K 2025 recorded over 1,75,000 visitors

The K Show, the plastics and rubber industry’s most relevant trade fair worldwide, drew to a successful close on 15 October after eight days. K Show 2025, taking place in Dusseldorf has put its motto, The Power of Plastics! Green – Smart – Responsible in practice. The plastics and rubber industry presented itself as more innovative, international, and determined to shape the transition to more sustainability, digitalisation, and social responsibility.  

K Show 2025 recorded 3,275 exhibitors from 66 nations who presented forward-looking technologies, products, and processes along the entire plastics and rubber industry value chain across 18 exhibition halls and outdoor areas. In addition, over 1,75,000 trade visitors from around 160 countries travelled to Dusseldorf. India left a strong impression with 6,400 visitors from the country.

Marius Berlemann, chief operating officer at Messe Dusseldorf emphasised, “K has demonstrated once again just how much innovative power and dynamism this sector holds.” He added, “The enormous international interest, the high demand for information, and the multitude of concrete investment conversations all the way to many contracts concluded right on site underline the importance of this trade fair as a global platform for pioneering solutions and partnership-based exchange.”

Berlemann remarked, “K is an indispensable compass in uncertain times and once again succeeded in confirming its role as the most important impulse provider and launch platform for the global plastics and rubber industry, where numerous companies have unveiled their innovations to the global public for the first time.”

Ulrich Reifenhauser, chairman of the K 2025 exhibitor advisory board, explained, “The environment we currently have to navigate remains enormously challenging.” He added, “But it is especially in such times that the strength of our industry becomes visible. Every three years, the global plastics sector comes together here – and for good reason: K is the place where innovations are launched, partnerships are forged, and visions turn into reality. Plastics have been – and will remain – the most important material of our time. They fuse lightweight design, utility, energy efficiency, with versatility, serving as pioneers of progress in many applications – from medical technology to mobility and energy supply. With improved recycling solutions and circular concepts, they will increasingly become the most sustainable material of our times.”

At the trade fair, machine and plant builders showed how efficiency, precision, and resource savings can be linked through ultra-modern manufacturing systems and live demos. 

The segment of raw and auxiliary materials also convinced the audience with its innovations: from bio-based materials to recycled compounds to new additives that fuse functionality with sustainability, the exhibitors showcased an impressive panoply of solutions for tomorrow’s material development. From highly advanced recycling plants and alternative raw materials to data-driven manufacturing systems to strategies for talent promotion and resource savings.

Kaku Kohli, CEO, Kohli Printing and Converting Machines, commented about the trade fair, “From Mumbai to Dusseldorf, our journey is powered by passion, precision, and a whole lot of print power. Kohli proudly represents Indian engineering excellence at the global stage — bringing 53 years of innovation to K Show 2025.”

Jikul Purohit, co-founder, Packfora, shared, “Walking through K Show 2025 in Dusseldorf felt less like attending a trade fair and more like stepping into the future of packaging and plastics engineering. Every hall pulsed with innovation, from AI-driven mould intelligence to mono-material circular packaging, from HDPE one-stage ISBM bottles to micro-engraved anti-counterfeit designs.” He added, “What tied it all together was one simple truth: design, data, and digital Intelligence are no longer separate worlds — they are converging into one language of progress.”

Packone Solutions on a social media post remarked, “What an incredible week at K 2025, Dusseldorf, filled with innovation, collaboration, and inspiring conversations that are shaping the future of flexible packaging and converting technologies.”

With the successful closing of K 2025, the next K will be held in Dusseldorf from 18 to 25 October 2028.