K, with Italian accent
September 13, 2010
Italy again this year the main exhibitor foreign country in the 2010 K. More than 400 Italian companies will present their products on a net area of 27,400 square metres. With regard to the exhibitors of machinery, Assocomaplast, the Association of Italian manufacturers of machines for plastic and rubber, has confirmed that a total of 118 companies of the entity will participate in the living room, and will be an exhibition of around area of 15,000 square meters.
The capacity of the sector in Italy
This presence, which involves a great organizational and economic effort is, in the opinion of Giorgio Colombo, President of Assocomaplast, "a confirmation of the ability of the Italian industry in the sector to respond to a global crisis that started in late 2008 and already in the process of overcoming"", it has not forgiven the sector of the plastics and rubber". Colombo was speaking on July 27 in a cena-presentación for the international trade press organized by the Association on the occasion of the K at a restaurant in Milan.
The President of the Association ahead of this year, the stand of the Assocomaplast in K (booth 16A56) will feature the presence of a car Dallara, Italian automobile firm whose material composite chassis are mounted on the car who more often have won the formula Indy races, the alternative American to formula one. This is, as he described it as Colombo, "a worthy standard bearer of Italian creativity and cutting-edge technology".
Addition, the Association space in the fair will distribute information materials on the Italian machines for plastic and rubber industry.
Plast 2012 promotion
Colombo took advantage of his intervention to promote the 2012 Plast, "the second European sample in size and representativeness, organized every three years by the Association". The next edition will take place at the Milan trade fair Tuesday 8-Saturday 12 of may of 2012, exactly in the middle of the period between this edition of K and the next.
"The Plast for our association represents a major organizational and promotional effort geared mainly to the ' made in Italy", stated Colombo. So far, the Secretariat of the Association already has launched an intensive programme of consultations exhibitors with the aim of collecting and propose ideas to improve the international image of Plast 2012.