Thailand’s best-in-class trade fair for the plastics and rubber sectors to return in 2015

19-Feb-14

Formerly known as TIPREX, launched in 2006, the trade fair has been rebranded to T-PLAS to signify its relevance to the robust growth and developments in the plastics sector, enhance the regional focus and international outlook of the event, and to highlight a unified business platform for the plastics and rubber industries. The rebrand to T-PLAS, will see the trade fair co-locate with the well-established event PACK PRINT INTERNATIONAL 2015, emphasising the global market synergy of the plastics, rubber, packaging and printing sectors. The venue will be BITEC, Bangkok, Thailand, from 26 to 29 August 2015. Mr Gernot Ringling, Managing Director of Messe Düsseldorf Asia said: “The T-PLAS brand underpins Messe Dusseldorf Asia’s expertise in delivering a highly relevant platform that features a full spectrum of solutions, including the latest machinery and equipment, semi-finished products, technical parts and reinforced plastics, raw materials to services for the plastics and rubber sectors. T-PLAS 2015 is also strategically positioned as Thailand is home to more than 4,000 plastics processing companies, making it Southeast Asia’s largest plastics processing industry.” Thailand also features a robust local presence of factories of global car and electronics manufacturers, and has the ambitious goal of being the regional leader in the production of bioplastics. More significantly, Mr Ringling added that T-PLAS substantiates an inevitable evolution of Messe Dusseldorf Asia’s plastics and rubber trade fairs to deliver a meeting place with a strong local flavour and global appeal. “This ensures we provide participating companies with strategic opportunities to springboard their foothold into the regional plastics and rubber markets.”