Exciting New Features
As well as a comprehensive product display, FACHPACK participants can look forward to a diverse supporting program relating to the main theme of FACHPACK 2024: “Transition in packaging”. The program for the FACHPACK forums will explore specific strategies and approaches by brands, manufacturers, and users to deal with the issues currently impacting the sector. The circular economy, brands and consumerism, automation and AI, innovations and technological developments are among the range of major topics of the PACKBOX and INNOVATIONBOX forums.
Inspiration is also provided by a new themed pavilion in Hall 3 that showcases innovative packaging made from sustainable raw materials or new alternative developments for established packaging materials. Heike Slotta explains: “For this pavilion, we are partnering with BIOFACH, the world’s leading fair for organic food which takes place annually in Nuremberg.” What’s so special about it is that with just one registration, interested companies can simply and easily participate and present their products at both trade fairs using the same concept.” “Moreover,” Heike Slotta continues, “at FACHPACK 2024 we are also cooperating with SOLPACK by PACOON, which will host a moderated forum to present key topics relating to alternative and sustainable packaging solutions.
New: “Women4Packaging”
On the first day of FACHPACK 2024, another new addition puts the spotlight on women in the packaging industry. At the “Women4Packaging” get-together, the focus is on networking with packaging experts in a relaxed atmosphere. This event is geared towards female exhibitors and trade visitors. “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 Heike Slotta. Interested participants can register for this event via the FACHPACK website.
Start-ups – Register Now
Listen up, innovative young companies from Germany! The “Young Innovators” pavilion, subsidized by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (BMWK), enables German start-ups and new firms to present their companies and product innovations to a professional audience at FACHPACK 2024. International start-ups with a registered office outside Germany can showcase their pioneering products and processes to interested packaging specialists at the Newcomer Pavilion.
