From January 2010 MTP provides wireless Internet service that enables access to Wi-Fi Internet.
The  Wi-Fi Internet access is offered to participants of the fairs and participants of other events organized by  Międzynarodowe Targi Poznańskie as well as to tenants of the fair premises who use the premises to organize their own events.
Wireless Internet access is a paid service and the access codes are sold at Biuro Organizacji Targów (Fair Organization Office i.e. BOT)  located in pavilion 3, 5 and 7 as well as at all ticket offices.
Wireless Internet service is available within the whole MTP area.

Retain the documents admitting you to MTP grounds!

Międzynarodowe Targi Poznańskie is implementing standards that are present in many trade fair centres by introducing changes to the visitor registration system and in the standards of services to trade fair visitors.

In September, you will experience new registration points in the Eastern Lobby (entrance from ul. Głogowska) and the WTC Lobby (entrance from ul. Bukowska). A professional visitor registration system based on barcodes will be another new development.

Barcodes are present on all documents admitting participants to the fair grounds (tickets, invitations, exhibitors' cards, press cards', vehicle entry passes). Admission to the fair grounds will be possible after scanning the code in a reader in a turnstile.

Please note: retain your admission documents throughout your visit to the fair because you will also need them at the exit (the barcode will have to be scanned in the turnstile).

On all trade fair days assistance will be offered to visitors by the Client Assistant in the Eastern Lobby (entrance from ul. Głogowska) and the WTC Lobby (entrance from ul. Bukowska).

The packaging fair for the food sector is organised every two years and alternates with TAROPAK. The first edition was held in 2007. The time has come for the second one. The Food Industry Packaging Fair PAKFOOD 2009 will take place in Poznań on 14-17 September.

For whom?

PAKFOOD is an event addressed to the representatives of production and trading companies from the food sector, on the one hand, and for the printing industry, on the other hand. Almost 200 exhibitors from 18 countries participated in the first edition of the fair. Expositions on the area of 6,500 square metres were admired by 34,000 visitors (together with the simultaneously held Polagra-Food).

PAKFOOD attracts exhibitors whose offers embrace the most important areas of packaging for the food industry. First of all, these are enterprises offering packaging and additional packaging materials, materials for packaging and production of packaging, as well as companies that design packaging. The second group is constituted by companies offering packaging machines and equipment, machinery for the production of packaging, labelling and marking machines. Companies that design packaging machines and serve as technical consultancies also participate in the fair. New market launches presented at the show are the greatest magnet that attracts attendees.

In a good company

The advantage of PAKFOOD is that it is complementary to simultaneously held shows. This year, PAKFOOD will take place simultaneously with the International Food Product Trade Fair Polagra-Food and the International Trade Fair of Food Processing Technologies Polagra-Tech. Representatives of trading and production companies from the food sector constitute an important target group for marketing activities in the case of both of these shows. This is why the combination of PAKFOOD with Polagra-Food and Polagra-Tech into a single event guarantees a large number of professional visitors.

Not just expositions

PAKFOOD is more than rich offers presented by exhibitors. It is also an interesting programme of side events - prepared in cooperation with such partners as the Polish Chamber of Packaging, organised by publishers of specialised magazines, frequently held under auspices of individual exhibitors.

What has been planned for this year's show? A seminar entitled: "Packaging and the humans and their environment. Packaging management - ecological and environmental aspects" will be prepared by the Polish Chamber of Packaging on the first day. The venue and the timing for the seminar are not coincidental. PAKFOOD and Polagra-Food are a unique opportunity to meet, in one place and at one time, all those who produce packaging and those who are the largest users of packaging, i.e. food manufacturers. The seminar is to raise awareness as regards the threats posed by packaging waste to the environment and human health and to work out solutions for reducing the harmful effects of used packaging.

Packaging Polska and Visual Communication have planned a specialist workshop for the same day. It will be devoted to brand image creating in a commercial space. You will find out how to increase your sales by using POS (point of sale) materials and SRP (shelf ready packaging), how to communicate and sell products through packaging and how to introduce magnetism in a commercial space. The speakers will discuss innovations in trade marketing, digital merchandising, basic visual qualities and factors that influence the visual success of a product.

Further events will be organised on the second day. "Colour Management - a way to increase competitiveness in current market conditions" is the title of one of them. It will be a conference in the Colour Management Academy series organised by Polski Drukarz, the publisher of "Świat DRUKU" and "Pro-KREACJA". The topics will include issues related to the analysis of the printing and packaging market, standards and norms for the printing industry and tolerance margins acceptable in various norms, devices and software that facilitate standardisation in printing houses, practical tips for users of various printing techniques and useful at various stages of printing. The conference is addressed to photographers, graphics experts, DTP and prepress studios, printing companies.

The Polish Chamber of Printing will organise a conference to celebrate its 15th anniversary on the very same day. The agenda will include a session on the packaging industry and market in Poland, a special meeting of the Board of the Polish Chamber of Packaging, and an award ceremony for "Individual Award for Merit in Packaging Industry", "Corporate Award for Merit in Packaging Industry" and "The Founding Company of the Polish Chamber of Packaging". Another seminar related to the show's scope is planned by the Chamber for the third day of the fair. The seminar entitled: "Bar codes - their significance and application in the production, sales and logistics of packaging. New bar codes for 2010" will be addressed to packaging manufacturers, distributors and users. It will be especially useful in the context of changes to be introduced next year.

Międzynarodowe Targi Poznańskie would like to inform you that stands may - in exceptional and justified cases - be installed before the scheduled installation date or dismantled after the scheduled dismantling date only with the consent of MTP. Such consent is granted where it is actually possible to conduct the work on the dates proposed by the applicant.

To obtain the consent to carry out construction or dismantling work on dates other than those set for each individual fair or other event the applicant should apply in writing to MTP's Facility Management Department and provide the reasons why the applicant needs to begin the stand construction earlier or finish the stand dismantling later.

There is a fee payable for stand construction before the scheduled date or dismantling after such date. The fee shall be paid in advance - before construction or dismantling begins.

The fees for such early construction or late dismantling are as follows:

• in pavilions: PLN 2 net per square metre of the leased area, such fee to be no less than PLN 350 net per day*
• outdoors: PLN 0.70 net per square metre of the leased area, such fee to be no less than PLN 150 net per day*

* 7.00 am - 9.30 pm

The fees are payable by those who prepare stands or arrange the leased space:

• participants of fairs and other events who construct stands for their own needs or arrange the area they leased,
• firms which construct stands or arrange leased area for participants of fairs or other events,
• event organisers who are responsible for developing or arranging the leased area.