{"id":2387,"date":"2026-11-10T14:05:19","date_gmt":"2026-11-10T06:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kerkepm.com\/company\/news\/vietnamplas-2025-ho-chi-minh\/"},"modified":"2026-11-11T13:13:57","modified_gmt":"2026-11-11T05:13:57","slug":"vietnamplas-2025-ho-chi-minh","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/kerkepm.com\/es\/company\/news\/vietnamplas-2025-ho-chi-minh\/","title":{"rendered":"VietnamPLAS 2025, Ho Chi Minh City: booth B130"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"k3\">\n<div class=\"wrap\"><div class=\"crumbs\"><a href=\"\/\">Home<\/a><span>\/<\/span><a href=\"\/company\/\">Company<\/a><span>\/<\/span><a href=\"\/company\/news\/\">News<\/a><span>\/<\/span>VietnamPLAS 2025<\/div><\/div><div class=\"wrap\"><div class=\"hero\">\n<p class=\"kicker\">Company \u00b7 News<\/p>\n<h1>VietnamPLAS 2025, Ho Chi Minh City: booth B130<\/h1>\n<p class=\"dek\">VietnamPLAS 2025 ran 17\u201320 September at the SECC in Ho Chi Minh City. Kerke shared booth B130 with GCMT, showing the KTE twin screw platform and two-stage lines to Vietnam's masterbatch, WPC and recycling processors.<\/p>\n<div class=\"byline\"><div><b>Dates<\/b> 17\u201320 September 2025<\/div><div><b>Venue<\/b> SECC, Ho Chi Minh City<\/div><div><b>Booth<\/b> B130<\/div><div><b>Focus<\/b> Masterbatch \u00b7 WPC \u00b7 recycling<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"wrap\"><div class=\"grid\"><main>\n<nav class=\"wp-block-rank-math-toc-block k3-toc\" aria-label=\"On this page\"><b>On this page:<\/b><a href=\"#s1\">Quick answer<\/a><a href=\"#s2\">What was on the stand<\/a><a href=\"#s3\">Why this market<\/a><a href=\"#s4\">The questions we answered<\/a><a href=\"#s5\">Visit the works instead<\/a><\/nav>\n<figure class=\"nhero\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/news-vietnamplas-2025.webp\" alt=\"VietnamPLAS 2025 invitation poster \u2014 Nanjing Kerke Extrusion Equipment with GCMT, booth B130, SECC Ho Chi Minh City, 17\u201320 September 2025\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1415\"><figcaption>The VietnamPLAS invitation, as issued \u2014 booth B130, SECC, 17\u201320 September.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<section class=\"qa\" id=\"answer\"><h2 id=\"s1\">Quick answer<\/h2><p>Kerke exhibited at <strong>VietnamPLAS 2025<\/strong>, Vietnam's international plastics and rubber exhibition, from <strong>17 to 20 September 2025<\/strong> at the Saigon Exhibition and Convention Center (SECC), booth <strong>B130<\/strong> \u2014 shared with our partner GCMT, whose local team handled the Vietnamese-language conversations.<\/p><\/section>\n<div class=\"stats\"><div class=\"stat\"><b>17\u201320 Sep<\/b><span>dates<\/span><\/div><div class=\"stat\"><b>B130<\/b><span>booth<\/span><\/div><div class=\"stat\"><b>WPC \u00b7 recycling<\/b><span>focus<\/span><\/div><div class=\"stat\"><b>3\u20137 days<\/b><span>material trial at the works<\/span><\/div><\/div>\n\n<h2 class=\"sec\" id=\"s2\">What was on the stand<\/h2>\n<p>Three applications dominated at the stand:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>WPC and wood-plastic profiles.<\/strong> Vietnam is one of our largest WPC markets; moisture control and wood-fibre feeding drive the screw profile, and the two-stage layout keeps the melt low-shear at the die.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Filler and colour masterbatch.<\/strong> High-loading concentrates for the growing local film and injection base, with wear packages sized for CaCO<sub>3<\/sub>-heavy recipes.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Plastics recycling.<\/strong> PE\/PP flake and film to pellet on two-stage KTE\/SE lines \u2014 the segment growing fastest in Vietnamese project enquiries.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<h2 class=\"sec\" id=\"s3\">Why this market<\/h2>\n<p>Vietnam has become a second home market: filler masterbatch and WPC lines already run in the country in significant numbers, and the recycling build-out is accelerating as export markets tighten recycled-content rules. The processors we met are scaling fast and asking the right question \u2014 not \"what does the machine cost\" but \"who fixes it when a liner wears out.