Plastics event on schedule for success

Exhibition organiser Emap Maclaren says the new Plastics Design and Moulding (PDM) event is on target for a successful debut, reporting that over 65% of stand space is now sold.

Exhibition organiser Emap Maclaren says the new Plastics Design and Moulding (PDM) event is on target for a successful debut, reporting that over 65% of stand space is now sold.

With such widespread support, PDM 05 is well set to provide an event which meets the industry's needs at a time when encouraging signs in the moulding sector have been identified by the Polymer Machinery Manufacturers and Distributors Association (PMMDA).

Among recent companies who have signed up to PDM 05 are: Haitian, Mitsui Fanuc, BMB, Hi-Tech Moulding, G and A Moulding and Tooltemp.

These companies join the event's founding partner companies who are taking space at PDM 05, including Albis, ATM, Battenfeld, Clariant, Distrupol, DuPont, Gabriel-Chemie, Husky Injection Moulding Systems, Motan, Netstal, Plastribution and Summit Systems.

Also, actively supporting PDM 05 are: the GTMA, the Institute of Materials, the Chartered Society of Designers, PTL and Polymer Cluster.

With less than seven months to go until PDM 05 officially opens its doors to visitors and conference delegates, these commitments add up to over 65% of all available exhibition space and over 200 represented companies.

This tide of rising support for the event comes at a time when the PMMDA has revealed that sales in the first half of this year in the injection moulding market followed a similar pattern to the corresponding period of last year.

As recently reported in PRW (3rd September 2004), a PMMDA spokeswoman stated that "this can only be seen as an encouraging sign of stability in the light of the previous five years, which marked a general decline year on year".

Sales of 1000 tonne machines and above were particularly buoyant, showing a 33% rise.

"The wide-ranging support PDM 05 is receiving from across the moulding sector is above and beyond our expectations", says Andy Beevers, PDM 05's Event Director.

"Exhibitors are recognising the appeal of a comprehensive event which focuses specifically on the designers and producers of moulded plastic products".

"That's what they've asked for and that is what PDM 05 will deliver".

"The timing of the event also looks spot on, as it taps into a renewed sense of optimism in the sector".

PDM 05 will take place in Telford on 12th-14th April 2005.

It is being organised by Emap Maclaren, the publisher of PRW and European Plastics News.

PDM 05 is a comprehensive industry event featuring three halls of value-for-money exhibition space and a full three-day conference programme designed to attract a high-level audience from across the design and moulding sectors.

Other added value initiatives, developed in consultation with the founding partners, include a series of industry breakfast briefings, a machine setting competition, a special design landmarks display and a dedicated designer's lounge.

More details will be released soon.

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