CHEMUK records a 41% increase in visitors

CHEMUK 2023 opened its doors on May 10 and 11 at the NEC in Birmingham to a record attendance of 3956 visitors (excluding exhibitor staff) over the two days, representing an increase of 41% from the 2022 edition. The total two-day attendance (visitors plus exhibitors) was 5559.

CHEMUK show founder, Ian Stone, summed up this year’s event: “The industry is now responding to the single destination experience of CHEMUK which provides deliberately segmented zones of specialist industry capability and solutions, supported with unmissable intelligence, whilst at the same time uniting the entire UK chemical industry’s value chain under one roof annually.”

A dedicated video address from the Minister of State at the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, George Freeman, underpinned a comprehensive UK Government presence and input across the two days, with show floor presence and vital conference input from the Department for Business and Trade, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, and Health and Safety Executive.

Sustainability was the common thread across the event this year, with progressive energy and emissions reduction solutions, process optimisation and greater operational efficiency of petrochemical-based plants, through to a wealth of coverage on developing ‘green chemistry’ innovation, supporting the transition towards bio-based chemicals and downstream products. Industrial biotechnology and bio-process innovations were reflected across all three zones and through the conference programmes.

CHEMUK has become the destination in the UK where all the key bodies, major companies, and industry stakeholder groups embracing organic and inorganic synthetics, formulation chemistry, analytical and materials chemistry, industrial biotechnology, and chemical and process engineering are predictably in the same time and space, under one giant roof, alongside a wealth of downstream chemical-dependent industries.

CHEMUK 2024 is scheduled to run on May 15 and 16, 2024, at the NEC, Birmingham.