"Shaping" Fashion ": CHINAPLAS 2025 sports trend event

[Shenzhen, April 2025] CHINAPLAS 2025, the world's leading plastics and rubber exhibition, will be held in Shenzhen International Convention and Exhibition Center (Bao 'an) from April 15 to 18. As a bellwether for the global plastics industry, the exhibition will bring together the world's top technologies, innovative materials and advanced manufacturing solutions, attracting many industry leaders, experts and enterprises to discuss the future trend of plastics technology.

In recent years, environmental protection and sustainable development have become an important issue in the global sporting goods industry. CHINAPLAS 2025 specially launched a new concurrent event - "Plastic" fashion ", specially designed for the sportswear and sporting goods industry, showcasing breakthrough innovative technologies and environmentally friendly materials, promoting the integration of green rubber and plastic technology and fashion design, providing innovative inspiration for the sports industry, and helping manufacturers to transform to the direction of low-carbon environmental protection.

The event aims to help manufacturers gain insight into consumer needs and adopt environmentally friendly production methods to achieve sustainable growth. The exhibition focuses on the latest application achievements of sports goods, functional sports apparel, environmentally friendly footwear and wear series made of modified recycled plastics and bio-based polymer materials. There will be three sports product theme areas to display running, cycling, golf, yoga and other sports clothing and supplies, bringing together 17 companies to display nearly 60 breakthrough products in the field of sports.

"Plastic" move "fashion" innovative product highlights
Sports apparel field:

· BASF will showcase eco-friendly outdoor jackets made from fluoride-free durable, waterproof and breathable solutions that combine excellent moisture and water permeability.

· Avant introduces thermal clothing with Cesa™ infrared thermal storage additive, which significantly heats up in light and improves thermal performance.

· Wanhua Chemical applies micro-foam precision injection molding technology to create lightweight sports shoes, reduce warping deformation, improve dimensional stability, and shorten the molding cycle.

· In addition, there are biodegradable PBS, PBAT sports short sleeves, bio-based PTT double yarn coats that are easy to blend, cool T-shirts with fast thermal conductivity and moisture absorption functions, etc.

Sports goods field:

Dow introduces SURLYN™ ion-polymer resin for ice hockey helmets with excellent low-temperature impact toughness, gloss and durability.

· Ogilvy & Kay brings golf carts made of ColorFast™ HGA high-gloss modified engineering plastics that combine outstanding high-gloss appearance with outdoor weather resistance.

· In addition, there are 20% PCR rPOE yoga mat, super weather and high temperature resistant multi-color patchwork temperature control color-changing basketball, recycled polyolefin sports Frisbee and so on

"Shaping" Fashion "salon sharing meeting
In addition to the cutting-edge product display, "Plastic" Fashion "will hold three themed salons from April 15 to 17 to explore the sustainable application of plastic technology in the sporting goods industry:

· Environmentally friendly plastics help sporting goods innovation

· Technology reshapes sports equipment without limits

· Reveal the fashion trends and ways of adding value to sports fashion

Well-known brands such as Nike, MLB and Anta will gather together with technology experts, designers and fashion consultants from different fields to explore the diversified solutions of sustainable materials and smart new technologies to bring fashion, comfort and performance in sports and leisure applications. Industry experts will share how technological breakthroughs and green manufacturing continue to optimize product performance while driving the development of environmentally friendly technologies to exceed industry standards and meet consumer expectations for high-quality, versatile and sustainable products. Participants will gain cutting-edge insights on the application of rubber and plastics technology, on-trend product design and efficient production practices. Speaker companies include Tongji University, Hong Kong Productivity Council, BASF, Dow, Avant, Ogilvy, Clariant, Wanhua, Kasai Bio, Rumo, Blue Mountain Tunhe, Huahao, Suomai, Tongtai, Cylon, Tianjinli, WSGN, etc.
Free registration, limited seating
CHINAPLAS 2025 "Shaping" Fashion "is a grand event to promote the transformation of environmental protection new technologies and design achievements, linkage rubber and plastic, sports equipment and fashion industry, and realize the coordinated