Packaging
Renewed focus on bioplastics at the interpack
Friday 02. July 2010 - Exhibition is fully booked again
For the third consecutive edition the interpack bioplastics trade fair will be staging a group exhibition. With just under a year to go until the event gets underway a total of 39 companies have already registered for the fully booked exhibition.
After 2005 and 2008, bioplastics will be exhibited by the trade fair and the organiser European Bioplastics in hall 9 alongside packaging materials, packages and package production. This means that in 2011 the pioneering green plastics industry will be moving out of the INNOVATIONPARC PACKAGING for the first time and can now prove it-self within the established sectors. “We are very excited about this positive example which further underlines the success of our approach of focusing on such hot topics,” says Bernd Jablonowski, director of interpack.
Bioplastics have made rapid progress since the first group exhibition in 2005. With average annual market growth of 15-20 per cent the materials, which currently have a market share of less than one per cent, already represent a sound and environment-friendly alternative to conventional plastics in many areas. The industry expects to grow from a global production capacity of just under 600,000 tonnes at present to over 1.4 million tonnes by 2013. Plastics from renewable raw materials will play an increasingly important role, for in their manufacture, the carbon derived from the carbon dioxide taken in by plants is removed from the
atmosphere for a period of years.
“The number of registrations in the bioplastics sector underscores the importance of interpack for our industry. Despite the crisis over the last two years, companies keep addressing the growing demand for products that are climate-friendly and resource-efficient. We are hoping for an increase in the number of companies taking part in the exhibition and looking forward to finding out whether the previous years record number of visitors will be surpassed in 2011,” says Hasso von Pogrell, Managing Director of the European Bioplastics association.