Exhibitor registrations at a record level

At interpack, more than 2,800 exhibitors can be expected – about 1,500 of which from the confectionery sector. Highlights of the event will be the support programme with Save Food Innovationparc plus conference as well as the VDMA special topic Industry 4.0.

This year, the trade fair interpack from 4 to 10 May 2017 is recording the highest demand among exhibitors in its history of over 55 years. By the official closing date of this outstanding international event for the packaging industry and related processing industries, exhibitors had booked about 20 percent more space than was available at the exhibition centre with its 262,400 sqm in 19 halls. Where size and internationalism are concerned, inter­pack is a unique platform for businesses offering products and solutions in packaging technology and related processes as well as packaging media and materials for the various segments of this industry: food, beverages, confectionery and baked goods, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, non-food consumer goods and industrial goods. The products and services presented here will be supplemented by several innovative specialist areas.
Working together with the ­German Engineering Federation ­(VDMA), interpack 2017 will put the focus on Industry 4.0, in particular. The special show will take the form of a Tech­nology Lounge at the VDMA booth, ­featuring examples of solutions in packaging machinery and process engineering and opening up new opportunities for applications in security, traceability, copying and counterfeit protection as well as in customised packaging.
As before, the issue “Save Food” will play a role at interpack 2017. A special show called Innovationparc will be held, with packaging ideas and solutions designed to reduce food losses and waste. They will include the winners of the international competitions for the Save Food Pack­aging Awards, held by the World Packaging Organisation (WPO). The winners are now set to compete with one another for the WorldStar Awards at the trade fair. As before, the special show will be held in a high-qual­ity marquee, situated between Halls 2 and 3.
As before, another show will be running in parallel, entitled “Components, special trade fair by interpack”. It will feature products from supplier industries of the packaging sector. Hundreds of companies will each have their own booths, offering products in drive, control and censor technology, industrial image processing, material handling technology and other (machine) components.
Following the premiere, the general idea of this show has been substantially revised for 2017. Visitors will now find it at a central location within the exhibition centre, in Hall 18, a temporary lightweight hall, approximately 5,000 sqm in size. This hall is situated between Halls 10 and 16. Further details are available at www.packaging-components.com.
For planning purposes, a visitors’ app is available for iPhone and Android users. Its functions include the exhibitors’ and event database, updated on a daily basis, graphically optimised hall plans and exhibitors’ details, including contact details and product information, an appointment form and the option of adding customised notes to exhibitors‘ entries.