The twenty-ninth edition of Fakuma, the international plastics fair, a well-established event for the injection moulding industry, closed a few days ago in Friedrichshafen, on Constance Lake.
The numbers provided by the organisers speak of 1,639 exhibitors (3 more than in 2023) and 36,675 visitors over the five days of the event.
Slightly less than half of the exhibitors came from abroad, a slight increase over last year’s 44%: 170 came from China, which thus overtook Italy (142 companies, a dozen more than last year), then 81 from Switzerland, 77 from Austria and 51 from Turkey, just to name the main ones. As for this year’s attendance, visitors were less than last year: 36,675 versus 39,343, still far from the 48,375 of 2018 and the 47,650 of 2019, before the Covid stop. Fakuma will return to Lake Constance in two years’ time, from 13 to 17 October 2026, since – as is tradition – it skips the years when K is held in Dusseldorf, so as to avoid unnecessary overlaps.

Source: https://www.polimerica.it/articolo.asp?id=32720