From 27 to 29 September 2022, it will once again be time for Fachpack to open its doors at Exhibition Centre Nuremberg.

This year again there will be exciting topics and speakers in the forums at Fachpack.

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Verpackungsmittel aus Kunststoffen

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Verpackungsmaterial

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Verbände, Institutionen, Messen

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New Inspiration for the Packaging Sector

Fachpack makes an impressive return in 2022: Around 32,000 trade visitors from 89 countries came to find out about the latest trends in the packaging industry in September.

Melting Pot for New Ideas

Companies from the plastic packaging and film industry can apply until the end of February.

Sustainable Plastic Packaging Award 2023 Starts

Picture gallery, main themes, and industry statistics: What will be important for the industry.

The long wait is over: After six years, Interpack is once again taking place in person.

Schröder, Susanne

Messe Interpack

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Looking forward to Interpack 2023

Packaging solutions focused on sustainability and innovation will take center stage on the Berry Global stand (Hall 10, stand D18) at this year’s Interpack.

Berry will display an extensive range of packs for many different end markets, including food.

Berry Global to Showcase Its Circular Packaging on a European Scale

 Brenda Chamulak will become company president and CEO effective June 30 as part of a planned leadership transition.

Brenda Chamulak will become Tekni-Plex‘spresident and CEO effective June 30 as part of a planned leadership transition

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Tekni-Plex Names New President and CEO

Pregis, a global manufacturer of protective and flexible packaging solutions, has joined the Flexible Packaging Association.

Pregis, a new member of the Flexible Packaging Association (FPA), is a global manufacturer of protective and flexible packaging solutions

Extrusion

Pregis Joins the Flexible Packaging Association

A few months after Interpack, the beverage specialists among the packaging experts will be meeting again in fall from September 11 to 15, 2017, at Drinktec in Munich, Germany. Trade show innovations are not to be expected everywhere here, but are definitely to be found where plastics processing and use are concerned. 

Innovations at the World’s Leading Trade Fair for the Beverage and Liquid Food Industry 

Labeling

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Polyethylenterephthalat

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Refining the Details 

For almost two decades, an expert committee, meeting once a year, has supported Kunststoffe magazine in determining the state of play in the plastics industry and identifying current technical developments. This time, the traditional spring meeting gave it an opportunity to debate the consequences of the Corona virus.

Taking new paths: during the Corona crisis, certain technical obstacles were also overcome by the Kunststoffe publisher advisory committee, who held a round table discussion by video conference for the first time. Present by video link were, among others, (top, from left) Dr. Guiscard Glück, Prof. Christian Hopmann (bottom, from left) Martin Würtele and Dr. Achim Eggert

Current Challenges and Options for Action in the Plastics Industry

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Klotz, Karlhorst, Dr.

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There is little doubt where we are heading: multilayer packaging will have to become easier to recycle – but what does that mean for the technology? And what solutions will the market need and accept? Manufacturers of branded goods are not the only ones who will have to rethink their specifications.

How Film Packaging Will Have to Develop

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Europe Needs to Catch up

Even more than with foodstuffs, what matters in most cases with drug packaging is the contents protected by the wrapping. These are not good conditions to pursue a cycle concept for packaging. But times are changing – perhaps.

Steps to More Sustainable Packaging in the Medical and Cosmetics Industries

No Chance for the Cycle Concept?

The challenges associated with recycling food packaging are particularly great in the flexible-packaging sector. Multilayer composites are often a hindrance to mechanical recycling, yet are irreplaceable in many applications. Replacements will not be found until recyclable and ecologically sustainable packaging solutions are devised.

Approaches and Unresolved Problems in the Mechanical Recycling  of Flexible Multilayer Packaging

Blasfolienextrusion

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Multilayer

Plastic packaging has a very bad reputation. Despite this, they are almost without alternative in food production

Crisp and clear: QR code applied by laser to a compostable film.

kunststoffe.de

Packaging against Waste

Ultrasonic sealing is a reliable and economical alternative to typical contact heat sealing. Narrow seams, tight seals in spite of product contamination and high efficiency in terms of energy usage characterize the latest technology that provides optimal protection for the fill goods. 

Verbindungstechnik

Sealing: Packaging with Ultrasonics 

Now in their third generation, the latest automated thermoformers are superior to their predecessors in many ways. Despite lower production costs, they can now achieve better product quality with higher output. 

Warmformen / Thermoformen

Stanzmaschinen, Kunststoff

Productivity Increase: Successful New Generation 

Around 2700 key players and newcomers from all over the world will be exhibiting at Interpack in Düsseldorf. Positive sign: The VDMA forecasts increased demand for packaged food and pharmaceutical packaging by 2026. The challenges facing the industry are reflected in the trade fair’s main themes. The solutions being developed to meet these challenges will be on display at the fair.

2700 key players and newcomers will be exhibiting in Düsseldorf, Germany. What challenges the industry has to face despite increasing demand.

