Plastic Media Partners


South African Plastics Magazines, SA Plastics Rubber + Composites Magazine. International Media partners are: British Plastic & Rubber, Free2Learn it, free online training courses in plastics, Joining Plastics - German Plastics Online and Magazine, Kunststoffe - Europe's leading monthly publication and online website, Modern Plastics, PlasticsNews, PU2PU - Polyurethane Portal, PlastEurope, Plasticker, Polymerupdate.

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South African and International Partners

South African Partners


At 120 locations in 80 countries around the world, the members of German Chamber Network (AHKs) offer their experience, connections and services to German and foreign companies. AHKs are located in all countries which are of special interest for German companies.

AHK's are closely connected to the Chambers of Industry and Commerce (IHKs) in Germany. Together, they support German companies with building up and extending their business relations to foreign countries.
Trade Fairs
We are your one-stop-shop solution on trade fair participation overseas, especially Germany, and increasingly in other Southern African countries.
If you require more knowledge about the Southern African market we can provide compact but comprehensive market overviews, or decisive sector profiles. We regularly prepare individual market studies.



PACKAGiNG & Print Media is a vertically-integrated monthly magazine serving both packaging printers/converters and packaging end users in the FMCG industries. To provide readers whether packaging, printers and converters, or FMCG manufacturers with the most up-to-date information on technological developments affecting their businesses; keeping them abreast of worldwide and local trends in all aspects of packaging, printing, design, materials usage, and other relevant technologies.
Regular editorial coverage includes
General industry news; people on the move; etc
Association News
Prepress and repro for packaging printers
Packaging printing & converting for producers of
       • Corrugated packaging,       
       • Folding cartons,        
       • Flexible packaging,       
       • Rigid plastics packaging,       
       • Glass packaging,       
       • Metal packaging,       
       • Labels (self-adhesive, wet-glue, shrink labels, in-mould labels)
Printing industry advancements
       • Flexography,       
       • Gravure,       
       • Sheet-fed offset litho,        
       • Letterpress,        
       • Screen printing,      
       • Digital
       • Inkjet,       
       • Press ancillaries (vision control, colour control, etc)
Inks and coatings
Packaging Line Developments
       • Filling,       
       • Packing,       
       • Labelling,      
       • Coding & Marking
End-of-Line Developments
       • Palletising,        
       • Logistics,      
       • Distribution
Periodic coverage also includes special reports on
- Food Packaging,
- Beverage Packaging,
- Drug Packaging,
- Cosmetics & Toiletries Packaging,
- Household Products   Packaging,
- DIY/Automotive Packaging
Circulation
PACKAGiNG & Print Media’s circulation list includes senior management at all packaging printers and converters throughout Southern Africa, as well as packaging line managers/packaging specifiers and buyers at all FMCG companies throughout Southern Africa. The journal’s circulation is in excess of 4 000 copies/month – giving it the highest circulation (by 1 000 readers) than its closest industry competitor.
Advertisements in P&PM reach a QUALIFIED readership among your target audience and the magazine offers undisputed leadership in its field with its superior circulation figures.



afrimold International Tradeshow for Mouldmaking and Tooling in South Africa

afrimold

August 16 – 18, Sandton Convention Centre, Johannesburg
DEMAT GmbH now launches its successful concept of EuroMold in Africa.
Following the proven EuroMold model established by our event partner, DEMAT, "afrimold" will include a tradeshow floor, technical conference and networking opportunities all dedicated to advancing business and technology in tooling, moldmaking, design and development.



International Partners : Plastics Publications and Online Plastics Media



BRITISH PLASTICS & RUBBER MAGAZINE ON-LINE,

Plastics Industry News and Events, Reference, Industry Links, and Company Directory.



Free2Learnit

A new concept in interactive learning. A website dedicated to the free download-ability of interactive educational programs for the plastics industry. – It’s a new way of information exchange! In today’s fluctuating world economics, how does your plastics manufacturing company stand – is your organization competing in the global market, or is it struggling against foreign competition? You need to keep your work force up to date on the latest technology and manufacturing practices. Here you will find the tools you need to bolster and keep the edge that you need to succeed. You will find: free, interactive, computer-based training (CBTs), covering a variety of topics of concern to plastic professionals. Thanks to our sponsors, approximately every 6 weeks a new training will be available for download for you to use.


Joining Plastics
- German Plastics Publication + Online
Plastics are today an indispensable part of our everyday life. During their manufacture and assembly, ever more significance is being attached to the joints in this case. JOINING PLASTICS – FÜGEN VON KUNSTSTOFFEN takes account of this development and, as a bilingual title (German/English), deals exclusively with the title subject.
Application-oriented specialist articles indicate the newest developments and the state of the art for series welding and for the joining of plastics in pipeline and tank construction and apparatus engineering. Furthermore, the reader learns everything important from the sections entitled companies, quality management and standardisation, research and development as well as safety at work and environmental protection. Register now and get a sample copy for free!
Target group:
JOINING PLASTICS – FÜGEN VON KUNSTSTOFFEN is intended for specialists involved in joining plastics, especially for machine setters, foremen, technicians, engineers and scientists, design and engineering offices as well as companies dealing with mechanical joining, bonding and laminating.


