Gandhinagar, India - According to organizer of the show, the head of the Indian Plastics Foundation revealed that Plastindia, the largest plastics trade show in India, will be moved out of Gujarat and the next exhibition in 2021 will return to New Delhi.
The exhibition will be relocated to the rebuilt Pragati Maidan Exhibition Center in New Delhi.
Sheikh Shariah, chairman of the Indian Plastics Foundation headquartered in Mumbai, said in an interview: 'In 2021, the India Plastics Fair will be relocated to the Pragati Maidan Exhibition Center in New Delhi. The new venue construction is in full swing and most of the venues will be in 2019. Completed before August. '
The plastics exhibition in India is held every three years. In 2015, it was relocated to Gujarat, Gujarat. The most recent exhibition was held in February this year.
The relocation in 2015 was quite controversial. The timing was very sudden and raised questions from some of the exhibition's international partners, including the Düsseldorf Exhibition Company, the organizer of the German K show.
Some Delhi's exhibitors also filed lawsuits at the time, accusing the new government headed by Indian President Narendra Modi to pressure the show and forcing the show to change venues. Before taking over the state power, Modi managed Gujarat.
Critics point out that the hotels in Gandhinagar and nearby Ahmedabad are in short supply and have less traffic options. Compared to Delhi, they have too many limitations.
However, the organizers claimed that the Pragati Maidan Exhibition Center in New Delhi was very outdated and the space was small. They believed that the new Mahatma Mandir exhibition center in Gandhinagar was greatly improved. They also pointed out that Gujarat is an Indian plastic. Make the first big state.
The Indian government is spending 24.5 billion rupees (about US$350 million) to rebuild the Pragati Maidan Exhibition Center. Its exhibition space will be doubled to approximately 1.29 million square feet. The first phase of construction is expected to be in 2019. Completed before May.
The 'Pragati Maidan Exhibition Center' will be completed in the second half of next year and will be a long time away from India's plastics exhibition 2021. 'Shek Sharia said that due to the terms and conditions strictly limited to the completion date and the incentives that were completed earlier than the scheduled date of It may be completed on time.
Some exhibitors expressed dissatisfaction with this year's Indian Plastics Fair. Compared with Delhi, logistics support, hotel room availability and prices were not satisfactory. It was said that high hotel prices would force Indian and foreign exhibitors to reduce the number of exhibitors and scale.
The head of a German equipment manufacturer, complained anonymously about hotel accommodation.
The supervisor said: 'We have to spend three to four times more than usual five-star hotels in Gandhinagar, which forces us to reduce the number of exhibitors. We are now much smaller, mainly because High hotel charges. '
The 2018 exhibition date also conflicts with the 2018 Auto Expo in Delhi, which is one of the largest automotive exhibitions in India. Some people think that the time conflict may cause this plastic. Exhibitors in the automotive industry exhibited a large number of losses.
However, Shek Sharia said that this year's show is very successful.
He said: 'Despite all kinds of restrictions, the exhibition held in Gujarat was very smooth and the number of visitors reached a record high.'
'India's Plastics 2018 exhibition has become one of the largest exhibitions of people traffic. 'He stressed that the six-day exhibition, the number of visitors up to about 245,000, and on the third day of the exhibition hit a record of 69,000 visitors a day. The show attracted nearly 1,800 exhibitors from 44 countries.
In a statement, he said: 'As far as we know, the average number of visitors exceeds 40,000 per day, which is already the highest number of plastic exhibitions around the world.'
Dusseldorf Exhibitions, one of the largest overseas partners of Plastics India, hinted at the change of venue at this year's show.
The Düsseldorf company posted a poster stating that New Delhi was the venue for the Plastics 2021 trade show in India. However, a spokesperson for Düsseldorf Exhibitions did not comment on it during the show.