Packaging
Setting future accents in converting: ICE Europe 2023 begins in Munich
Tuesday 14. March 2023 - Other visitor attractions include the prestigious ICE Awards and the parallel CCE International, including the popular InPrint Munich conference. Just one ticket opens up a unique range of products for the converting, paper and printing industries and their many target markets.
From 14 to 16 March 2023, the industry will meet in Munich for the 13th International Trade Fair for Converting Technology. With a total net exhibition area of 8,700 square metres and around 340 exhibiting companies from 21 countries, this year’s ICE Europe continues its success story as the industry’s most popular marketplace. Here, everything revolves around forward-looking innovations and profitable business ideas.
Other visitor attractions include the prestigious ICE Awards and the parallel CCE International, including the popular InPrint Munich conference. Just one ticket opens up a unique range of products for the converting, paper and printing industries and their many target markets.
In keeping with the spring-like spirit of optimism, the world’s leading trade fair for the converting and finishing industry, ICE Europe 2023, opens its doors. Well-known tech brands and innovation drivers will present their latest machinery and equipment for converting and finishing flexible, web-shaped materials, such as paper, film, foil and nonwovens. In addition, there will be matching accessories, materials and services.
With ICE Europe, the converting industry has a powerful sourcing and networking platform for converting technology that opens up new business opportunities and markets. Advancing automation, growing connectivity and collaboration, new approaches to personalisation and identity marketing, and the profound demand for greater sustainability in production and consumption are just some of the current trends driving interest in innovation and investment.
Buyer-oriented format with live demonstrations and face-to-face technical discussions
ICE Europe covers a broad spectrum of converting applications in a wide range of industries, including packaging, paper and printing, medical and pharmaceutical, chemical, plastics, textiles, automotive, aerospace, machinery, food and beverage, electronics and consumer goods. To make the technical innovations easily accessible to buyers, the show will feature numerous live demonstrations and opportunities for networking and knowledge sharing.
“ICE Europe is the only trade event that presents the topic of converting in such a compact and focused way, while covering such a wide range of manufacturing industries,” explains Patrick Herman, Exhibition Director for Converting, Paper and Printing, on behalf of RX. “Visitors can get straight into the technical aspects. Here they’ll meet peers, technology providers, pioneers and thought leaders from a wide range of industries – a fantastic opportunity to look for solutions suitable for their own business and discuss them with experts.”
Strong exhibitor line-up with leading brand companies
In search of bespoke products and processing solutions, visitors will be able to access a wide range of exhibitors with technology providers from around the world. Leading brand suppliers at the show include: Erhardt + Leimer, Kroenert, NDC Technologies, Olbrich / Polytype, PSA Technology, BST, Dr Hönle, Jagenberg Group, Kongskilde Industrietechnik, Neuenhauser Maschinenbau, Siemens, CMC Cevenini, Bimec, Cavalleri, Valmet, Scantech, New Era Converting Machinery, Davis-Standard and many more.
The exhibits on display cover all process areas of finishing and converting, including coating and laminating, drying and curing, (pre-)treatment, slitting and winding, flexo and gravure printing, converting, contract converting, film extrusion and control, measuring and testing systems. In addition, accessories, materials and services are also presented, for example in the areas of factory management, waste disposal and recycling or retrofitting of equipment.