K is the leading business platform for the plastics and rubber industry. As the world’s leading trade fair, K 2025 is your global highlight: for pioneering innovations and developments as well as visionary impulses. Industry and research from all over the world will present future perspectives and solutions in Düsseldorf, Germany. K-Fair features more than 3,000 exhibitors from over 50 countries and and has more than 175,000 visitors from all over the world.

Product categories present at K-Fair:

1. Machinery and Equipment: Machines and equipment for the plastics and rubber industry are eagerly awaited again this year. Almost 1,800 international exhibitors presented their latest products in this field at K 2022 – including, of course, well-known manufacturers such as Reifenhäuser, Arburg, ENGEL and KraussMaffei and more. Exhibitors from the e.g. following sectors will be represented:
   • Machines and equipment for processing and recycling,
   • Processing and downstream machinery,
   • machines and equipment for finishing, decorating, printing and marking,
   • welding machines,
   • process automation,
   • peripheral equipment
2. Raw materials, auxiliaries: The basis of an optimal end product is the initial situation – excellent results are only achieved with the best possible raw and auxiliary materials. The overall result depends on the plastics used. K is the meeting place to gather information about raw materials and auxiliaries, experience live product examples and connect with manufacturing companies. At K 2022, exhibitors’ profiles included:
   • Thermoplastics and thermoplastic elastomers,
   • resins and compounds,
   • foams and precursors,
   • recycled materials,
   • rubbers,
   • Synthetic fibres,
   • adhesives and glues,
   • additives,
   • Reinforcing fibres and materials,
   • polymerisation auxiliaries
3. Plastics Products and Processing: The basis of an optimal end product is the initial situation – excellent results are only achieved with the best possible raw and auxiliary materials. The overall result depends on the plastics used. K is the meeting place to gather information about raw materials and auxiliaries, experience live product examples and connect with manufacturing companies. Exhibitors in this segment cover products like
   • Thermoplastics and thermoplastic elastomers,
   • resins and compounds,
   • foams and precursors,
   • recycled materials,
   • rubbers,
   • Synthetic fibres,
   • adhesives and glues,
   • additives,
   • Reinforcing fibres and materials,
   • polymerisation auxiliaries
4. Services and Research Facilities: A good 200 exhibitors such as Carl Hanser Verlag or the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft will present their services at K 2022. Because a forward-looking plastics industry cannot function without research, science and consulting. New materials, machines and technologies are based on their findings. Exhibitors from the e.g. following sectors round up every K-Fair
   • IT services,
   • technical literature,
   • leasing,
   • science and consulting