The PIAE Plastics in Automotive Engineering 2018 took place on 14.03.18 and 15.03.18 at the Congress Center Rosengarten Mannheim. The ten participants from the Institute of Polymer Engineering Darmstadt ikd were able to experience an interesting conference program. The event was also an opportunity to cultivate the plastics engineering network. There were many interesting discussions with former plastics engineering students from Darmstadt and new contacts were made.