Oman Plast 2014 on 11-13 February hopes to gain from the Middle East’s soaring investment in plastics and petrochemical production.
The second Oman Plast exhibition, following an inaugural event in March 2012, will showcase technologies for making plastics, petrochemicals, rubber and packaging.
Silver Star, the tradeshow’s organiser, is targeting visitors from Oman and neighbours such as Iran, Saudi Arabia, Yemen and the UAE.
Oman, a leading regional player in petrochemicals, is already set to add capacity.
The Middle East and Africa’s plastics industry is poised to grow by about 30% this year, according to Silver Star.
Polyethylene production in the Gulf is on track to hit 21.5m tons by 2015, more than double the 2009 figure, said the firm.
Polypropylene capacity is forecast to follow a similar trend to touch 9.5m tonnes by 2015.