K is the key for plastics and rubber

More than 3,200 companies from 59 countries showed their products and processes in machinery and equipment, raw materials and auxiliaries, and semi-finished products, technical parts and reinforced plastics.

Werner Matthias Dornscheidt, president and CEO of Messe Düsseldorf, said: “Once again it becomes very clear that K is and remains the most important event in the rubber and plastics industry. This is where new technologies are premiered alongside fully matured further developments and this is also where orders are placed for these innovations. ​

"Foreign visitors to K 2013, in particular, showed an extremely high willingness to invest and one in two visitors came to Düsseldorf with specific purchasing intentions in mind. ​

"Even if the size of delegations from the individual purchasing companies dropped slightly, no firm producing or using plastic goods missed this chance to find out about the innovations of today and the trends of the future at K 2013.”​