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K 2022 will be opening its gates to you on 19 October 2022! Messe Düsseldorf will then become the platform for the international plastics and rubber industry for eight days. Among the more than 3,000 exhibitor companies, there are a few in particular that will be supporting this industry highlight with their topics and expertise – our K 2022 partners!

We are delighted with this support and are therefore proud to present them to you ahead of time:

• Our Platinum Exhibitor AISA Automation Industrielle
• Our Golden Exhibitor Biesse Group
• Our Silver Exhibitors Covestro Deutschland, Davis-Standard and ExxonMobil Petroleum & Chemical

The K team

AISA Automation Industrielle

The future of toothpaste packaging is a recyclable plastic tube.

In recent years stakeholders of consumer goods businesses are demanding more sustainable packaging resource usage. Especially for products packed in plastic which hasn’t been recycled today.

Circular Economy
Consumer’s preferred packaging format for toothpaste has always been the squeezable tube, from metal tubes progress has transformed the toothpaste tube into a metal and plastic laminate structure widely used in the world today. Such laminates aren’t recycled today and rather incinerated in many countries. With today’s focus on sustainability, a circular economy model is desired, where packaging can be recycled and the material reused for packaging production. The largest toothpaste brand Colgate developed a solution where the post-consumer tubes can be recycled and the material reused for the production of HDPE bottles such as containing detergents, for example.

With the Brand owners of the largest global toothpaste brands, Colgate Palmolive, Procter & Gamble, GSK and Unilever adopting this circular economy model for toothpaste tubes in all major markets, a new standard was created and other consumer goods filled in tubes, cosmetics for example, will likely follow the same model.

Business opportunity
Such volume shifts aren’t without challenges, comprising risk and opportunities for the entire packaging supply chain business. Materials change, equipment has to be replaced or adapted and optimised for best efficiency, when running new recyclable tube packaging.

Aisa’s Role
As the leading supplier of tube production equipment for toothpaste and cosmetics in the world, Aisa has been at the forefront facing both challenges and opportunities resulting from this transition. Immersed into topics such as artificial intelligence and automation, our aim is not only to follow the packaging material transition but to lead tube packaging production into the future of the industry 4.0 evolution.

K Show
Visit us on K 22 hall 4 A 35 to get a demonstration of a recyclable toothpaste tube producing machine featuring our latest innovations, intelligent tube production like never before thought possible.

Biesse Group

THE STRENGTH OF A MAJOR GROUP

MATERIA CL, CREATIVE TECHNOLOGY
Materia CL is a range of versatile, compact, 5-axis processing centres designed to meet a wide variety of high-speed machining needs in relation to the milling of advanced and compound materials and special or stratified resins for mould models, the machining of thermoformed elements, unusually shaped three-dimensional elements, and components for the aeronautical sector, boats and the car industry.

Versatility, precision and dynamism are the strengths of the Materia range. Numerical control processing centres that can handle very diverse plastics and composites, guaranteeing precision and constant reliability.

Covestro Deutschland

Davis-Standard

ExxonMobil Petroleum & Chemical

When it comes to innovation, we believe in a collaborative approach that captures collective expertise across the value chain.

At K Fair, we'll be teaming up with our value chain members to demonstrate how our performance polymers are helping our customers create sustainable solutions that are making life better.

Learn more about the many ways ExxonMobil and our OEM and distributor value chain members are advancing sustainable solutions – together.