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PLASTIC JAPAN 2025, Tokyo: hall 3, booth 17-13
The Highly-functional Plastic Expo at Makuhari Messe ran 12–14 November 2025. Kerke was in hall 3 at booth 17-13, showing the lab and pilot end of the KTE platform to Japan's engineering plastics compounders.
Quick answer
Kerke exhibited at PLASTIC JAPAN 2025 — the Highly-functional Plastic Expo — from 12 to 14 November 2025 at Makuhari Messe, hall 3, booth 17-13. This is the show for engineering and functional materials, so the stand carried the precision end of the range: lab and pilot twin screws from 15.6 mm, and the configurations behind small-lot, high-value compounding.
What was on the stand
The conversations at Makuhari had a different shape from volume markets:
- Lab-to-pilot scale-up. The KTE-16/KTE-20 lab units share the screw geometry of the production machines, so a formulation developed at bench scale keeps its character when it grows — the reason R&D groups shortlist us.
- Engineering plastics. PA, PBT and filled engineering compounds where thermal control, not raw torque, decides the lot; low-shear metering and accurate gravimetric feeding carry the weight.
- Pellet quality as a spec. Japanese buyers treat pellet shape, dust and bulk density as product properties — our seven pelletizing methods exist exactly for this.
Why this market
Japan's compounding segment buys small lots of high-value materials, and its equipment decisions are evidence-driven: measured data, repeatability, and documentation. That matches how Kerke already works — every quotation is backed by a 3–7 day trial on your material, with temperatures, screw speed, feeder settings and kg/h measured and written down, and every delivered machine test-run with material before shipment with the record included.
Makuhari also confirmed where the bar sits for functional materials: tighter temperature windows, cleaner pelletizing and feeding accuracy measured in grams. Those are configuration and control questions, which is why we bring the gravimetric feeding and downstream scope into the same quotation instead of leaving them to integrators.
The questions we answered
| Question | Answer on the stand |
|---|---|
| How small a lab line do you build? | KTE lab units from 15.6 mm screw diameter — bench-scale, with production-machine geometry. |
| Can trial data predict the production line? | Same platform, scaled by L/D and speed; the trial report becomes the commissioning baseline. |
| Pellet dust limits? | Pelletizing method is selected for the spec — strand, underwater, die-face and others, each with its own dust profile. |
| Documentation standard? | English manual, electrical drawings, spare parts list and the factory run record ship with every machine. |
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.
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FAQ
What was on the stand at PLASTIC JAPAN 2025
Engineering plastics compounding and lab-scale lines. Hall 3, booth 17-13 at Makuhari Messe.
Can I still get the PLASTIC JAPAN 2025 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?
Chinaplas 2026 in Shanghai (Hall 6.1, booth D46, April) and the International Plastics Exhibition in Mexico City (booth A3540, November).
Send your material and target output — an engineer replies within one working day with the closest configuration we have already delivered.