Plastics Hall of Fame Goes K 2025

Dear Readers,

the inaugural event of the Plastics Hall of Fame Class of 2025 will take place outside the USA for the first time. The festive event will take place on October 7, 2025, the eve of K 2025 in Düsseldorf. “The K in Düsseldorf offers the ideal platform to further promote the internationalization of the Plastics Hall of Fame and to honor personalities from all over the world who have made a special contribution to the international success of the plastics industry,” explains Maureen Steinwall, President Hall of Fame.

Nominations for the prestigious award are still possible until the end of February.

Double Awards: Hall of Fame and Escales Prize

The Plastics Hall of Fame and Carl Hanser Verlag are two organizers with the same objective: to honor the great personalities of the plastics industry. This year, visitors to the Plastics Hall of Fame Gala Evening and the Escales Award Ceremony will celebrate together on the eve of the start of the K trade fair on Tuesday, October 7.

• Read more on the merged award ceremony

Specialist Articles

From Hype to Market Consolidation?

What happened to the vision of additive manufacturing as a game changer in industrial production? In an interview with Plastics Insights, Mohamad Janbain of EnvisionTec explains why the market is consolidating and where there is still potential for innovation.

• To the interview (PI+)

Painting in the Mold – in New Dimensions

Coating thermoplastic components with paint directly in the injection mold is an eco-friendly alternative to the conventional method of spray-painting plastic components. A process by the name of ColorForm – which involves flooding the component surface with polyurethane (PUR) – achieves exactly that, and with only a few process steps on one system, it is particularly efficient. KraussMaffei has now put the industry’s largest pilot plant into operation at its Parsdorf, Germany location.

• To the article

What's New?

• Oerlikon Barmag and 赢创工业集团 have announced their cooperation to promote chemical recycling of Polyethylene terephthalate (PET) waste. Both companies are committed to develop technologies for robust and efficient depolymerisation and purification processes, coupled with an integrated concept for repolymerisation and the associated EPC business models. Read more
• ALPLA Group joins the Brazilian HDPE recycling company Clean Bottle and acquires a majority stake in the joint venture. The plant, located in S?o José dos Pinhais in the state of Paraná has an annual output capacity of 15,000 t of HDPE recycled material (rHDPE). Read more
• Plastivar S.r.l. , a global leader in edgebanding production, has selected INEOS Styrolution ’s ABS grades for their new edgebanding collections. Read more