WEPACK 7-in-1 Packaging Extravaganza Back in Shanghai
After a successful 2024 show at Shenzhen, WEPACK moves back to Shanghai New International Expo Centre (SNIEC) for its 2025 edition scheduled from 8-10 April, 2025.
Organised by RX Global, the 7-in-1 concurrently-held packaging exhibition series including SinoCorrugated 2025, SinoFoldingCarton 2025, DPrint 2025, Label 2025, SinoPaper 2025, Plant Fiber & Food Pack Tech 2025, and PACKON 2025, spans the whole packaging industrial chain by integrating six major sectors. More than 1,500 exhibitors will display their latest, most advanced innovative solutions in an exhibition area spread over an impressive 14,000 sq m.
Crucial to the exhibition are the high-level forums held under the seven main themes, along with new product launches making their global debut and signing ceremonies hosted by the exhibitors.
SinoCorrugated 2025: The premier global gathering for corrugated manufacturing combines procurement, exhibition, and knowledge exchange for the corrugated packaging industry. Dedicated exhibits from over 500 top local and international brands will showcase flexible and efficient solutions for small-batch orders in corrugated packaging. SinoCorrugated will also feature on-site demonstrations of automated production in large-scale settings.
SinoFoldingCarton 2025: Since its initial edition, SinoFoldingCarton has not only gained widespread industry recognition and trust, but also emerged as a trendsetter leading industry development with its forward-looking vision and in-depth insights into global industry trends by consistently focussing on future industry development directions and committing to showcasing cutting-edge technologies, new business models, innovative concepts, and novel solutions. As an industry-leading showcase platform, it continues to drive industry progress, and provides trend guidance and inspiration for practitioners while bringing the industry to new peaks.
Notably, this year’s exhibition introduces three new themed zones: Automation and Digital Factory Zone, Environmental Protection and Carbon Neutrality Zone of Printing & Packaging, and High Value-Added Equipment Zone, honing in on the three major concerns currently facing packaging enterprises, viz. automation, environmental protection, and high value added, and providing the strongest engine for folding carton industry’s newer and better development.
DPrint 2025: Digital applications and equipment for all packaging and printing categories is the focus of DPrint, offering a comprehensive coverage of new technologies and applications in digital printing on corrugated boxes, folding cartons, labels, and flexible packaging materials.
The event is specifically curated to empower packaging innovation by integrating cutting-edge pre-press, processing, and post-press digital technologies to create new business opportunities beyond traditional orders. Another highlight is the Digital Carnival Zone, a dedicated area combining the latest trends and digital packaging processes and featuring live demonstrations of digital processing centre workflows.
Label 2025: A comprehensive showcase of the latest label technologies with live demonstrations of label processing equipment and discovery of innovative labelling materials, Label 2025 focusses on presenting innovative digital label solutions that cater to the small-batch and personalised order needs of end-user brands.
The Anti-Counterfeiting and Traceability Zone is another niche area featuring the latest anti-counterfeiting materials, equipment, technologies, and solutions for product traceability.
SinoPaper 2025: For paper mills and downstream customers from varied categories, SinoPaper 2025 provides a professional and comprehensive communication platform to facilitate rapid connections between the participating stakeholders to enhance paper procurement channels and reducing production costs.
Plant Fiber & Food Pack Tech 2025: With plant fibre pulp molding, food packaging container processing equipment, and new materials as focus areas, this specialised platform is tailor-made for the Asia-Pacific region, presenting advanced production technologies, high-tech equipment, and food-safe contact materials for food paper containers.
The event will provide valuable insights into the latest trends in food-contact packaging and build business resources and partnerships in high-growth markets.
PACKON 2025: One-on-one meetings with major end-user packaging brands to secure more direct orders makes this a premier event for those looking out for emerging trends, market hotspots, and top brand connections.
The dedicated exhibition zones for food and beverages, catering, chemicals for daily use, and industrial packaging help brands streamline their procurement process.
China’s Booming Packaging Industry
With the rapid rise of China’s manufacturing industry, the packaging sector in China has been developing at an increasingly swift pace. Many companies have stood out with advanced equipment, high production efficiency, and competitive pricing, earning recognition from global peers. Currently, China holds a 23% share of the global packaging market, with a sales revenue of $266.1 billion.
As a premier global packaging event, WEPACK showcases leading enterprises across the entire packaging value chain, from raw materials and processing equipment to production processes and finished products. Each edition attracts nearly 10,000 overseas packaging companies, agents, and associations from over 110 countries, covering sectors such as corrugated boxes, folding carton boxes, printing, and food packaging. The participants not only seek trade partnerships but also aim to learn advanced technologies and innovative concepts from Chinese enterprises.
China Study Tour for Overseas Enterprises
To strengthen the communication bridge between overseas attendees and Chinese enterprises, WEPACK 2025 will launch the ‘Overseas Packaging Enterprises’ Business Study Tour to China’. RX Global will collaborate with top-notch exhibitors from East China, North China, and South China, to design 6 customised routes based on market segmentation, including intelligent factory visit study tour, lean management, food container processing and pulp molding visit study tour, digital packaging study tour, lean production study tour, and large-format carton forming packaging study tour.
The research tours, taking place from 6-13 April, 2025, will provide a variety of engaging activities, including factory tours, hands-on demonstrations, closed-door forums, and business cocktail receptions.
The tours not only provide overseas packaging enterprises with a platform to deeply understand the Chinese market but also offers packaging enterprises in China an opportunity to showcase their superior products and broaden their international horizon, injecting new vitality into the global packaging industry’s development.
World Corrugated Awards 2025 to See Fierce Competition
With rapid developments in the global packaging industry come ever-evolving designs, materials, and production technologies, as well as certain social value and responsibility of corrugated boxes, driving a wave of innovative solutions in the industry. To explore contemporary trends in the corrugated packaging industry and provide a broader platform for exchange, RX Global has partnered with corrugated box associations worldwide to launch the World Corrugated Awards – dubbed as the biennial “Academy Awards” of the corrugated industry – in a bid to select the most pioneering design, marketing, management, and social responsibility cases of the year, and honour carton enterprises, teams, and individuals who contribute significantly to the global corrugated industry’s progress.
Since its inception in 2019, the competition has attracted active participation from global carton enterprises, with each edition welcoming over 200 carton enterprises presenting more than 300 cases to vie for the awards. World Corrugated Awards 2025 will feature 3 lightweight awards, 3 corporate management awards, and 2 social value awards, covering 8 distinct dimensions to select the most pioneering industry cases.
Golden Purchasing Season
By strategically avoiding significant festivals such as the Spring Festival and Labour Day, as well as e-commerce events like the 18 June and 11 November shopping festivals, WEPACK offers purchase leaders from the packaging industry more time to conduct field visits and make forecasts and plans for the purchase of raw materials and equipment, preparing for production in the second half of the year and even the following year.
Based on over 20 years of industry accumulation, WEPACK has become an international window for cutting-edge information exchange in the global packaging industry and has provided the Chinese packaging industry with a platform to link with the global market and showcase its growing strength.
