
The trade fair season is underway, including Empack. The regional trade fair is aimed at interested parties from the fields of primary and secondary packaging for consumer goods and industrial products. The Dortmund edition will take place on 18 and 19 May. Many companies have confirmed their participation.
The regional trade fair Empack is aimed at all Experts and decision-makers who take responsibility for primary and secondary packaging of consumer goods and industrial products, and intralogistics experts in general - after all, packaging is a crucial step at the end of the production value chain.
What can visitors expect? Firstly, a wide range of products that will provide an overview of the „state of the art in (packaging) technology“. The spectrum ranges from primary and secondary packaging materials to packaging and filling systems and the identification and labelling of products and packaging. Service providers for both packaging and packaging design will also be exhibiting at the trade fair.

To the Machine manufacturers, The companies that have already booked include ATS-Tanner, Ergopack, G. Kraft and Mosca. For Labelling and marking technology companies such as AISCI Ident, Bandall, Bluhm, EBS Ink Jet and SRD Maschinenbau. Packaging materials and packaging aids are represented by companies such as Airworks, Bewi Cellpack, Cushion Pack, De-Pack, C.B. Hoffmann, Invema and Walther Faltsysteme.
Expert knowledge and networking
In addition to the exhibits and presentations at the exhibition stands, there is also further information availableOn two stages - the Solution and the Science Centre - experts will report on practical, new packaging solutions and research results from packaging technology. In addition to new products, the focus here is also on the changing requirements of legislation and consumers - keyword sustainability.
Exhibitors make contacts with decision-makers quickly and personally at the two-day trade fair, who have a need for packaging technology products and services. And visitors will get to know suppliers who enable or provide innovative, efficient and sustainable packaging solutions.
Dortmund is a suitable trade fair location for this task. A disproportionately high number of goods are packed and handled in the Rhine-Ruhr region, Numerous market leaders in logistics (including DB Schenker, Hafen Duisburg, Imperial Logistics, Rethmann) are based here, as are the logistics centres of large retail chains. The start-up scene is also strongly represented - not least due to the dense population of universities and institutes as „incubators“. For all of them, the Empack as a regional trade fair a forum for dialogue and „matchmaking“ between supply and demand in the packaging industry.
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