Kunststoffe international
is published monthly starting January 2007 as the English edition of Kunststoffe – Europe's leading plastics magazine.
With topical articles from Kunststoffe, Kunststoffe international competently provides information in English on technical developments and industry trends. One trade mark: the exclusive insider reports - they form the profile of the magazine as a trend-setting information carrier for the increasingly global performing plastics processors.
Kunststoffe international is published by Carl Hanser Verlag - the number one worldwide for literature on plastics - and is complemented by an online-portal with extensive offers in English.


Modern Plastics

The Global Plastics Magazine, offering supplier database, Online magazine,
Market Updates, Technology Trends etc.

PlasticsNews
The Plastics News Global Group
— owned by Detroit-based Crain Communications Inc. — encompasses three print publications, three Web sites, five e-mail newsletters, two trade shows, more than a dozen conferences, and two industry award programs.
NORTH AMERICA: Plastics News
PRINT: The group's flagship publication, Plastics News, is a 60,000-circulation, weekly newspaper serving primarily the North American market. Founded by Crain in Akron, Ohio, in 1989, it covers the business of the global plastics industry. Plastics News focuses on commercial, financial, legislative and market-related developments worldwide that affect North American plastic product manufacturers and their suppliers and customers. The publication's mission is to report completely, promptly, fairly and accurately, and to provide plastics industry officials with the market information and competitive intelligence they need to do their jobs more effectively.




PU2PU
- Polyurethane Online Information Website, Company Directory, News, Technical Centers, Technical Publications, Networking Plastform for the Polyurethane Industry.



Plastics Information Europe

Your personal information portal
Stay a step ahead of the competition. At www.pieweb.com, for subscribers only, you will find all the facts and details you are looking for, quickly and efficiently, whenever you need them.
Daily news and market data
Polymer prices
Personal archives
PIEWeb offers its subscribers a number of individual features. Compile price charts according to your own preselected parameters or sign up for the e-mail newsletter to get the news fast. The competence and expertise of PIE’s editors assures quality and accuracy.


Plasteurope.com is an English-language information platform for the European plastics industry. It is part of Kunststoffweb GmbH, the leading internet content provider for the plastics industry in German-speaking countries, based at Bad Homburg (near Frankfurt).


Plasticker - The Home of Plastics
Market place for the Plastics Industry - German Plastics Online Website
Plasticker wurde im September 2001 aufgebaut, um die Kunststoffbranche mit Informationen zu versorgen und den Unternehmen und Personen der Branche eine Plattform zur Vermarktung ihrer Produkte zur Verfügung zu stellen.Seitdem verzeichnet Plasticker eine stetig wachsende Zahl zufriedener Nutzer und wir freuen uns über die positiven Reaktionen, die uns erreichen.


Polymerupdate
has grown to become a preferred destination for global players seeking plastics and petrochemical intelligence. Swiftly emerging as a world renowned provider of real time news and price alerts spanning a whole spectrum of products, polymerupdate now has a leading industry presence. Products covered include Crude oil, Naphtha, Aromatics, Olefins, Polyolefins, Commodity Polymers, Feedstocks and Petrochemical Intermediates. Unbiased and independent reporting has helped attract subscribers who include most of the regions leading resin producers, processors, traders, consultant firms, investment bankers, credit rating agencies, as well as front runners in international information services, news and media companies.


MatWeb Material Datasheets

MatWeb, Your Source for Materials Information
What is MatWeb? MatWeb's searchable database of material properties includes data sheets of thermoplastic and thermoset polymers such as ABS, nylon, polycarbonate, polyester, polyethylene and polypropylene; metals such as aluminum, cobalt, copper, lead, magnesium, nickel, steel, superalloys, titanium and zinc alloys; ceramics; plus semiconductors, fibers, and other engineering materials.

K Show Link
It’s K time! The course is set for 2010
What will our everyday life look like in 20 years’ time? What contribution can plastics make to solving important problems? Which potential applications that still appear visionary today will already have been introduced in two decades? These questions will be at the heart of the special presentation at K 2010 in Düsseldorf from 27 October to 3 November 2010. Titled “Visions in Polymers”, the presentation will show with reference to examples from different areas of life what development trends can be discerned and what innovations the industry has in store. Special consideration will be given in this regard to the topics of energy efficiency and resource conservation.

BASF Packaging Link

BASF - Your partner for packaging solutions
Learn more about products, solutions, and innovations from BASF as the raw material supplier of choice for the packaging industry. Whether food, beverages, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals need to be packed, using paper, cardboard, carton, metal or plastics: BASF creates value for its partners at all levels of the value chain, from raw material suppliers to consumer brands.

Plastixportal Sponsors
Plasticsportal is an online marketplace connecting people to the plastics industry of South Africa.
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