The Indian Plastics Federation (IPF) is organizing its triennial exhibition “INDPLAS’25” in Kolkata, India, from February 28 to March 3, 2025, at Bishwa Bangla Mela Prangan (Milan Mela), to take advantage of the enormous growth potential and opportunities in the plastic industry in the Eastern region. To capitalize on the development in West Bengal and other Eastern Indian states, this event seeks to draw significant domestic and international players.

The largest sector-specific business-to-business (B2B) international plastics show in the Eastern region, INDPLAS’25, will take place, according to an announcement made today by IPF, one of the oldest plastics industry groups in India. With this tenth installment of the “INDPLAS” series, the whole plastics industry will be housed in one location.

This was announced by Amil Agarwal, Lalit Agarwal, Alok Tibrewala, Ashok P Jajodia, and Shyam Lal Agarwal at a press conference in Kolkata.

Because of its low per capita consumption and easy access to raw materials from companies like Indian Oil Corporation Ltd. in Odisha, Brahmaputra Gas & Cracker Ltd. in Assam, and Haldia Petrochemicals Ltd. in West Bengal, the Eastern area is expected to grow quickly.

The phrase “The Future is East” alludes to the prospects and room for expansion that Eastern India offers the plastics industry. Exhibitors are quite enthusiastic; within 15 days of the online booking opening, approximately 75% of the exhibition space was reserved. It’s possible that the two halls at Bishwa Bangla Mela Ground now won’t be enough to handle all requests, highlighting the area’s unrealized expansion potential. Although Chinese exhibitors are unable to attend due to Indian visa regulations, interest has been expressed by foreign exhibitors from Taiwan, Malaysia, Vietnam, Thailand, Germany, and other nations. It is anticipated that there will be 450 participants, the most ever in INDPLAS history. Manufacturers of machinery, suppliers of raw materials, ancillary services providers, and additive producers, both domestically and internationally, have responded strongly.

INDPLAS’25 is supported by the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers, the Department of Chemicals and Petrochemicals, Government of India, WBIDC, Government of West Bengal, the Indian Chamber of Commerce, Plastindia Foundation, and all leading plastics associations in India.

Priyanka Dutta