Planning for The Recycler Live and Trade Days, powered by Remanexpo, is already underway, and your survey feedback is helping shape the next steps. Here’s what you told us, and how it’s influencing the future of the event.
Over the past few weeks, we invited the industry to help shape the future of The Recycler Live and Trade Days, powered by Remanexpo, and the response has been thoughtful, honest, and incredibly useful.
As planning begins for the 2026 edition and beyond, we’ve been listening carefully. Whether you attend as a visitor, exhibit as a supplier, or follow the market from afar, your feedback helps us understand what’s working, what’s missing, and where we need to go next.
What You Told Us
- Spring timing makes sense. The move away from January was one of the clearest messages. A window from late April to mid-June, avoiding Easter and public holidays, fits better with business cycles and supports more cost-effective participation.
- Accessibility and affordability matter more than ever. While major cities bring prestige and transport links, many of you pointed to rising hotel and flight costs as a barrier. One respondent shared that they used to send four team members — two new staff and two senior buyers — but with hotels at over €300 a night and flights around €400, they could now only justify sending two. Affordability is not just about cost — it affects who can come, and how many.
- You want meaningful encounters, not just floorplans. Traditional booth-and-aisle formats aren’t enough. The strongest feedback was around creating real connections through informal social spaces, structured one-to-ones, hosted buyer programmes and topic-led roundtables.
- Content should be relevant, actionable and future-facing. There’s strong demand for sessions that address today’s challenges — including firmware updates, regulation, sustainability and OEM positioning — and also spotlight innovation and growth strategies.
- The whole channel should be included. From collectors to chipmakers, distributors to dealers — and yes, even OEMs (as long as they play nicely) — the message was clear: the event should reflect the whole imaging and reuse ecosystem.
What Happens Next
This feedback is already shaping the direction of The Recycler Live and Trade Days. It’s influencing the format, programme structure, location discussions and commercial options we’re developing for 2026 and beyond.
Our goal is to build an event that reflects the energy, creativity and resilience of this sector — and with your help, we’re on the right path.
Thank you again for your time, insights, and trust.
