Where Manufacturing Experts Come to See What's Next
Manufacturing experts are being asked to move faster, automate more, improve efficiency, and make smarter investments. At the same time, new materials and digital tools are changing what's possible.
At NPE2027, manufacturing experts can explore these changes in one place.
NPE is more than a place to see what's new, it's the place to see what's next. It's where plastics professionals can determine what is useful, what is possible, and what could make the biggest impact on your business.
See Manufacturing Innovation in Action
For manufacturing experts, seeing new technology at work can answer questions that a product sheet or sales presentation can't. How does it perform? Where could it fit? What could it change about your operation?
NPE2027 brings machinery, automation, materials, and services together so you can compare solutions firsthand. The show's five technology zones make it easy to navigate through those innovations based on interest and business needs.
The Manufacturing Services Zone brings together automation, prototyping, conformal cooling, and new 4D applications to help manufacturers build smarter and scale faster. Across the rest of the show floor, attendees can explore developments in materials science, bottling, recycling, moldmaking, tooling, and process improvement.
NPE2027 gives you the chance to compare approaches, ask detailed questions, and evaluate solutions against the realities of your own operation.
Turn New Ideas into Practical Knowledge
Finding new technology is only part of the equation. The real value comes from understanding where it fits and how it can improve the way they work.
Education Sessions & Tracks
More than 90 show floor sessions and eight education tracks connect show-floor discovery with practical learning.
Show Floor Tours
Expert-led tours focused on advanced manufacturing, packaging, sustainability and circularity, and future technologies.
Education Sessions
Education sessions at NPE2027 connect what attendees see on the show floor with the knowledge needed to evaluate it. More than 90 show floor sessions across the Innovation, Packaging, and Sustainability stages will feature emerging technologies, case studies, and industry expertise. Classroom sessions provide deeper learning around topics such as artificial intelligence, workforce development, material characterization, and manufacturing innovation.
Education Tracks
Eight education tracks give you additional ways to focus your NPE2027 experience around the challenges and opportunities most relevant to your business.
Show Floor Tours
Eight expert-led show floor tours offer a guided look at key technologies and exhibitors, with tours focuses on niche areas like advanced manufacturing, packaging, sustainability and circularity, and future technologies.
Together, these experiences help leaders move quickly from discovering new ideas to understanding how they could work in practice.
Find Solutions Across Industries
Manufacturing challenges rarely stay within one industry. One of the major advantages of attending NPE is seeing how different industries are using plastics technologies to solve problems that look familiar to your own operation. That cross-industry perspective can surface ideas you might not encounter otherwise. Here are some examples:
Automotive and transportation
Automative and transportation leaders can explore materials, machinery, tooling, and processes supporting lightweighting, vehicle performance, efficiency, and next-generation mobility.
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Packaging
Packaging professionals can investigate flexible and rigid packaging, high-speed production, materials, additives, recycling, and bioplastics while gaining additional insights at the Packaging Stage.
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Medical
Healthcare manufacturers can discover medical-grade materials, precision manufacturing technologies, injection molding, additive manufacturing, and solutions supporting demanding healthcare applications.
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Consumer Products
Consumer product manufacturers can evaluate rapid prototyping, advanced manufacturing, moldmaking, materials, and production technologies designed to improve product performance and speed development.
Learn More >This cross-industry environment gives manufacturers the chance to borrow ideas from outside their usual field and make new connections that can lead to new approaches.
Bring Your Biggest Manufacturing Challenges
Manufacturing experts arrive with different priorities:
NPE2027 brings together the people and technologies behind those solutions to help you evaluate your next move.
That practical focus is at the center of the NPE2027 experience. The show is designed to help you discover the tools, technologies, and ideas you can take back to your teams.
For leaders making decisions about equipment, processes, materials, and investments, the concentration of expertise is invaluable. Five days on the show floor can provide a broader view of the market, more informed conversations, and a stronger basis for decisions that come next.
Build Smarter. Scale Faster.
From May 3-7, 2027, more than 51,000 plastics professionals and 2,200 exhibitors from more than 130 countries will come together in Orlando. Across 1.1 million net square feet, attendees can see and compare the equipment, materials, technologies, and ideas shaping the future of plastics manufacturing.
The next era of manufacturing will not be driven by one machine, material, or technology. It will be shaped by how manufacturers bring them together to improve operations, respond to changing markets, and create better products.
Attend NPE2027 to build new relationships, compare solutions side by side, and get a clearer view of what can help you get a step ahead.
Leave NPE2027 ready to build smarter, scale faster, and put what's next to work.