Preparations for K 2013 get underway

The Exhibitors Council supports Messe Düsseldorf in planning the trade show and advises it on fundamental strategic and organisational issues. It is composed of representatives from the exhibiting companies and leading industry associations and covers the entire technological breadth of K 2013 – machinery and equipment manufacturing, production of raw materials and auxiliaries, and manufacture of semi-finished products and technical parts made of plastics and rubber.

The Exhibitors Council is again chaired by Ulrich Reifenhäuser, CEO of Reifenhäuser GmbH & Co. KG and chairman of the Plastics and Rubber Machinery Association within the German Engineering Federation VDMA. Vice-chairman is, as before, Dr. Rainer Büschl, Head of Communications, Performance Polymers, BASF SE, who also leads the conceptualisation committee. The organisation committee is once more chaired by Thorsten Kühmann, managing director of the Plastics and Rubber Machinery Association within VDMA.

Further members of the Exhibitors Council are:

• Günter Bachmann, Coperion GmbH
• John Ballantyne, Dow Deutschland Anlagengesellschaft mbH
• Dr. Rüdiger Baunemann, PlasticsEurope Deutschland e. V.
• Dr. Harald Hammer, Borealis AG
• Juliane Hehl, Arburg GmbH & Co KG
• Fritz Katzensteiner, Wirtschaftsverband der deutschen Kautschukindustrie e. V., (WDK, Association of German rubber manufacturers)
• Ulf Kelterborn, Industrievereinigung Kunststoffverpackungen e. V., (IK, Plastic packaging industry association)
• Jan-Udo Kreyenborg, Kreyenborg GmbH
• Felix M. Loose, Agor GmbH
• Dr. Peter Neumann, Engel Austria GmbH
• Michael Rathje, Gesamtverband Kunststoffverarbeitende Industrie e. V., (GKV, Federation of plastics processors)
• Klaus-Uwe Reiß, Mitras Materials GmbH
• Manfred Rink, Bayer MaterialScience AG
• Peter Steinbeck, Windmöller & Hölscher Maschinenfabrik
• Dr. Dietmar Straub, KraussMaffei Technologies AG
• Pascal Streiff, Euromap c/o Swissmem