We have been away for six years,” said Thomas Dohse, Director of Interpack, welcoming the trade journalists during the pre-show press conference at the end of February. The memory of having to cancel the 2020 trade fair shortly before the starting gun is still painful. The trade fair team has designed the welcome posters for the event with “Welcome home” in large letters – and is delighted with the fully booked exhibition center in Düsseldorf, Germany. The company relies on the proven hall concept, focusing on confectionery and bakery products, food, non-food and industrial goods, pharmaceuticals and cosmetics, as well as packaging and packaging materials.

The international trade fair for the processing and packaging industry had its premiere in 1958. One of the first exhibitors was Uhlmann Pac-Systeme GmbH & Co. KG from Laupheim, Germany. This is also where this year’s pre-show press conference took place, looking forward to the fair. Matthias Niemeyer, CEO at Uhlmann, reported on trends and general conditions in the industry in his keynote speech. These include encouraging growth rates of 6 to 12 % in the pharmaceutical packaging market, especially in the areas of prefilled syringes, injectable drugs and the personalized medicine market. However, the regulations on data protection and the supply chain act as an obstacle to innovation and bureaucratic cost drivers, according to the company boss. Part of the tour of the plant was the live demonstration of the BEC 700 blister pack line, which combines feeder, blister pack machine, and cartoner over a length of over 10 m and produces up to 700 blisters packs or 500 folding cartons per minute.

Manufacturing quality products and increasing productivity, while at the same time reducing costs and producing sustainably – the challenges facing the packaging industry are complex. Answers to all these challenges are addressed in the four main themes of the fair.

<ul><li>The aim of the circular economy is to reuse packaging materials that have been recycled into high-quality materials at the end of their useful life. At the same time, attempts are being made to use less material through film thickness reduction and optimized shaping. Design for recycling is an important factor in increasing the recycling rate of plastics packaging.</li><li>Resource management: Machinery manufacturers are being asked to provide intelligent control and automation technology in order to use energy and raw materials more efficiently – for sustainable production and packaging.</li><li>Digital technologies offer opportunities to track business performance in real time and optimize existing processes. They also help reduce production, maintenance, and repair costs.</li><li>Product safety: Safe and hygienic production takes the highest priority in the food and pharmaceutical industries. Stringent international standards and guidelines must be met.</li></ul>

High Demand for Machines – Germany Leads the Way

Richard Clemens, Managing Director of VDMA Food Processing and Packaging Machinery, presented the industry statistics at the event. Global demand for machinery and equipment for the production, processing, and packaging of food, beverages, pharmaceuticals, and cosmetic products is on course for growth despite difficult conditions. After international trade in food processing and packaging machinery fell by 7 % to a value of EUR 41 billion in 2020, due to the Covid pandemic, it increased significantly again in 2021. According to preliminary data, world trade reached a value of EUR 44 billion in 2021, an increase of 6 % over the previous year, and was thus back to pre-crisis levels.

With an average export ratio of 84 % and a 21 % share of world trade volume in 2021, German manufacturers of food processing and packaging machinery are world leaders. German exports increased by almost 5 % to a value of EUR 9 billion in 2021. Italy comes next with exports worth EUR 8.9 billion, an increase of 8 % over the previous year.

Continued growth in the world’s population, increasing urbanization, higher employment rates, and rising incomes are driving global demand for packaged foods. According to the VDMA, the British market research company Euromonitor International forecasts that global sales of packaged foods will increase by a total of 14 % to 932 million t between 2021 and 2026. However, demand is developing differently from region to region. In developing regions and countries with lower per capita consumption, demand will increase at an above-average rate.

As far as the packaging material used is concerned, flexible and rigid plastics have grown significantly in recent years – and account for the largest share of the “packaging material cake” at 64 % (Fig. 1). By 2026, the consumer goods packaging sector is expected to grow by a further 15 %.

From Packaging Bashing to a  Tsunami of Regulations

Despite these growth forecasts, the VDMA Managing Director sees the industry facing major challenges. “The packaging bashing that affected us in 2020 went away with Covid. Then followed price increases for materials and energy as well as supply bottlenecks. We are currently in a phase of reorientation and are looking for new markets,” said Clemens. For example, an Africa strategy was launched by the VDMA for this purpose.

The tsunami of regulations from Brussels, Belgium, makes the starting points difficult for a German manufacturer of packaging machines. The European Packaging Directive is the focus of criticism here. “We need clarity on many issues – in all European countries,” said Clemens. “These include, for example, specifications for recyclates. As long as there are no markets for recycled materials, we do not think it makes sense to set quotas.”

Messe Düsseldorf GmbH  

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The chart breaks down the market share of consumer goods packaging in the global retail trade in 2021 by material and growth. Overall, consumer goods packaging is expected to grow by 15 % by 2026.

Source: Euromonitor International 06/22, VDMA; graphic: © Hanser

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