FACHPACK, Europe’s leading trade fair for packaging, technology, and processes is to be held at the Exhibition Centre Nuremberg from 24-26 September, 2024. The long-standing trade fair will once again highlight the important trends for the packaging industry and its customers.
In keeping with its theme ‘Transition in Packaging’, FACHPACK welcomes innovative, forward-thinking businesses that are eager to showcase their clever packaging solutions. Sprawling across 11 exhibition halls, around 1,400 exhibitors will display innovative packaging solutions for industrial and consumer goods from a wide range of segments.
The most pressing and simultaneously most interesting topic for the industry is the EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR) that was adopted on 24 April, 2024. Here too, FACHPACK will provide answers to questions about issues like recyclability, reusability, and the use of recycled materials.
Heike Slotta, Executive Director Exhibitions at NürnbergMesse GmbH, explains, “In the packaging industry, there’s simply no getting around FACHPACK. It’s simply the must-do event! As the most important European trade fair of its kind, it brings together German and international packaging professionals and seekers of ideas with renowned market leaders, established SMEs, and recent start-ups in no less than 11 exhibition halls. But it’s not just packaging, packaging materials, accessories, packaging machines, and packaging technology that are on display. The key processes associated with automation, marking and labelling, packaging printing and finishing, and intra-logistics can also be seen in action at the venue in Nuremberg.”
Exhibitors will be presenting the latest technologies and packaging solutions of day-to-day relevance for numerous sectors like food, luxury foods and beverages, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, chemicals, healthcare, non-food, pet food, and other consumer goods. Visitors from segments like automotive, technical articles, medical technology, and other industrial goods will also flock to Nuremberg in September.
A special feature of FACHPACK is that it is a “working” trade fair with a hands-on mindset. The aim is for the community to tackle the issues together. In Nuremberg, ideas for innovative and sustainable packaging solutions and concrete approaches are developed when people listen to forum presentations, discuss things with their peers, network with one another, and think outside the box. This is the very essence of FACHPACK and in keeping with its motto “We create the future”.
Sustainability and PPWR define the discourse
To provide orientation and new impetus for the key issues and changes in the packaging industry, FACHPACK 2024 will focus on the powerful trends that are currently affecting the sector and reflect the event’s lead theme ‘Transition in Packaging’. Sustainability is at the forefront, and in this context, of course, the recently adopted PPWR.
This regulation’s ambitious goal is to reduce waste and lower environmental pollution and companies are being urged to invest in new and more environmentally compatible solutions. Greater transparency for consumers through improved labelling requirements is now also mandatory. The PPWR is a balancing act between ecological responsibility and economic viability that will largely set the course for future European environmental and economic policy. At FACHPACK 2024, this topic will be much discussed and hotly debated.
Guaranteed orientation and new inspiration
With a clear focus on sustainability and the future viability of the sector, FACHPACK 2024 will feature interesting presentations and discussions in the PACKBOX, INNOVATIONBOX, and SOLPACK forums. The topics covered include the circular economy, managing the PPWR requirements, brands and consumer behaviours, automation and AI, man and machine, alternative packaging solutions, new fibre raw materials, and innovations and technological developments. Scientific projects and potential solutions for various industry issues will also be explored. The programme offers a wealth of topics that no packaging professional can afford to miss out on.
On the first day of FACHPACK 2024, another new addition puts the spotlight on women in the packaging industry. Women4Packaging offers a unique opportunity for female exhibitors and trade visitors to network on site, inspire each other, and exchange views on current topics in the packaging industry in a relaxed ambience. “Through this format, we aim to give women in the packaging industry – and there are a lot of them – a platform for dialogue at the venue. In the run-up to the trade fair, we are already addressing this topic online in our news portal FACHPACK360°. The face-to-face get-together is the logical extension of this, and I am very much looking forward to it,” says Slotta.
For registration and latest updates, log on to www.fachpack.de
Opening timings: (24-25 September, 2024): 9 am to 6 pm, (26 September, 2024): 9 am to 5 pm.