\"<\/p>\n<p>That is where the Kerke structure answers: screws, barrels and liners machined in our own Nanjing works, standard wear parts dispatching in 24\u201348 hours, and a 3\u20137 day material trial at the factory before a line is quoted. The trial \u2014 25\u201350 kg, pellets, video, parameter sheet \u2014 is what a Vietnamese buyer actually takes home from a conversation like B130.<\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"sec\" id=\"s4\">The questions we answered<\/h2>\n<div class=\"tw\"><table><caption><b>Table 1.<\/b> The four questions that came back at booth B130, and the short answers.<\/caption>\n<thead><tr><th>Question<\/th><th>Answer on the stand<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr><td>WPC: how do you handle wet wood fibre?<\/td><td>Pre-drying plus a feeding and venting layout proven on running Vietnamese lines \u2014 set in the trial, not guessed.<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td>Masterbatch at 80% filler without surging?<\/td><td>Feeder, screw profile and temperature profile are tuned on your material; the measured parameters go in the contract.<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td>Recycling flake with moisture?<\/td><td>Two-stage KTE\/SE with vacuum venting; IV and MFR retention measured in the trial run.<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td>Local support in Vietnamese?<\/td><td>GCMT handles first-line contact locally; engineering answers come from Nanjing within one working day.<\/td><\/tr>\n<\/tbody><\/table><\/div>\n\n<h2 class=\"sec\" id=\"s5\">Visit the works instead<\/h2>\n<p>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 <strong>with material<\/strong> before it ships. If the show was busy, the better meeting is at the factory \u2014 send 25\u201350 kg of your material and we run it on a lab extruder in 3\u20137 days: pellets, running video, temperatures and output per hour.<\/p>\n<p class=\"k3-rel\"><b>Related on this site:<\/b> <a href=\"\/company\/news\/\">All exhibition news<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"\/company\/factory\/\">Inside the factory<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"\/machines\/\">Machine overview<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"\/projects\/turnkey\/\">Turnkey scope<\/a><\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"sec\" id=\"faq\">FAQ<\/h2><details><summary>What was on the stand at VietnamPLAS 2025<\/summary><p>WPC, masterbatch and recycling lines for Vietnamese processors. Booth B130, Ho Chi Minh City.<\/p><\/details><details><summary>Can I still get the VietnamPLAS 2025 stand report?<\/summary><p>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.<\/p><\/details><details><summary>Which exhibition comes next?<\/summary><p>Chinaplas 2026 in Shanghai (Hall 6.1, booth D46, April) and the International Plastics Exhibition in Mexico City (booth A3540, November).<\/p><\/details><script type=\"application\/ld+json\">{\"@context\": \"https:\/\/schema.org\", \"@type\": \"FAQPage\", \"mainEntity\": [{\"@type\": \"Question\", \"name\": \"What was on the stand at VietnamPLAS 2025\", \"acceptedAnswer\": {\"@type\": \"Answer\", \"text\": \"WPC, masterbatch and recycling lines for Vietnamese processors. 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The trial bench is still open<\/b><p>Send your material and target output \u2014 an engineer replies within one working day with the closest configuration we have already delivered.<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"acts\"><a href=\"\/get-a-quote\/\">Get a quote<\/a>\n<a class=\"alt\" href=\"\/get-a-quote\/#trial\">Send material for trial<\/a><\/div><\/div>\n<\/main>\n<aside><div class=\"sidecard\">\n<b>Talk to the builder \u2014 not a reseller<\/b>\n<p>Your message goes straight to the engineering team in Nanjing. 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