Russia: Investing boosts the industry, plastics industry expands capacities

The economic recovery in Russia – particularly in the plastics sector – has resulted in interplastica 2018 being very popular with exhibitors. The leading trade fair for the industry will again be presenting a representative overview of the available machinery and equipment for the plastics and rubber industry, raw and auxiliary materials, plastic and rubber products and services. The event’s organisers – Messe Düsseldorf and its subsidiary OOO Messe Düsseldorf Moscow – are expecting around 600 companies to attend from Russia and other countries. Strong participation is anticipated from the host country as well as from Germany, Italy, Austria and Turkey in particular.

Russia’s economy started to grow again in 2017 and the gross domestic product is expected to increase by between 0.5 and 2%. Investments will probably increase by 1.5%. Selected sectors, including the machinery and automotive construction, aerospace, electronics, IT and telecommunications, chemicals and mining industries, are being supported by the government. Petrochemical and industrial-gas generation plants are being built for the purposes of manufacturing intermediate and end products with greater margins and with the aim of improving supplies of raw materials from domestic sources to the country’s own chemicals industry. The plastics manufacturing and processing sectors, which have already been increasing their capacities for some time now, are also benefiting from this support (Source: GTAI – Germany Trade & Invest).

A considerably improved outlook for the plastics and rubber industry was already apparent at interplastica in Moscow in January 2017. The exhibitors reported that business people were extremely interested in their presentations – with some even being ready to place orders. Trade visitors utilised the opportunity to acquaint themselves with new developments on the global market and to commence negotiations with suppliers at the event. All of which augurs well for the upcoming fair, particularly as there remains a considerable need for investment in large sections of the manufacturing industry in Russia.

That’s why trade visitors from Russia and neighbouring countries remain highly interested in innovative technologies. It is also the reason why the 3D fab+print Russia exhibition and conference event is being expanded to focus on the rapidly growing areas of additive manufacturing and 3D printing. The première at interplastica 2017 attracted widespread attention so that all the talks and presentations were very well attended. Experts from Russia and other countries will again be discussing developments, opportunities and challenges in the young technological sector and exhibitors will be presenting their products and solutions at the upcoming event.