1 producer of plastics machinery in the world. There are over 20,000 factories with production of plastics products valued at over 5 million yuan annually ($732,560) producing plastic products. The new slogan of CHINAPLAS 2010 - The Growth Engine for Your Industries - witnesses the congruent growth of this exhibition along with various industries and sectors. It injects new momentum into various industries and enables enterprises to take advantage of early opportunities in the wake of economic revival," said Mr Stanley Chu, Chairman of the Adsale Exhibition Services Ltd, the organizer of CHINAPLAS 2010.

Environment protection solutions at its best
Through a series of industrial forums, the visitors gained deeper understanding of plastics being an eco-friendly material. With real case sharing on the applications of green plastics, visitors were able to confer with leading green plastics and rubber solution providers and experts from different countries, and network with manufacturers who adopt the green technologies. Speakers from renowned exhibitors, including BASF, Bayer, DSM, Du Pont, provided rich information on green applications. The exhibition also featured a "Green Corner," which displayed the most advanced eco-friendly plastics and rubber technologies from exhibitors in order to encourage buyers to source the green exhibits and finally adoption of the green concept into their end products. Green raw materials such as polylactic acid (PLA) and bio-degradable resin and their products were the crowd's favourites.