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<\/figure>But now almost everything has turned backwards. We are now lucky enough to gather us to Germany, Dusseldorf with new \u2013 and also old \u2013 topics in fields of plastics. And what is the most important fact \u2013 to meet each other and continue the discussions and development tasks in terms of plastics. Now we all can see, if this could turn the whole branch of plastics into life again.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
The plastics world is in very tough movement. What is happening in eastern parts of Europe, the rise of prices in energy and the high level of inflation are brightly visible in the life of individuals but also business branches. Everything has happened using extremely high velocity, nobody has not even had the smallest idea to this kind of development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Fair is the best place for companies to show their competence, even how they would be prepared to this development. It is not enough to speak of recycling or carbon footprint, now tough and right type of activities are needed in every part of business. Are we really on the right path?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What we expect the K2022 Fair to show to us and our colleagues? Naturally \u2013 as during previous K Fairs \u2013 actions and activities \u2013 as well as practical technology \u2013 to change our business showing more efficient and responsible features and results. Rules and regulations make demands to recycle and reuse of plastics, energy efficacy of business and new procedures to be implemented as part of daily business of companies at plastics branch. Such actions have already been seen, but… It is in some extent unknowns have we seen, however, and done enough. Probably not, there is still a lot to do!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Should moving towards hybrid f the main steps of plastics industry? The melting and molding can definitely not any more be in Europe the tools towards profitable business \u2013 multicompetence is needed instead. This would lead to electronics, optics, assembly, etc., competence from many prototypes of business branches. This is not something new, it was seen in Europe, when telecommunication was a big factor in plastics industry. The question is, would success be reached \u2013 and how easily \u2013 when decision makers are coming from new generations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
One of the main expectations is to see how the plastics material producers are answering to growing recycling and reuse demands coming from the society and end-users. It is not the question, if there are recycled materials available, but which kind of properties \u2013 compared to fossil based \u2013 will be ensured? And topics, such as price, availability, how to process, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We reach K2022 with very positive thoughts filled with questions and expectations \u2013 what will the most important plastics fair offer to us. We will find \u2013 that is sure \u2013 new tools to increase our business, also important contacts will be found. But to get the answer, what would be the situation of the European plastics and chemical industry, when year 2023 starts \u2013 or even a little bit further.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
One aspect there is very surely, however, nothing is reached without co-operation, labour and R&D activities. Without being active and also showing sacrifices that is not possible \u2013 that is more than sure!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Expecting nice and forward targeting K2022 Fair!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Karita Sil\u00e9n, Editor-in-Chief<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Text: Karita Sil\u00e9n The plastics industry in Europe \u2013 or even world-wide \u2013 is during this October facing one very important happening. With COVID 19 we have been pretty lucky, because the three-year-period have jumped over the worst days and months of this epidemic. For many of us the last K Fair in 2019 has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[394],"tags":[219,124,384,47],"class_list":["post-3729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lehti-2-2022","tag-abc-plastics-news","tag-in-plastics-we-trust","tag-k2022","tag-karita-silen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abc-plasticsnews.fi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abc-plasticsnews.fi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abc-plasticsnews.fi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abc-plasticsnews.fi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abc-plasticsnews.fi\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3729"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abc-plasticsnews.fi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3731,"href":"https:\/\/abc-plasticsnews.fi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3729\/revisions\/3731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abc-plasticsnews.fi\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abc-plasticsnews.fi\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abc-plasticsnews.fi\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}