
Around 2,700 companies from all over the world will be showcasing their solutions and products at interpack 2023 in Düsseldorf. To ensure that visitors do not lose their bearings in the 18 halls of the trade fair, there is a clear hall concept that is orientated towards the trade fair's core target groups.
No other trade fair in the industry reflects the interpack reflects the global market in all its diversity. Next year, the trade fair will once again offer the packaging sector and the related process industry the largest international market overview and will more than live up to its motto „simply unique“. The customised hall concept is geared towards the Core target groups from the food, beverages, confectionery and baked goods, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, non-food and industrial goods sectors.
Around 2,700 companies from all over the world will be presenting in Düsseldorf from 4 to 10 May 2023 Cutting-edge technologies and packaging trends along the entire value chain, highlight growth opportunities and provide answers to the challenges facing the industry.
Sweets and baked goods
Processes and machines for packaging confectionery and baked goods Visitors will find a wide range of packaging solutions, particularly in Halls 1, 3 and 4, where Sollich, Aasted, Theegarten-Pactec, Chocotech, Bühler and Winkler und Dünnebier, among many others, will be on hand to offer advice to anyone interested in packaging confectionery. The bakery industry will be meeting up with exhibitors such as Hebenstreit, Rheon Automatic Machinery, Colussi Ermes, Tonelli, TT Italy and Reading Bakery System.
As in other areas, packaging for confectionery, baked goods, snacks and cereals has seen a lot of change in recent years. Sustainable solutions are a major topic. The Machine manufacturers are adapting their portfolio to mono-material packaging or new materials, for example. In addition, digital technologies - as in the entire industry - are in focus.
Big names are involved
The food industry is one of the top visitor target groups at interpack, and the range on offer is correspondingly large. The demand for packaged food is increasing worldwide. Moreover In saturated, high-income markets, consumer awareness and consumer behaviour are changing in the direction of sustainability, regionality, organic quality or Fairtrade, This also applies to packaging. This, along with the current challenges of energy management and resource conservation, is leading to transformation processes in the industry. The same applies to beverages and non-food products, which, like the food sector, are located in Halls 5 and 6 and Halls 11 to 14. Around 20 per cent of visitors at interpack are particularly interested in solutions for industrial goods. These can also be found in these halls.
Starting in Hall 5, there will be a focus on the food sector and big names such as Multivac Sepp Haggenmüller, Ulma Packaging, Weber Maschinenbau and Fuji Machinery. In Hall 6, for example, Fawema, Coesia, Syntegon Technology and Duravant will be showcasing their innovations in many application areas for processing and packaging.
Halls 11 to 14, which can be optimally accessed in a circular route, are home to exhibitors such as Omori Machinery, Mettler-Toledo (Hall 11), Extend Great International, Rovema and Haver & Boecker (Hall 12), KHS, Krones, Aetna Group, Sidel and ProMach (Hall 13) as well as Gerhard Schubert Verpackungsmaschinen, Ishida Europe Limited, Loesch-Hastamat and tna solutions (Hall 14). Hall 13 will focus in particular on filling and packaging solutions for the beverage industry.
Pharmaceuticals and cosmetics
In view of the global demographic changes, the development opportunities for the pharmaceutical industry are good. With growing demands on drug development are also increasing in parallel with those on plant and machine technology in the packaging and filling of pharmaceuticals. The pharmaceutical companies need holistic solutions and you will find them in Halls 15 to 17, which focusses on processes and machines for packaging pharmaceuticals and cosmetics. Visitors will be able to meet IMA Industria Macchine, the Marchesini Group, the Optima packaging group, Romaco Holding, Körber Medipak Systems and the companies of Excellence United. Machines and systems for the production of pharmaceuticals and cosmetics will rightly be the centre of attention. high requirements with regard to product safety, counterfeit protection and traceability. Cosmetic products are also at the centre of the sustainability movement.
Packaging materials and packaging
Halls 7 and 7a, 8a, 9 and 10 are of central importance for the industry, as this is where visitors can view a good third of all exhibitors, including all materials and end products for packaging. This Cross-user range of packaging materials, packaging materials and packaging aids is the world's largest packaging trade fair in its own right. All packaging materials are represented here and there are particularly many Innovations in sustainability and resource conservation, for example in the development of new materials, renewable raw materials or increasing the proportion of recycled materials in packaging.
The exhibitors in this area are particularly numerous and international - you can visit Sappi Europe, Sonoco, Mayr Melnhof Packaging, Berry Global, Schütz GmbH, the S.I.T. Group and Seda International Packaging, among others.
components takes place parallel to interpack
Inform, decorate, individualise - packaging is an information carrier. How to do this for different Realising products and requirements The exhibitors in Halls 8a and 8b will be showing what labelling and marking technology can do. Here you will find machines for labelling and marking technology, for example from Bluhm Systeme, Langguth, Domino Printing Sciences, Videojet Technologies, Herma and Possehl. The range is supplemented by solutions in the field of packaging production and integrated packaging printing. Here you can visit companies such as Starlinger, Totani, Fujifilm Europe, the Brückner Group and HP Germany.
“Every part counts” is the motto at the components, which will again take place as a separate trade fair parallel to interpack. Here you will find companies that Drive, control and sensor technology, products for industrial image processing, handling technology, industrial software and communication and complete automation systems for the packaging industry. There will also be machine parts, components, accessories and peripheral equipment as well as components and aids for packaging materials. Exhibitors include Pilz, Gimatic, Igus, Voestalpine Edelstahl and Mädler. With the temporary Hall 18, which is located between Halls 10 and 16, the trade fair is very centrally located and interpack visitors and exhibitors have direct access to the components and vice versa.
Source: interpack
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