Plastics Industry Events

Med-Tech Innovation Expo is the UK & Ireland’s leading event for medical device design and manufacturing. Offering a unique platform for visitors to meet with peers, designers, engineers and innovators. It attracts world-class exhibitors as well as emerging start-ups. The conference programme is delivered by inspiring thought leaders and champions of the industry.

Interplas is the biggest plastics industry event in the UK. A triennial event, over 500 exhibitors invest time and planning into demonstrating their latest machinery, equipment, products and services for visitors to view, test and experience at the show.

Compounding World Expo brings together professionals from across the compounding industry for two days of networking, knowledge sharing and innovation. This free-to-attend event supplies a focused forum for the plastics industry supply chain, including compounders, masterbatch makers, specifiers and end users.

Plastics Recycling World Expo is a dedicated free-to-attend marketplace for the plastics recycling industry. The event will host over 200 exhibitors presenting the full range of sorting, washing, size reduction and recycling equipment as well as materials, additives, and relevant services.

Professionals from throughout the materials supply chain will come together at the free-to-attend Polymer Testing Expo 2020. Join the industry at this important new forum for scientists, laboratory staff, researchers and R&D professionals who develop, test and analyse new polymer materials, formulations and products.

Following the launch in the USA, the Plastics Extrusion World Expo is debuting in Essen, Germany in 2020. This free-to-attend event provides a unique platform to discuss new and future technologies and innovations in film, sheet, pipe and profile extrusion.

Foam Expo Europe covers all types of foam and raw materials used in the manufacture of foam and foam-related products, including moulded, rigid and flexible foams using materials ranging from urethanes to elastomeric materials such as rubber and PVC, as well as manufacturing machinery and foam service providers. The event offers a single marketplace for foam manufacturers to meet with potential buyers and their supply chain.

The Plastics Industry Awards will take place as a hybrid event on 1-2 December 2021. The event will comprise a two-day virtual conference and networking along with the LIVE glittering Awards ceremony at London’s Hilton Waldorf on the evening of the 2nd December 2021, for those able to attend in-person. The event will also be livestreamed direct to desktops of the Plastics Industry community.

A one-day Expo & Conference, MAPPA brings world-class speakers to a highly focused audience involved in Research, Design, Manufacturing, Purchasing and Integration of Materials, Advanced Plastics and Polymers, Adhesives and union technologies, Composites, Coatings, Ceramics and all associated technologies.

Plastics Live will bring together key sectors from the plastics ecosystem over two days of top-level content and thought leadership discussions across 3 additional co-located events including Sustainable Plastics Live, Additive Manufacturing in plastics (AMPLAS) and the newly added Industry 4.0 in Plastics - Transformation tracks.