Due to the developments with the coronavirus in Europe and travel restrictions to Italy, VinylPlus (Brussels / Belgium; www.vinylplus.eu) has postponed its annual “Vinyl Sustainability Forum” in Florence / Italy to 14-15 October 2020. The event was scheduled to run from 6-7 May 2020 – see Plasteurope.com of 27.01.2020. VinylPlus says for those that have already paid the registration free and are not able to attend VSF2020 in October, a full reimbursement will be issued.

Plastics Recyclers Europe (PRE, Brussels / Belgium; www.plasticsrecyclers.eu) has also postponed its “Plastics Recycling Show Europe” (PRSE; www.prseventeurope.com) in Amsterdam, originally to be held 25-26 March 2020 – see Plasteurope.com of 24.01.2020. PRE made the decision following discussions with exhibitors, speakers, pre-registered visitors and the venue. The new dates for PRSE are 27-28 October 2020.

Initially planned to take place from 18-20 March 2020, the SPE’s (Bethel, Connecticut / USA; www.4spe.org) “European Thermoforming Conference” (www.thermoforming-europe.org) in Geneva / Switzerland has been rescheduled to 30 September 2020, running until 2 October 2020 – see Plasteurope.com of 17.01.2020.

Earlier in March, Switzerland banned events involving more than 1,000 people, and certain events in Germany have also been cancelled or postponed – see Plasteurope.com of 02.03.2020 and 05.03.2020. In the meantime, the “Plastics in Automotive Engineering” (PIAE) event organised by VDI-Wissensforum (Düsseldorf / Germany; www.vdi-wissensforum.de) in Mannheim / Germany has now been rescheduled to 28-29 July 2020.

Petcore Europe’s (Brussels; https://petcore-europe.org) first “PET Monomer Recycling Forum” – see Plasteurope.com of 03.03.2020 – is also postponed. The event was scheduled for 16 April 2020 in Brussels, and the new date is yet to be announced.