PLASTPOL is the plastics and rubber processing fair at Targi Kielce, and its logistics is above all about heavy machinery: injection moulding machines, extruders, lines and moulds. Transport is planned around the weight and size of each unit, unloading around the available equipment, and delivery around the venue slot. Our Kielce base with a ramp, a lorry-mounted crane and forklifts up to 5 tonnes works as a buffer right by the fairground.
Heavy machinery needs a plan, not improvisation
With plastics-processing machines, the choice of vehicle and equipment is driven by the weight, the packed dimensions, the support points and the way the unit is secured. We collect this data before quoting: it decides whether the machine travels on a standard trailer, a tail-lift vehicle or a low loader, and what will unload it on site. We also agree who is responsible for positioning the machine on the stand — carry-in and positioning is a separate stage coordinated with the organiser and the stand builder.
The Kielce base: ramp, crane, forklifts up to 5 tonnes
Our cross-dock base operates in Kielce, in the hinterland of Targi Kielce, and is equipped for loads heavier than typical groupage: an unloading ramp, a lorry-mounted crane and forklifts with a capacity of up to 5 tonnes. A machine can therefore arrive in Kielce well in advance — from a Polish manufacturer, from an exhibitor in the CZ/SK/AT/HU region or from the United Kingdom — be unloaded safely and wait under a roof for its slot.
A buffer before the unloading slot
Build-up slots at large events are rigid, and a late vehicle with a heavy machine is hard to recover on site. We therefore recommend a simple pattern: the long-haul leg to our base a few days before build-up, and a short final delivery from Kielce to the venue exactly in the assigned window. We always confirm build-up and breakdown dates with the fair organiser.
Exhibitors from the United Kingdom at PLASTPOL
A British machinery manufacturer exhibiting in Kielce crosses the EU customs border. Machines returning to the UK after the fair are best entered on an ATA carnet — temporary admission without duty and VAT, described in ATA carnet, what it is. The whole process from the perspective of a UK company, including consolidation at our Milton Keynes warehouse, is covered in UK exhibitor at Kielce fairs.
After the fair: dismantling and return
Once the event closes we collect the machine from the stand in the breakdown window, and if the return transport comes later, we store it at the Kielce base. We organise the return to any place in Poland, to the region or to the United Kingdom, with customs handled both ways.
See what else we do for exhibitors in the exhibition logistics hub and check our warehouses. Planning a machine for PLASTPOL? Write to us — send the weight, dimensions and date, and we will propose the vehicle, the unloading equipment and a delivery plan in the slot.
