With a tendency of moving from hydraulic to electric, some companies have gone to hybrid hydaulic-electric, and others such as BEKUM and General Plastics have a new generation of fully electric blow molding machines. Advantages of these fully electric machines, are clean environment, especially important for food and medical applications, as well as energy savings and precision. Energy savings of up to 40% have been reported.

There were 3,130 exhibitors at the K2007 compared to 2,904 at the K2004. Of these, 1,138 were from Germany. The remaining 1,992 came from:

464 from Italy
154 from China
144 from USA
132 from Taiwan
114 from UK
106 from France
103 from Switzerland
83 from Austria
688 from other countries

The percentage break-down is shown in the pie-chart below.

The 3,130 exhibits represented various industries:

1,897 machine manufacturers
611 materials suppliers
463 Processors
159 Service