PARTEC – the trade fair for packaging, processing and technology

Where the packaging sector flourishes

With specific answers to the issues that will be affecting the industry in the future and practical solutions for the challenges of tomorrow, PARTEC showcases everything you’d expect from the packaging process chain – like ground-breaking innovations and pragmatic thinking, the strongest trends and surprisingly diverse perspectives. Because the European trade fair for packaging, processing and technology is primarily about the people, the movers and shakers, as well as opportunities. You’ll notice this right away from PARTEC's new look, and you’ll also sense it in every hall – in discussions with visitors and when initiating new business contacts.

The history of PARTEC and other facts about the exhibition

PARTEC can look back on a magnificent success story. It started in 1979 with 80 exhibitors at the Nuremberg exhibition venue; around 2,000 visitors came to the packaging exhibition at that time, which gained the name PARTEC from 1982. 1,644 exhibitors and 45,000 visitors were recorded in 2018, and thus PARTEC has long since become one of the leading trade fairs in Europe dealing with packaging. A look back at the year 2018 will whet the appetite for PARTEC 2019, when PARTEC celebrates its 40th anniversary:

• 1,644 exhibitors
• 45,000 trade visitors
• 92 % of the exhibitors established new business relations.
• 94 % of the exhibitors reached their most important target groups during PARTEC 2018.
• 98 % of the visitors were satisfied with the range of products and services presented at the exhibition.
• 98 % of the visitors were satisfied with the opportunities for obtaining information and establishing contacts at the exhibitors' stands.