Company · News
AP-RubberPlas 2026, Qingdao: hall N5, booth T139
The 23rd Asia Pacific International Plastics and Rubber Industry Exhibition opened 8–11 July 2026 at Qingdao World Expo City. Kerke stood in hall N5 at booth T139 — with the KTE-T triple screw series front and centre in China's rubber machinery heartland.
Quick answer
Kerke exhibited at AP-RubberPlas 2026, the 23rd Asia Pacific International Plastics and Rubber Industry Exhibition, from 8 to 11 July 2026 at the Qingdao World Expo City International Exhibition Center, hall N5, booth T139. The stand invitation featured the KTE-T series co-rotating triple screw extruder, shown with its pelletizing downstream.
What was on the stand
Qingdao is China's rubber machinery and compounding heartland — tyre, rubber goods and mixed plastics-rubber processors all buy in this region — so the stand was built around two messages:
- KTE-T triple screw series. Three co-rotating screws, more split-and-fold events per barrel length, higher free volume and throughput at lower specific energy — aimed at dispersion-limited rubber and plastics compounds.
- Complete downstream. The invitation photo shows the full line: gravimetric feeder, extruder, pelletizing head and belt — one supplier from hopper to bag, the way we quote turnkey.
Why this market
Shandong buys differently from the coastal export clusters. The region runs large mixed plastics-rubber operations — rubber masterbatch, reclaimed and devulcanised feedstocks, cable compounds and high-filler compounds for the tyre supply chain — and the questions at booth T139 came from engineers who know their abrasion numbers by heart. That is a good match for a builder who machines its own liners: the wear package is quoted by material, sized for the duty, and the parts source is the same factory that ground the screws.
AP-RubberPlas closes the 2026 exhibition season for Kerke. The full show list — eleven exhibitions across China, the Gulf, Southeast Asia and Türkiye — is on the news page, and the trial bench in Nanjing runs all year.
The questions we answered
| Question | Answer on the stand |
|---|---|
| Triple screw for rubber masterbatch — why? | Dispersion per barrel metre: more split-and-fold events, lower residence spread, at lower specific energy than a longer twin screw. |
| Abrasive reclaimed rubber — liner life? | Bimetallic liners with PM elements in the duty zones; the wear package is a quotation line item, not a hidden upgrade. |
| Can the downstream be integrated with our bagging line? | Yes — turnkey scope covers feeding to bagging, with the interface tested at the works before shipment. |
| Trial with our rubber compound? | Send 25–50 kg; the lab bench runs it in 3–7 days with pellets, video and the parameter sheet. |
Visit the works instead
Every machine Kerke sells is built and run in one place: screw elements, shafts and barrels are machined in our Nanjing works, gearboxes are assembled and run in for 24 hours, and every line is tested with material before it ships. If the show was busy, the better meeting is at the factory — send 25–50 kg of your material and we run it on a lab extruder in 3–7 days: pellets, running video, temperatures and output per hour.
Related on this site: All exhibition news · Inside the factory · Machine overview · Turnkey scope
FAQ
What will be on the stand at AP-RubberPlas 2026
The KTE-T triple screw series. Hall N5, booth T139 at Qingdao World Expo City.
Can I still get the AP-RubberPlas 2026 stand report?
Yes - write to kerkepm@gmail.com with the show name in the subject; the deck with the machine configurations shown and their measured outputs comes back within one working day.
Which exhibition comes next?
The International Plastics Exhibition in Mexico City - booth A3540, 10-13 November.
Send your material and target output — an engineer replies within one working day with the closest configuration we have already delivered.