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This is an internet community about the SPI's NPE 2009 International Plastics Showcase to be held in Chicago June 22-26. If you interested in the NPE this site can provide information, links and the opportunity to discuss and learn about this major plastics show. The best way to get started is to JOIN this site AND this group.
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NPE2009: The International Plastics Showcase will take place June 22-26, 2009, at Chicago’s McCormick Place. Nearly 2,000 companies will exhibit on 1 million square feet (93,000 square meters), more than a third of them coming from outside the United States. Approximately 75,000 plastics professionals from 120 countries are expected to attend. The event is produced by SPI: The Plastics Industry Trade Association.
For the first time, NPE is co-locating with the industry’s most renowned technical conferences to give you the largest educational program ever offered at an international plastics tradeshow, along with several co-located events and the first ever International Plastics Design Competition.
Founded in 1937, SPI is the plastics industry trade association representing the third largest manufacturing industry in the United States. SPI's member companies represent the entire plastics industry supply chain, including processors, machinery and equipment manufacturers and raw materials suppliers. The U.S. plastics industry employs 1.1 million workers and provides nearly $379 billion in annual shipments.
60 Going On 63! Why NPE????
Why not? What better venue for branding your company, introducing new products, new technology, gathering sales leads and securing purchasing orders than being part of a one million plus exhibition area with 70-80,000 prospects in one of the best exhibition facilities (McCormack Place) in one of the most exciting cities (Chicago) in the world! All coming to you in a week of action packed days.
My first NPE experience was as an exhibitor in 1968 at the International Amphitheater, Chicago, (before McCormick Place was built), 360 exhibitors, 215,000 square feet and 40,000 visitors. NPE 2009 – 43 years later; projected to be one million plus square feet, 2000 exhibitors and 80,000 visitors! Held once every three years, NPE is a marketing manager’s dream come true. NPE provides an opportunity to showcase your company, products and technology at a very reasonable cost. The expanded educational conference and the extra effort to attract the international crowd, expected to be 20% of attendees is dramatic.
Some new SPI initiatives remain to be proven, ie.; the new West building designated as a quiet zone, highlighted with the “Technology Center”. The amount of prime space dedicated to Specialty Pavilions and Industry Associations. The booth numbering system may prove to be confusing. The partnering with SPE on conferences is long over due but will it be successful? The multitude of commercial opportunities for companies to purchase remains to be validated.
Despite these unanswered questions, NPE is the best value for your company marketing dollars, especially in an economic downturn which mandates creativity and resourcefulness on all organizations to survive. NPE 2009 –Make it work for you!
From a cost standpoint the value doesn’t get any better. Certainly not telephone solicitations. Not direct mail campaigns. Not trade media exposure. Not even weekly “newspaper” commitments. The internet if you understand its potential and complexity with its greater lasting potential---will be the subject of my next communication.
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