Packaging
PACK DIFFERENT in PARIS with EMBALLAGE 2008
Friday 26. September 2008 - "Business, Innovation, Forecasting" are the keynotes for the 38th World Packaging Exhibition that will be held in Paris from November 17-21, 2008.
Seven months ahead of the key end-of-year packaging event 2008, EMBALLAGE asserts its difference to offer a new edition still more representative and international, featuring many new products. Immediate takeoff to Paris – the Pack Capital next November!
PROFESSIONAL VISITORS WHO WANT MORE AND MORE!
More than 100,000 visitors expected (40% international)
142 visitor countries represented
93% satisfied with their visit and their contacts with exhibitors
40% of visitors attending only one exhibition
more than 60% “hooked on” the New Products on display
professionals primarily attracted by:
The show’s representativeness and multi-sector organization committed to all industries
Its international standing
Demonstrations of machines in operation
Unveiling of the new packaging trends
The “French Touch” !
ALL PACKAGING SOLUTIONS
FOR ALL USER INDUSTRIES
2,200 companies, with a 53% international offering.
A product display representative of the whole Industry’s offering, organized to facilitate visit:
> 40% of Packages & Containers
> 60% of Machines, Equipment, Related Services.
International pavilions: Belgium, China, Czech Republic, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Taiwan and Turkey.
National pavilions: Eure Expansion, Réseau France Emballage (Rhône-Alpes Packaging, Breizpack, Packaging Valley, Midipack, Atlanpack), Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Bourgogne, CCI Béthune, St Omer Développement (Pas-de-Calais region), CCI 77, Centreco Centrexport, Cosmetic Valley.
A multi-sector offering to meet the needs of all package user and consumer markets (e.g. food, cosmetics, beauty, luxury, pharmaceutical, health, manufacturing industries, consumer goods), supported by specific communication campaigns for individual markets.
EMBALLAGE, A TREND AND INNOVATION REVEALING EXHIBITION
? The BioMaterials area,
Focus on emerging solutions and key issues
For the first time in France, discover an exhibit area entirely dedicated to biomaterials.
Packaging made of biomaterials address current environmental issues. From 2006 to 2011, the consumption of biomaterial packaging is expected to rise at an annual rate of 22% (source: Intertech /PIRA/ June 2007).
As a first sign of this trend, production capacities doubled between 2006 and 2008.
In this area, you will get a comprehensive overview of this rapidly expanding industry and learn about all biomaterial innovations and latest applications!
? The Trends Area: A concentrated round-up of ideas and innovations
To find out about new products is mentioned by visitors as their prime motive among all the reasons for visiting an exhibition. With the Trends Area, EMBALLAGE prioritizes innovation. Located at the entrance of Hall 6, the Trends Area stages the most outstanding and representative new products among nearly 500 new products announced by exhibitors at each edition.
The innovations displayed in the Trends Area will be selected by a jury of international journalists among all the new products declared on the basis of 5 major criteria: « safer », « more convenient », « more cost-effective », « more eco-citizen » and « more different ».
Offering a concentration in innovation, the Trends Area will be a must-see highlight for all visitors who want to have a summary view of packaging trends.
? The Pack.Vision Symposium: Focus on the new packaging trends
The Pack.Vision Symposium, the first International Package Design symposium, gathers the key players in package innovation: Packaging manufacturers, brands, design agencies and international trends firms will provide their expertise for a programme featuring about twenty presentations during the five days of the exhibition on varied themes such as e.g. eco-design, biomaterials and environmental labelling.
For its third edition, the Pack.Vision symposium will now be held in the heart of Hall 6 – a hall dedicated to packages and containers. Admission to the symposium will be free for all EMBALLAGE visitors who will have the opportunity to seek information, discuss, or simply find out about the latest pack developments in their marketing, technical, forecasting, economic and societal aspects.
? The « Art and Packaging » exposition,
A natural connection, naturally staged at EMBALLAGE 2008
The Art and Packaging exposition, which will be presented during EMBALLAGE 2008, will highlight the close links and multiple influences between art and packaging. It will start at each entrance to the exhibition where a young talented photographer will show her vision of art and packaging using Paris as a backdrop. She will express herself on an unusual and out-of-the-ordinary medium that will be unveiled on site.
This exceptional and novel exposition will also show the six major stages of art and packaging history (in a dedicated area in hall 6):
Founding artists: End of 19th/beginning of 20th centuries, the first packages created by artists.
Appearance in art: Packages gain conspicuousness and are used in works of art in the early 20th century.
Artistic inspiration: Marketing and designers appear between the two world wars, and are inspired by works of art and artistic movements.
Communication strategy: Brands use art and artists for image and product enhancement.
Artistic medium: Packages become a medium, a material for artists.
Work of art: Packages enter museums, some of them are considered as works of art.
An exposition organized in collaboration with INDP (the National package design institute) and its President Fabrice Peltier, author of a book titled « Art, échanges créatifs » (collection IdPack) forthcoming exclusive for EMBALLAGE 2008 – with the original creations of the photographer Patricia de Gorostarzu.
? The Plastic Eco Design Center
Initiated by Allizé-Plasturgie (Alliance Zone Est de la Plasturgie), the Plastic Eco Design Center combines the expertise of a transnational French-Italian network on three aspects: information, training and industrial development. The objective is to provide concrete assistance to companies for the design of plastic products while ensuring the lowest possible impact on the environment.
At EMBALLAGE 2008, le Plastic Eco Design Center will propose high value-added services to anyone who has a package design project, in particular via:
– the Materiautech which offers an extremely wide range of plastic material samples;
– an eco-design area showing all the tools specially designed for the plastics processing industry;
– an area dedicated to prototyping;
– an area devoted to the recovery and recycling of end-of-life packaging.
The Plastic Eco Design Center’s programme will present two expositions: one on biomaterials and the other on eco-designed parts of the packaging world. Free presentations will also be delivered over the five days of the exhibition.
? The Packaging Observatory: A unique market barometer
The Packaging Observatory was initiated by the exhibition in December 2005 with the aim of providing a recurrent strategic and economic monitoring tool on the business prospects of the packaging-related industries in France. Thanks to the support and involvement of the major trade associations, EMBALLAGE reported the findings of its second survey in November 2007 covering the Industry’s major prospects and challenges by 2010.
An information-laden report based on the cross views of manufacturers, equipment suppliers and users.