CHEMUK 2025 opened its doors to over 5000 visitors last week (excluding exhibitor staff), making this year’s edition the largest to date and representing a 12% growth from 2024.

The full 2-day attendance, including exhibitors, topped 7500, cementing CHEMUK’s position as the UK’s largest trade show for the chemical, process engineering, and formulated product sectors.

Now in the NEC's largest Hall 5, CHEMUK 2025 presented a record 550+ featured exhibiting companies, spanning some 15,000 sqm, representing literally hundreds of product, technology and service brands supporting industry.

Show founder and CEO, Ian Stone summed up the show, "This year set a new ‘high-water mark’ for CHEMUK’s appeal & influence across the sector, with all metrics yet again on a strong upward trajectory. From 09.30 on Day 1, the show was absolutely buzzing with engagement and busy aisles in every corner of the giant Hall 5. Fantastic energy from the hundreds upon hundreds of ‘fact-finding’ & ‘procurement’ conversations taking place on stands, in breakout meeting zones, and topped up with five enthusiastically attended conference stages running continuously, and many with standing room only!”

The 2025 CHEMUK event embraced some ‘five’ focused show zones reflecting the different sub-sectors of industry: The Chemicals Supply Show, The Formulated Product Manufacturer Show, The Chemicals Management Show, The Chemical Laboratory Show, and The Process & Chemical Engineering Show.

With some 200+ brand-new exhibitors joining the 2025 show this year, attendees throughout the multi-layered chemicals, downstream chemical consumer and industrial products, and chemical-dependent industries were able to network and see & meet with suppliers, technology & solutions providers, and an entire ecosystem supporting ‘breakthrough’ Innovation, R&D programmes & Scale-Up, Raw Materials Sourcing, Chemicals Procurement, Formulation & Reaction Processing, Plant & Production operations, Quality management, Distribution & Supply Chain, Sustainability, HSE & Regulatory management and more... meeting the sector’s critical current and future challenges.

Ian Stone observes, “Whatever a visitor is sourcing – from chemical intermediates to chemical process pumps, from flow reactor technologies to regulatory services, from specialised logistics partners to spill containment systems, and so much more, CHEMUK is the ‘total’ destination for all chemistry and chemical process-dependent industries.”

A crucial component of the CHEMUK 25 experience was again the vast ‘free to attend’ open conference programme. Spanning ‘five’ purpose-built integrated stages and providing some 50+ hours of topical keynotes and expert presentations, plus CHEMUK’s biggest ever programme of feature and panel sessions, the CHEMUK 2025 conference was again a massive draw for attendees.

Headlined by curated multi-session programmes from Professional Bodies - Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) , Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE), plus IMechE Process Industries Division, 2025 saw a ‘record’ cross-section of feature panels and sessions - including UK Government, Innovate UK Business Connect, Henry Royce Institute, Aston University, British Plastics Federation (BPF), NEPIC, UK-ASCM, Centre for Process Innovation (CPI) , Chemical Business Association (CBA) , Cosmetics Cluster UK, British Adhesives & Sealants Assoc (BASA), British Chemicals Association (BCA), UK Lubricants Assoc (UKLA), BASF, IBioIC – The Industrial Biotechnology Innovation Centre, Solvents Industry Assoc (SIA), Alliance of Chemical Associations (ACA), BCMPA, Process Industries Net Zero CDT, UK & Ireland Spill Association, and more…

Ian Stone describes CHEMUK’s annual conference programme as “a unique annual offering of knowledge sharing, addressing the biggest ‘challenges’ and ‘opportunities’ affecting and influencing the sector, providing vital intelligence on where the sector is heading plus empowering and informing crucial next steps... It’s where experts from all points step out of their ‘more specialised silos’ and share knowledge, ideas, foster collaboration, understanding, joined-up solutions and consensus on an ‘industry’ scale...”

With floor space reservations for CHEMUK 2026 already at its fastest-ever pace, Show Organisers are anticipating CHEMUK will again be the ‘biggest two days of the year’ for UK’s chemical, process engineering, and formulated product sectors.

CHEMUK dates for diary 2026: 20 & 21 May, 2026 (Hall 5, NEC Birmingham)

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