Why will NPE2009 be a “must” for the international plastics industry press?
NPE is a truly global show, and NPE2009 will be the world’s largest plastics event. This international stature is reflected in the range of exhibitors: 1) over 600 firms coming directly from outside the U.S.; 2) nearly all of the major multinational suppliers of plastics equipment and raw materials, both U.S.-based companies and U.S. subsidiaries of firms based in Europe, Asia, and the Americas; and 3) the largest number of U.S. domestic suppliers of plastics technologies to exhibit at any plastics event anywhere. Many of these American suppliers will be looking to export or establish connections with firms outside the U.S. In turn, the U.S. itself represents a major market for companies based elsewhere. NPE2009 will be the Western Hemisphere’s greatest plastics trade show, representing the third-largest manufacturing industry in the United States and a $ 400-billion business sector for the signatories of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Among U.S. manufacturing exposit
