Times are anything but rosy. War in Europe, exploding energy prices, shortage of raw materials and high inflation. Against this background, the packaging industry met at Fachpack in Nuremberg – and was surprisingly optimistic. At the end, six packaging experts shared their impressions of the trade fair and their personal assessments of where the packaging industry is heading in these times in our packaging journal Live Talk.
After a four-year break, All4Pack will be held again in Paris in November. The world has changed in the meantime and the trade fair concept has adapted to the new circumstances accordingly.
More than 1,150 exhibitors, around 32,000 visitors, three days of packaging in the spotlight – that’s a brief numerical summary of this year’s Fachpack. But that would hardly do justice to the full scope and significance of the packaging trade fair. After all, at the end of September in Nuremberg, not only were hands shaken, business cards exchanged and kilometres made, but ideas were compared, innovations presented and business relationships initiated. And packaging journal was right in the middle of it all.
A complex product range requires a complex packaging process? You might think so. But the automation of the packaging process of Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics Products GmbH shows: With a competent partner like R.WEISS Packaging GmbH & Co KG, flexible solutions based on modular design can be realised. This is also the case here, for which an intelligent UNIROB turnkey system for packaging diagnostic products was developed.
Mespack offers a range of customised packaging lines. To keep up with requirements, the machine builder relies on linear systems from Franke.
Packaging is a haptic affair, but companies are looking at digital possibilities for sales. Elif is using interactive 3D communication for the B2B sector.
For the first time, thin-walled containers can be produced from PET directly in injection moulding in one process step. Engel shows how at K 2022.
Companies need flexibility in their choice of packaging materials. The Uhlmann Group presented the PTC 200 for the growing field of parenterals.
In the Netherlands, the paper manufacturer, Crown Van Gelder, offers paper made from sugar beet pulp, using a material that already accumulates.
Proof of authenticity and product traceability may lead to misguided developments. Dr Marietta Ulrich-Horn from Securikett explains.
The European Tube Manufacturers Association (etma) awarded the Tube of the Year prize and the jury paid special attention to sustainability.
Three young designers from the Stuttgart Media University have taken the opening mechanism of the snapdragon as a model for a packaging.
PepsiCo, Pepsi Max and the WWF held a poster competition is now to further promote the sustainability debate in society and around packaging.
The trade fair event of the year for the packaging industry is upon us – Fachpack. We asked the director Philip Blass how the preparations are going.
At Vienna’s „Graphische“, two graduates in the field of printing and media technology developed packaging for cut flowers as their final project.
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