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Fakuma: Intensive Recycling and “Green” Materials Typify the Plastics Market

The entire processing sequence is wrapped up in ecologically responsible handling of plastics. What happens today with PE, PS, ABS or PET and CFRP, when...

Plastics Technology is Pushing Lightweight Design

The Fakuma international trade fair for plastics processing presents an extensive overview of all plastics technologies in Friedrichshafen. Streamlined processing of polyurethane,...

Fakuma Brings Together Current Range of Offerings and Concrete Demand

From sports cars to consumer products, from ophthalmic lenses and packaging materials right on up to yoga mats – today, more and more products are made of...

The new record-breaking figures we achieved during the last trade fair year with regard to exhibitor and visitor numbers, as well as the internationalism of our events, are our incentive for trade fair power in 2018!

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Fakuma 2017 – Innovation Driver with Practical Touch

More exhibitors, more exhibition floor space, more expert visitors – all involved parties were highly satisfied: the autumn industry meet held in Friedrichshafen on Lake...

Our sincere thanks go out to all exhibitors and expert visitors for a successful 25^th Fakuma at the Friedrichshafen Exhibition Centre! We published trade fair films here every day covering current trade fair activities:...

The first experts-talk during Fakuma at Lanxess about the subject “Trends for the engine bay”. Guests have been Dr. Anton Wolf, member of the executive board of WOCO and Dr. Thomas Linder, product developer at Lanxess.

More than 1800 Exhibitors from 37 Countries at the 25^th Fakuma.

When the doors open at the Friedrichshafen Exhibition Centre on Lake Constance on the 17^th of October, the region where three nations meet will once again be focused...

Full house for the 25^th birthday of the Fakuma international trade fair for plastics processing at the Friedrichshafen Exhibition Centre: with roughly 1700 exhibitors from 35 countries and a fully occupied exhibition centre in...

Fakuma is the only technical event anywhere in the world to focus on all currently relevant technologies for plastics processing: injection moulding, extrusion, thermoforming and 3D printing. And thus together with the...

Whether new or time-tested materials, new or optimised processing technologies and methods, new or adapted tooling systems, and finally partially or fully automated raw materials and finished parts handling are involved – with...

The plastics processing sequences for injection moulding, extrusion, thermoforming and 3D printing don’t come to an end after parts production. Fundamental constituents of efficient production include downstream processes such as...

Roughly 1700 exhibitors from 35 countries and, at the last Fakuma in 2016, more than 45,000 expert visitors from 120 countries: the international expert audience comes together every 12 months – with scheduled interruptions in the...