“New opportunities through successful marketing” is the theme of the largest European WPC conference, whose fifth edition will attract over 300 interested professionals from 20 countries to the Maritim Hotel in Cologne, Germany: www.wpc-conference.com

The 2012/13 edition presents 80 leading producers of bio-based materials, as well as associations, agencies, engineering and research institutes from 19 countries on 6 continents. There are 15% more subscribers than for the first edition.

With 110 participants from 15 countries, the ‘5th International Congress 2012 on Bio-based Plastics and Composites & Industrial Biotechnology’ has established itself as a major industry meeting-place.

With nearly 300 participants from 21 countries and 30 exhibitors, the 4th German WPC Congress held in Cologne (13th-14th December 2011) once more lived up to its reputation as the industry's leading European event. Organiser nova-Institut and sponsors Reifenhäuser, Werzalit, STAEDTLER and BASF (Innovation Prize) expressed enormous satisfaction, and the sector remains extremely upbeat.

The private research and consultant nova-Institute, based in Huerth (Germany), and the French Competitiveness Cluster Industries and Agro-Resources (IAR) in Laon (France) have signed a partnership agreement involving services to develop a bio-based economy, to give their subscribers additional benefits and to provide potential customers with the best available bio-based solutions on the fast-growing market in bio-based materials

iBIB2011 - The First International Business Directory of Major Suppliers of Bio-based Plastics and Composites Worldwide is Available Now!

 

A new study from the nova-Institut shows higher resource efficiency, climate protection, improved security of raw material supplies and employment benefits through the increased material use of agricultural and forest products. Realignment of the policy framework supporting renewable resources is required.

The company Propper GmbH is using the bio-based plastic PHA in consumer goods for the first time worldwide. The Innovation Award was presented at the 3rd International Congress on Bio-based Plastics and Composites (www.biowerkstoff-kongress.de) for the third time by the nova-Institut and sponsored by the machine manufacturer Coperion.

The Third German WPC Congress www.wpc-kongress.de in Cologne took place on the 2nd-3rd of December 2009. With 300 participants from 26 countries and 30 exhibitors, it continues to establish itself as the leading European congress for the WPC industry. STAEDTLER was awarded the WPC Innovation Award 2009 for its WOPEX pencil.

With the Business Directory for Innovative Biomaterials (BIB'09), a review of the biomaterial market is available for the first time. It focuses on companies producing or distributing biomaterials and their products and presents 50 actors from 6 countries.

Second German WPC-Congress 2007: Wood-Plastic-Composites (WPC) - Increasingly gaining ground in the market, production volumes growing at a two-digit rate and certified qualities.