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Extrusion International 2/2016
K 2016: Print@home saves time
and money
Online ticket shop open as
of now
Customised offers for travel
and accommodation
Tickets for K 2016 from 19 to 26 October are available on-
line at as of now. The eTicket offers dual
benefits, as it saves time and money. Visitors can purchase their
tickets online, print them out on their own printers or download
them as codes, and then travel free of charge to the trade fair
by bus and rail. The eTicket is also much cheaper than tickets
bought on site. The 1-day ticket thus costs EUR 49, while the
price over the counter in Düsseldorf is EUR 65. The 3-day ticket
can be had for EUR 108 online, and for EUR 135 over the coun-
ter. Anyone still looking for accommodation during K 2016 is
well advised to make use of the services of Düsseldorf Marke-
ting & Tourismus GmbH (DMT). This subsidiary of the city has
the best overview of the hotels and private rooms available in
Düsseldorf and environs during the world’s No. 1 trade fair for
the plastics and rubber industry and will help you make your
booking. Incidentally, the pressure in the hotel sector has eased
further. Within Düsseldorf’s boundaries alone, some 1,000 new
hotel beds have been created in the last few years, and in the
neighbouring cities (e.g. Essen, Krefeld, Mönchengladbach and
Wuppertal) these are joined by another 900 beds. In the Düssel-
dorf region, roughly 79,000 hotel beds are currently available.
DMT has put together its entire package of services for K 2016
online, so a mouse-click is certainly worthwhile: http://busi-
On top this comes an attractive offer from Messe Düsseldorf,
Deutsche Bahn and DMT specifically for visitors to K 2016 from
all over Germany: the price of the special return ticket (tied to
specific trains and as long as stocks last) to Düsseldorf is:
• EUR 99, 2nd class
• EUR 159, 1st class.
This offer is available online for about three months before the
fair opens.
K 2016 is open daily from 10.00 am to 6.30 pm. All admission
tickets entitle the holder to free travel to and from the fair by
bus, tram/metro and trains within the VRR and VRS integrated
transport systems (2nd class, surcharge-free trains only). Further
information on the transport network can be found at
and
At K 2016, over 3,000 international exhibitors will be presen-
ting their latest developments in the areas of machinery and
equipment for the plastics and rubber industry, raw materials
and auxiliaries, and semi-finished products, technical parts and
reinforced plastics. Some 200,000 trade visitors from all over
the world are expected at the trade fair.