Mauro Delle Fratte, Exhibition Manager of Ecomondo 2025 at Italian Exhibition Group, the event organiser, highlighted the impressive scale of the 28th edition. Over four days, the fair brought together more than 1,700 exhibitors from 30 countries, welcomed over 100,000 visitors, and hosted 20 high-level conferences. As a leading platform dedicated to the circular economy, Ecomondo covers the entire recycling value chain, with a strong focus on plastics waste management. This year’s edition also featured, for the first time, a special report on chemical recycling. Delle Fratte announced that the next edition of Ecomondo will take place in Rimini from 3 to 6 November 2026, extending a special invitation to Polish companies and associations to participate.
During Ecomondo 2025, Daniel Wienand from Vecoplan presented one of the company’s flagship technologies – a single-shaft shredder designed for a wide range of plastics and recycling applications. Vecoplan is a leading specialist in shredding systems and complete waste-treatment solutions for various industries. Wienand highlighted the company’s strong presence in Poland, where it has been active for over a decade and now considers it one of the most dynamic and promising markets in Europe, particularly in RDF and plastics recycling. He emphasized that Ecomondo remains an important annual meeting point for the recycling industry, offering valuable opportunities to connect with customers and partners from across the Italian and European markets.
During Ecomondo 2025, Paola Crea from FIMIC Srl emphasized the growing importance of the fair for plastic recyclers, noting that it has become a key event for the company in recent years. FIMIC presented two new filtration models designed to handle highly contaminated materials and ensure stable pressure throughout the recycling process. Crea also highlighted the company’s partnership with Nordson, which provides complementary technologies for the Italian market. She described Ecomondo as a highly valuable event with excellent attendance and confirmed FIMIC’s plans to participate again in the future.
João Lagoa from Plasmaq (Portugal) spoke about the family company’s 33-year history in the recycling industry. Plasmaq supplies complete washing lines – from the guillotine to the final silo feeding downstream processes. At K 2025, the company highlighted its key innovation, the Plascompact, a screw press designed for the drying phase of the washing cycle. The system stabilizes moisture and density, ensuring consistent material conditions and higher throughput in extrusion. Lagoa emphasized that the K show is a vital event for anyone in the plastics industry – a place to exchange knowledge, connect globally, and advance sustainability and recycling technologies.
László Bűdy from MyCEPPI Plastics Consulting summarizes this year’s Central European Plastics Meeting in Budapest, which gathered 450 participants and nearly 1,500 meetings. The key topics included the difficult situation of the European plastics industry, the urgent need to restore competitiveness, and the support required for the recycling sector threatened by bankruptcies. The declaration adopted called for harmonized EU waste standards and mandatory use of recyclates in selected products. The next edition will take place in June in Novi Sad, Serbia.
Dr. Alexander Weiser, Senior Vice President Performance Materials Europe at BASF, shares how the company is moving toward a circular economy through its “Make – Use – Recycle” strategy. He highlights real-world applications developed with partners, such as recyclable flexible foams and battery system components, as well as digital tools like the Pacific app. At K 2025, BASF aims to demonstrate not just ideas, but concrete examples of how circularity works in practice—showcasing that plastics remain an essential, forward-looking industry.
Marcel Perrevort, CSO of Reifenhäuser Group, shares what visitors can expect at K 2025. Under the motto "Boost Your Performance," the company will present innovations in blown film, cast, and sheet extrusion - including new cooling technologies, automation features, and AI-driven solutions. He also highlights the importance of operator training and emphasizes K as the industry's key event for showcasing cutting-edge technology.
At the Pre-K event, EREMA Group presented its major innovations for K 2025 in Düsseldorf, focusing on plastics recycling and the circular economy.
Chemical recycling: EREMA unveiled its largest CHEMAREMA 2325 extruder to date and announced plans for the even larger CHEMAREMA 2628, capable of processing up to 4.5 t/h of melt. The company also showcased AGGLOREMA, a pre-treatment system designed to handle heavily contaminated, moist feedstock-transforming it into compact, transportable pellets ideal for downstream chemical recycling. The solution reduces both costs and contamination.
Digitalization: Through its Blueport and re360 platforms, EREMA offers IoT connectivity, spare parts ordering, remote assistance, and predictive maintenance-features available even for older machines, ensuring long-term operational support.
Post-consumer polyolefin recycling: New large-format INTAREMA TVEplus systems and the TwinPro setup—combining a pre-conditioning unit with a twin-screw extruder—improve the processing of low-density films and support compliance with EU PPWR goals, such as achieving 10% PCR in sensitive packaging.
Joint venture with Lindner: This collaboration integrates sorting, washing, and extrusion into one continuous process. The system enables energy recovery (e.g. from granulation to drying), centralized control, and reduced downtime-delivering a fully automated, high-efficiency recycling solution.
All featured technologies will be demonstrated live at K 2025, including at the outdoor EREMA–Lindner booth.
Markus Bauer, Managing Director KraussMaffei Technologies/EVP Global Service, presents key highlights for K 2025. The company will unveil a new, highly energy-efficient PX injection molding series, a process innovation for chopped glass fiber compounds, and a modular automation cell for assembly and inspection. Also featured: the next-gen PowerPrint Flex for large-scale additive manufacturing, offering up to 70 kg/h output. KraussMaffei continues to emphasize strong global service support for machines up to 30 years old.
Jochen D. Hardt, VP Global Marketing Mobility at Covestro, presents the company’s plans for K 2025. Their booth will feature an open and interactive concept with five key topic areas, including sustainability and circular economy.
A major highlight will be the “People Mover” - an autonomous e-shuttle developed with over 10 partners, entirely built using Covestro materials such as polycarbonate and recycled content. It’s a government- and EU-funded project demonstrating real-world applications and material innovation.
Covestro will also showcase new material concepts like Arfinio, a lightweight solid surface material, and easy-to-recycle monomaterial solutions. In digital innovation, the company is advancing with realistic digital twins of materials – fully integrated into Autodesk for design simulation and virtual prototyping.
Other highlights include car-to-car recycling projects and a strong focus on regulations shaping future material use in automotive and electronics sectors.
At the K 2025 Preview, Dr. Maarten Veevaete, Director Application Center at DOMO Engineering Plastics Europe, presents the company’s comprehensive portfolio of recycling technologies—including mass balance, depolymerization, mechanical, and physical recycling—designed to meet diverse customer requirements. He also highlights key innovations such as lightweight, safety-focused solutions for e-mobility, and the launch of Technyl MAX, a high-performance material engineered to replace metal in more efficient water management systems.
Dr. Frank Szimmat, Managing Director KraussMaffei Technologies/EVP Global RPM, presents key highlights for K 2025. The company will showcase advancements in ColorForm technology - now scaled for large automotive parts with high-speed polyurethane coating - and industrialized polyurethane recycling for refrigerator insulation foams, enabling up to 25% recycled polyol in production. A new metering system with full digitalized process control and modern HMI will also be on display.
