International Trade Fair Plastics and Rubber, reflected on a grand scale the industry's robust health and cemented the fair's leading position in the country. Full order books and highly promising new business contacts added up to extremely satisfied exhibitors.

Main product groups at Interplastica:

• Machinery and equipment for the plastics and rubber industries
• Machinery and equipment for process preparation and recycling
• Machinery and equipment for processing
• Processing and post-processing machines
• Machines and facilities for finishing, decorating, printing and marking
• Welding machines
• Tools
• Peripherals
• Facilities for measuring, controlling, adjusting and testing
• Components
• Raw and auxiliary materials
• Plastic and rubber products
• Logistics and storage equipment for the plastics and rubber industries
• Services for the plastics and rubber industries

Interplastica 2011 summary
INTERPLASTICA 2011 characterised by positive market developments/20,000 trade visitors very interested in international vendors

The Russian plastic and rubber products market has picked up and is gaining momentum. Although recovery is a little slower than in the rest of the BRIC region, there is investment in every area of the industry again. Projects that had been put on hold due to the global financial and economic crisis have got underway again and new tasks are being addressed. There is still considerable need for investment in Russia, with production capacities being expanded and modernised, especially in the areas of packaging and medical technology, as the health and pharmaceuticals sector is receiving greater support from the Russian government. However, the infrastructure is also considered to be an attractive growth market, as are the consumer goods and automobile industries.

INTERPLASTICA 2011, the International Trade Fair for Plastics & Rubber, was characterised by the positive market developments. The mood amongst exhibitors was excellent, in view of the wealth of customer contacts, not least due to the many contracts signed during the four days of the fair, which lasted from 25 - 28 January. Some 20,000 trade visitors from the entire Russian Federation and many neighbouring countries flocked to Moscow to visit INTERPLASTICA and UPAKOVKA/UPAK ITALIA trade fair for packaging technology, which took place in parallel to it, where a total of 890 exhibitors (at the two fairs combined) presented their range of products and services, covering a total area of over 17,000 square metres.