{"id":69779,"date":"2022-10-28T14:18:17","date_gmt":"2022-10-28T12:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/?p=69779"},"modified":"2022-10-28T14:18:17","modified_gmt":"2022-10-28T12:18:17","slug":"english-2022-08-specialised-pack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/english-2022-08-fachpack\/","title":{"rendered":"That was Fachpack 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"
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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.<\/strong><\/p>

One thing is already certain after Fachpack 2022: even after two years of pandemic, the concept of the \u201epresence trade fair\u201c is far from obsolete, quite the opposite. From 27 to 29 September at the Nuremberg Exhibition Centre, you could almost forget that last year's meeting place for the German packaging industry had only taken place in a slimmed-down, but hybrid form.<\/strong> Especially on Wednesday, the second day of the fair, visitors crowded through the aisles of the exhibition halls and gathered at the various stands. It was human, you could say.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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The trade fair motto \u201eTransition in Packaging\u201c was found everywhere in one form or another. Like many other branches of industry, the packaging sector is facing an unprecedented upheaval: the adaptation of the entire industry to the climatic and thus also economic challenges of our time.<\/strong> At the fair, this upheaval was expressed, for example, in the presentation of packaging materials that save raw materials or are made from renewable raw materials; in the form of packaging processes that achieve the same or even better results with far fewer materials than was previously the case; in the form of intelligent machines that, thanks to state-of-the-art software, have fewer runtime failures to report and can thus convert energy more efficiently. In short: the industry is already in the middle of the motto-giving transition. In the midst of change. This was also evident in the panel discussion at the end of the fair, which was moderated by packaging-journal editor-in-chief Jan Malte Andresen<\/strong>.<\/p>

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Organiser fully satisfied<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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The organisers are also fully satisfied with the exhibition. \u201eEven though the overall situation is not easy for many companies at the moment, the European packaging industry showed itself to be extremely innovative and solution-oriented at Fachpack<\/strong>,\u201c said Heike Slotta, Executive Director Exhibition, N\u00fcrnbergMesse. \u201eTrade fairs are melting points for new ideas, this is where the future becomes tangible. Of course, as a result of the pandemic, the Ukraine war, rising energy costs and inflation, our immediate future seems anything but rosy. But that is precisely why we need to talk about how we shape change. And here let's use the jargon of the consumer goods industry: Change has become a \u201afast mover\u2018 since sustainability, digitalisation have accelerated, consumer expectations and framework conditions are constantly changing<\/strong>.\"<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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According to a survey at the fair, the visitors were also convinced. According to the organiser, more than 90 percent were satisfied with the trade fair offerings.<\/strong> In turn, 85 per cent of the trade visitors said they were involved in purchasing and procurement decisions at their company, and more than half held executive positions. So Fachpack was a thoroughly top-class event, and not only in terms of the machines and materials on show.<\/p>