About the World Elastomer Technology and Engineering Forum 2025

The rapid development of China's rubber industry has achieved global attention. The experts and scholars represented by Professor Zhang Liqun, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and president of Xi 'an Jiaotong University, agreed that China should make more voice in the world and let more overseas enterprises and friends know China and get familiar with China.

To this end, after many consultations among experts and scholars, it was decided to hold the World Elastomer Technology and Engineering Forum (WETEF) once a year. In 2025, it will be held in Shanghai from September 15 to 18. The forum will invite many domestic and foreign enterprises, universities and institutions of engineering and technical personnel, experts and scholars, as well as representatives of relevant industry organizations to participate. It aims to be the highest level elastomer conference in the world, aiming to further promote the integration and cooperation of global industry, university and research in the field of elastomers, accelerate the development of new quality productivity, and provide a platform for global academic and technical research in elastomers and related fields.

The first WETEF (2024) was held in Shanghai and received wide attention from the whole industry around the world. In 2025, in order to allow more universities, experts and scholars to join, in order to allow the world to have a deeper understanding of China's elastomer industry,  the WETEF 2025 will be held during the 23rd International Exhibition on Rubber  Technology, from building a bridge of school-enterprise communication to gradually build a platform for school-enterprise communication in the global elastomer industry. Thus, it is more convenient and in-depth for not only China, but also the global industry players to carry out high-level research on a global scale, and exchange scientific research results and industrial technology.  

The theme of the forum is "Advancement·Collaboration·Innovation", which will follow the future evolution direction of the elastomer industry, seek technological revolutionary breakthroughs, and conduct high-level discussions on the innovative allocation of production factors, engineering applications, industrial deep transformation and upgrading, structural adjustment and optimization, energy saving and carbon reduction, and frontier exploration of the elastomer industry. At the same time, scientific research results and industrial technology exchanges. There are 7 special topics:

1.Elastomer genetic engineering and artificial intelligence

2. Design and synthesis of novel elastomer

3. Reinforcement, functionalization and intelligence of elastomer

4. Characterization & simulation of elastomer and their products

5. Green & low carbon development of elastomer and their products

6.Product digital design and advanced manufacturing

7. Industrial development and future

The Chairman of the Forum is Zhang Liqun. The organizing committee of WETEF 2025 sincerely invites domestic entrepreneurs to actively participate in and support the conference.

WETEF 2025 Organizing Committee

November 15, 2024