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45 thousand visitors for five days (11 - 15 September) visited the block of six fair events: PAKFOOD, Polagra – Tech, Polagra – Food, Gastro Trendy and Tastes of Regions and National Animal Breeding Exhibition.

This year's PAKFOOD Food Industry Packaging Fair, the most important food packaging event in this part of Europe, brought together 140 companies from 18 countries (including the Czech Republic, France, Spain, Ireland, Germany, Portugal, Switzerland, Sweden, the USA, Italy and Great Britain) presenting raw materials and semiproducts for packaging production, packaging materials, finished food packaging and packing aids and equipment for their production and packaging, marking and labeling machinery. There were companies offering printing services as well as technical advice. The most represented segment at the fair was packaging machines and food packaging. Over 1 / 3 exhibitors were foreign companies.

An impressive number of visitors is the evidence of market prosperity and the dynamic development of the industry. The exhibitions of PAKFOOD and Polagra – Tech, Polagra – Food, Gastro Trendy and Tastes of Regions and National Animal Breeding Exhibition held at the same time were visited by nearly 45 thousand visitors from around the world, and among them: the representatives of enterprises, manufacturing plants and trading companies of the food industry i.e. manufacturers of food products and beverages, wholesalers of the food and packaging industry, representatives of meat, fish and fruit and vegetable processing plants and of retail chains.

PAKFOOD is an appreciated forum for presenting the latest solutions and technologies that premiered at the fair in Poznan. During the fair among the products marked as novelties you could see the latest technological solutions in the field of packaging, packaging machines, balers, printers, labellers, stamping machines, barcode verifiers, vacuum pumps and many others. Presentation of the novelties has brought a lot of interesting information on the latest technologies and trends in the industry.

Seminars, conferences and presentations accompanying the exhibition allowed to familiarise with the current situation in the packaging industry, exchange experiences relating to innovation, technology and security of packaging, while creating a favourable atmosphere for establishing business contacts in an international circle.

To emphasise the importance of packaging, during the fair there was held already for the second time the Packaging Day and seminars on current issues concerning the packaging industry in Poland organised by the Polish Chamber of Packaging, Packaging Research and Development Centre and the Institute of Logistics and Warehousing in cooperation with Miedzynarodowe Targi Poznanskie. Lectures gave a closer look at innovations in packaging. The programme was also enriched by presentations of companies concerning, among others, logistics in the packaging industry.

Issue of innovation in the industry was also raised by the Conference "Innovative Packaging" constituting a valuable forum for exchanging experiences on modern trends and opportunities in packaging among suppliers of technology, machinery, equipment and materials for packaging and representatives of packaging printing offices and graphic studios designing packaging and their clients. The meeting of professionals from the packaging industry was organised by Polski Drukarz Publishing House in cooperation with Miedzynarodowe Targi Poznanskie.

Requirements for packaging production, expectations of ordering parties and discussion on the implementation of needed technologies were the main theme of the conference "Safe Packaging" organised by Alfa-Print Publishing House. Meeting with the market leaders under the auspices of Miedzynarodowe Targi Poznanskie enabled the exchange of experiences concerning, among others, migration of paints and varnishes.

You could familiarise with the flexographic printing technology during the lecture "Flexo can wrap almost everything" organised by the Polish Flexographic Association.

Prestigious awards - MTP Gold Medal and Acanthus Aureus were solemnly granted during the Awards Gala on the first day of the fair. In total at this year's PAKFOOD, Polagra – Tech and Polagra – Food the jury awarded 27 products and 11 stands.

MTP Gold Medal has been awarded since 1979 and is highly regarded by domestic and foreign exhibitors. It also constitutes a valued form of product promotion and an excellent marketing instrument eagerly used by companies as the graphic image of the Medal placed on their products and promoting materials.

Food Industry Packaging Fair MTP Gold Medal Winner

Hot air blower: Leister HOTWIND SYSTEM
Leister Process Technologies, Switzerland
Submitted by: HEISSLUFTTECHNIK FLOCKE Sp. z o.o., Katowice
Hall 5, stand 68

Success at the fair is not only excellent products, but equally the way of presenting them. Therefore, at Poznan fairs we also reward stands that are most favourable for the marketing strategy of companies.

Acanthus Aureus Winners at PAKFOOD fair:
MULTI Sp. z o.o., Opole
Hall 5, stand 60

RADPAK Sp. z o.o. Fabryka Maszyn Pakujących Sp. z o.o., Włocławek
Hall 5, stand 22

Polish Chamber of Packaging distinguished individuals and companies that by their activities in a particular way have contributed to the development of the packaging industry in Poland and gave them the title of "Meritorious for the Packaging Industry".

This honorable title was given to Mr Wojciech Pawłowski, the founder of the Polish capital group Warta Glass Group - manufacturer of glass packaging and the founder of the Polish Chamber of Packaging. While the award - "Company Meritorious for the Packaging Industry" was received by Opakofarb.

We encourage professionals from the packaging and logistics industry to include in their calendars the next edition of the International Packaging Technology and Logistics Exhibition TAROPAK that will be held on 8-11 October 2012 in Poznan. TAROPAK Fair exhibitors' offer meets the expectations of packaging customers of all industries and modern solutions in the field of logistics, giving them the opportunity to get familiar with market trends, assess its condition, learn about technology novelties and compare the offers of Polish and international industry leaders.

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