Manufacturing benefits from Interplas 05 and Penton Exhibitions

Interplas 05 and the Penton Media Manufacturing Exhibitions will exhibit alongside each other next year in a move that is set to inspire and attract increased numbers of quality purchasers and engineers to all events.

The five Penton shows – Design Engineering Show, Computers in Manufacturing (CIM), Time Compression Technologies, Inspex and Tooling and Interplas 05 - the UK’s premier and triennial plastics exhibition - will take place alongside each other at the NEC, Birmingham on October 4-6, 2005.

Interplas will be staged in Halls 4 and 5 of the NEC and the Penton exhibitions will be placed next door in Halls 3 and 3a.

‘This is a clear case where the whole will be greater than the sum of the parts and a ‘win-win’ opportunity will be given to exhibitors and visitors alike,’ says Chris James, Interplas 05 marketing manager at Reed Exhibitions. ‘This is not any kind of merger but a simple co-location. All exhibitions will retain their unique identity and management, but will now make big benefits from simply being in the same place at the same time.’

‘The Penton-based exhibitions for example,’ says James, ‘will now guarantee an increased flow of designers, researchers and technologists into Interplas 2005. Plastics is key to the future of UK general manufacturing and Interplas 05 exhibitors will now be visited by a ready new pool of potential customers – engineers, designers, specifiers, machine-builders - that would not necessarily have travelled to a stand-alone plastics event.’

Conversely, says James, ‘the Penton exhibitions will immediately benefit from the biggest possible and wholesale introduction to the world of plastics manufacturing. Most Interplas 05 visitors – while shopping for machinery and materials solutions – will also be extremely interested in matters of design, technology and engineering and will take their interest to the solutions in the adjacent halls.’

All exhibitions are also set to benefit from the new market focus provided by Interplas 05. Three new specialist Market Zones for next year’s Interplas exhibition have been created for the top value-added sectors of medical, packaging and automotive.

‘Thanks to our early door pre-registration policy,’ says Interplas marketing manager Chris James, ‘automotive customers such as Renault, Ford, Aston Martin and Bentley, for example, have already signed up to visit Interplas 05.’

Not only will these kinds of visitors be visiting the new Automotive Market zone at Interplas 05, they will now also be able to sample the engineering tools and techniques shown at Penton exhibitions. Interplas 05 visitors and major brands in packaging and in healthcare manufacturing will also be able to travel the same route.

Visitors to the co-located shows will benefit from free and seamless access to all the exhibitions.

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