A total light weight. Just 17.5 kg and a possible material solution for solar aircrafts. This is the seat of the SolarImpulse - the plane that hopefully will one day surround the world only with the power of sunlight.

What's this? Sure! New, better and lighter plastic applications for automobiles. An exhibit of the so called rubber street.

So tiny - so important. Plastics in small pieces.

Pellets - the typical form of delivery for plastics. Due to its many colours and with a bit of human phantasy it shows the German flag in bottle shape - upside down...

The range of products made from colourful pellets is never ending.

Get out of my way! The robot made out of rubber is just a piece of eye catching art.

K 2010 - also a place to raise attention with confronting slogans. Biodegradable and "classical" plastics are to "blame" for this campaign.

Water resistant properties - these make plastics prone to be used in water sports.

Whose fault is this? Visitor taking a close look at the powerful machine - the shredder that hides behind the crushed plastic pieces.

Many different shapes due to the same technology - blow molding creates cases for a variety of uses.

Before the start of K 2010 a lot of heavy work and machine handling was necessary.

Many, many thousands of visitors come during K 2010 - from all over the world.

Colourful presentations draw the visitor's attention.

Huge booths give a lot of space for many large machines - from injection molding machines that can save material and energy to highly flexible automation for the production and packaging of certain objects...

... and a large high speed blow moulding machine.

Some of the machines seem to have great appetite for plastics.

Buzz saw that takes care of big plastic chunks in order to get neat and precisely sawed components.

Fast and precise handling was the subject - the visitors are astonished.

Milling machine for plastics, composites, wood or metals like aluminium. Planes and cars are the ones who profit from this kind of lightweight construction.

The „UC?“ developed by the Swiss company Rinspeed may have a bright future thanks to high tech plastics of Ticona GmbH. The electric car suits two people and is small (2,50 metres in length), due to its electric drive system it does not produce emissions and has a driving range of 120 kilometers with one full battery. The electric drive system is heavy though, a problem that can be solved with high tech plastics that which provide amongst other things for less weight in conjunction with high stability.

The largest facility for blow foil at K 2010 has already beaten all records during its build-up and produces a blue tissue foil in world record time: 1,000 kg per hour. It weighs about 80 tons in total and with a height of 15.50 meters, it is the largest facility at this plastics and rubber show - the largest worldwide itself.

The intelligent glove is called Peregine and it may reduce mouse clicks at the personal computer to zero. Thanks to sensors build into the black glove, a movement of the digits is sufficient to activate more than 30 actions such as double clicks or navigating the cursor.

This briefcase is an example for the innovation potential of German plastics engineering. KraussMaffei presents a world premiere with the ColorForm procedure which revolutionises the production of prefabricated parts with high polish sections. That way it is possible to manufacture plastics products fully automatically in just one step and with many different colours that are scratch resistant. The advantage: Increase of efficiency whilst optimising costs.

Myon is 1.25 meters high, weighs 15 kg, has white "skin", reacts to its surroundings – and is a roboter. It can already recognise objects optically and follow them with the head. It is doing all this on behalf of the research project ALEAR. Scientists are interested in how complex grammatical structures and behaviour in groups of roboters develop.

Bayer MaterialScience has developed a unique concept for a "green" shoe: Nearly 90 per cent of all components are environmentally friendly. The „Ecotrekker“ uses polyurethan on the basis of natural ressources, material for the sole is free of heavy metals and coating as well as glues are free of solvent.