FESTIVAL LIKE ATMOSPHERE IN ITS 26TH ANNIVERSARY
Annually organized by PAGEV and TÜYAP, the PlastEurasia - 26th International Istanbul Plastic Industry Fair will welcome its visitors between the 7th and 10th of December. The largest annually organised Plastic exhibition in Europe and the second largest in the world, PlastEurasia - International Istanbul Plastic Industry Fair will celebrate its 26th anniversary in a rejoiceful ambiance.
PAGEV is Turkey’s Plastic Industrialist’s Foundation for advancing the Plastic Industry. It has members from Plastic Value Chain that cover %88 of all Plastic Revenue in Turkey. It partners with Fair organizer Tuyap to make this PlastEuroasia exhibition each year.
The PlastEurasia Fair hosted 1143 companies and company representatives from 55 countries, and around 50,000 professional visitors in 2015. Leased space has increased by 28 percent for machinery producers and 18 percent for raw material producers, hitting attendance record high. In 2015, this fair was organized over an indoor area of 100,000 m2, hosting 1134 companies and company representatives, visited by 47,306 professionals.
INDUSTRY GIANTS IN ISTANBUL
Exhibitors from China, other Far Eastern countries and Europe in particular will join the largest industry brands from all over Turkey in this fair by PAGEV, having the opportunity to become familiar with innovations in plastics and the most recent technologies. Producers will offer their newest products to the customers in the 26th International Istanbul Plastics Industry Fair. Hosted buyers from various countries will sign vital agreements.
PLASTICS BOOST THE ECONOMY BY 12 BILLION DOLLARS
Yavuz Eroğlu, the Chairman of the Executive Board of PAGEV, explained that Turkish plastics industry is second in Europe and sixth in the world and continued, "The Turkish plastics industry invests $800 million on machinery per annum. 14,000 companies employ 250,000 people, exporting to 175 countries. Our total export is $12 billion on value basis, $6 billion direct and $6 billion indirect.
