Exhibitors Council of the International Plastics & Rubber Fair convened for its first session in Düsseldorf

The first meeting of the Exhibitors Council heralds the beginning of concrete preparations for K 2013, which will take place in Düsseldorf from 16 to 23 October 2013. The members of this body met to set the course for the world’s No.1 trade fair for the plastics and rubber industry. The Exhibitors Council supports Messe Düsseldorf in planning K 2013 and advises it on fundamental strategic and organisational issues.

It is composed of representatives from the exhibiting companies and leading industry associations and covers the entire technological breadth of K 2013:

• machinery and equipment manufacturing,
• production of raw materials and auxiliaries,
• manufacture of semi-finished products,
• technical parts made of plastics and rubber.

The Exhibitors Council is again chaired by Ulrich Reifenhäuser, CEO of the machine manufacturing company of the same name and chairman of the Plastics and Rubber Machinery Association within the German Engineering Federation VDMA. Vice-chairman is, as before, Dr Rainer Büschl, Head of Communications, Performance Polymers, BASF SE, who also leads the conceptualisation committee. The organisation committee is once more chaired by Thorsten Kühmann, managing director of the Plastics and Rubber Machinery Association within VDMA.