中国是德国塑料加工机械行业最大的出口市场之一。因此，VDMA塑料和橡胶机械协会一直密切关注与冠状病毒爆发有关的最新发展。

According to the German industry association, no member company maintains production facilities in the particularly affected Hubei region, and also no member has yet reported a coronavirus inflected case.

VDMA塑料和橡胶机械协会的董事总经理ThorstenKühmann与Theaplas的官方媒体CPRJ分享了他对市场情况和Chinaplas 2020的看法：

The importance of the Chinese market not changed

Regarding when the market will return to normal, Thorsten Kühmann, Managing Director, commented that many member companies expect the situation to slowly level off again in March, and the outbreak “does not change the fundamental importance of the Chinese market for our industry in the future”.

The industry trade fair CHINAPLAS 2020 is rescheduled to take place on August 3-6, 2020 at the National Exhibition and Convention Center (NECC), in Hongqiao, Shanghai.

VDMA Plastics and Rubber Machinery Association is one of the co-organizers of the CHINAPLAS 2020 concurrent event “Industry 4.0 Factory of the Future”.

Thorsten Kühmann believes the iconic industry trade fair “can certainly provide a positive impulse” especially when the Chinese economy is weakening as a result of the coronavirus outbreak.

德国塑料机械行业的销量下降了约6％。索斯滕·库曼（ThorstenKühmann）预计，由于对汽车行业的投资不断增加，到2020年底会下降到2020年底，但贸易壁垒仍然是一个问题。

“Sales increases as a result of the investments will not occur before beginning of 2021. We therefore also expect a decline in sales in 2020 in the range of 2019,” he said.

No significant delivery problems so far due to coronavirus

VDMA塑料和橡胶机械协会表示，冠状病毒疫情尚未导致德国机械工程行业的重大交付问题。

However, due to the long throughput times in mechanical engineering, it is possible that “these difficulties will only really become apparent in the coming weeks”.

The coronavirus outbreak has not yet led to significant delivery problems in the German mechanical engineering industry.

除了其他行业的许多供应商的生产较慢外，机械工程公司还面临物流限制的挑战。

目前,公司s in Germany can still compensate for these difficulties by switching to other production locations or suppliers, but Thorsten Kühmann remarked that “the situation must be reassessed from week to week”.