Three days full of inspiration, innovation, and discussion at FACHPACK, the European trade fair for packaging, technology, and processes, and at POWTECH TECHNOHPARM, the international exhibition for process operations. The Nuremberg Exhibition Centre swelled to the size of a city, with 72,000 visitors united by one mission: to lead their companies and sectors into the future. At the FACHPACK exhibition stands and supporting programme, the members of this community discussed trends and innovations, as well as crucial questions about recycling, government regulations, automation, digitalization, and AI. “In the midst of transformation, the European packaging industry showed itself to be extremely innovative and solution-focused at FACHPACK”, said Phuong Anh Do, Director FACHPACK at NürnbergMesse, with obvious pride. The next FACHPACK will be held at the Nuremberg Exhibition Centre from 21 to 23 September 2027.
The atmosphere in the exhibition halls was electric. “The quality of professional visitors was excellent. The hands-on mentality that is characteristic of the packaging industry was on full display, embodying the spirit of the FACHPACK slogan: We make the future together”, Do said, by way of describing the mood at FACHPACK 2025.
Visitors from all over Europe rubbed shoulders in Nuremberg
Once again, FACHPACK 2025 presented a wide array of solutions and innovations in the areas of packaging, packaging technology, and packaging processes. The Nuremberg Exhibition Centre was the meeting place for professional visitors from all over Europe, with international visitors accounting for 37 percent of total visitors. They represented key sectors like food and feed, chemicals, pharmaceuticals and medicine, cosmetics, retail trade, automotive, electrical and electronics, non-food, logistics, and packaging.
FACHPACK 2025: Good home for start-ups and innovators
Innovation was in the air everywhere at FACHPACK 2025. On the day before the trade fair, about 100 leading start-ups in the European packaging industry came together at the FuturePack Summit organized by Futury GmbH in collaboration with FACHPACK and EIT Food. The young entrepreneurs presented their ideas for the packaging world of tomorrow, in a wide range of applications from sustainable materials to digital tools and even new business models.
Again this year, visitors encountered fresh, unconventional ideas and products to solve the packaging challenges of our time in Hall 3 at the Young Innovators Pavilion for innovative start-ups, which was sponsored by the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Climate Protection, and at the Newcomers Pavillon for first-time exhibitors and international newcomers.
The STUDENT DAY on the third day of the trade fair was the perfect place for representatives of packaging companies to meet the next generation of packaging professionals. At the invitation of FACHPACK and the German Packaging Institute (dvi), more than 60 college students from German-speaking countries interacted with representatives of packaging companies and producers of brand-name products in a series of workshops.
Strong attendance at the women’s networking event WOMEN4PACKAGING
Held on the second day of the trade fair, the second edition of the women’s networking event WOMEN4PACKAGING was a complete success, with 200 female packaging professionals in attendance. Seven impressive speakers, including representatives of Mosca, Tchibo, reo, Lavera, Werner & Mertz, and the Carton Group, shared their experiences in two rounds of speeches.
New highlight in 2026: Packaging Machinery Conference at the Nuremberg Exhibition Centre
Three major players in the packaging industry – FACHPACK, Packaging Valley e.V., and Hüthig Medien – jointly hosted the Packaging Machinery Conference at the Nuremberg Exhibition Centre on 16 and 17 June 2026. This exciting this new platform for packaging machinery companies and their customers was guided by the slogan “Innovation Meets Strategy”. This conference brings leading minds and major companies together to discuss the future of packaging technologies in a broad range of topics such as AI, government regulations, best practices, and new markets.
Presentation of German Packaging Awards and Gold Awards
As in earlier years, German Packaging Institute (dvi) announced the winners of the Gold Awards at this year’s German Packaging Awards on the first day of the FACHPACK. This year’s Gold Awards went to the companies AeroFlexx (in the category of Functionality & Convenience), DACHSER (in the category of Logistics & Material Flow), and Molkerei Gropper (in the category of Sustainability / Recyclability). In total, 37 innovative solutions from Germany, Iran, Austria, Switzerland, and the United States, which had already won German Packaging Awards in August, were celebrated at this year’s FACHPACK.
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