Make Way for Women at K2025
During K2025 in Düsseldorf, the triennial trade fair dedicated to the rubber and plastics industry, a networking event focused on women in the sector will take place on Sunday, October 12, 2025.
PlasticEurope fears tariffs
PlasticsEurope, the association of European plastics manufacturers, has taken a stand on the ‘all against all’ trade tariff war that the Trump administration has decided to unleash globally, commentin ...
MecSpe confirms the numbers
The 2025 edition of MecSpe, according to what the organisers announced today, registered 66,573 visitors in three days with over 2,100 exhibiting companies, spread over more than 100 thousand square m ...
The risks of export duties
The American policy on duties, America First Trade Policy, announced in recent days by the Trump administration, risks having heavy repercussions on European and Italian industry, as noted in a recent ...
Slight increase in prices for flexible packaging
The Flexible Packaging Europe (FPE) Association has published data for 2024 regarding the price trends of the main raw materials and semi-finished products used in flexible packaging.
K2025 catalogue is online
Nine months before the gates open, the catalogue for K2025, the plastics and rubber exhibition in Düsseldorf from 8 to 15 October 2025, is online.
Freight rates rise again
After a difficult year, container freight rates from China to Europe have risen again in recent days, online magazine TrasportoEuropa reported, citing the index compiled by Drewry.
Two companies out of three do not find the figures they are looking for
Confindustria confirms in a recent survey what companies in the rubber-plastics sector already know, often because they have experienced it themselves: two out of three companies are unable to find th ...