The Year's Finale | The Stars Are in Place: the November International Processing and Packaging Joint Exhibition Will Set Shanghai Ablaze
An important professional exhibition in Asia's processing and packaging field, hosted by Shanghai UBM Sinoexpo International Exhibition Co., Ltd.
——“ProPak China & FoodPack China 2020, the 2020 Shanghai International Food Processing and Packaging Machinery Exhibition Joint Show, will raise its curtain on November 25-27 at the National Exhibition and Convention Center (Shanghai). Together with the concurrently held series of brand exhibitions on healthy ingredients, food ingredients, health nutrition products and the starch industry, it will share six major halls of the National Exhibition and Convention Center (Shanghai), with 170,000 square meters of display space, and an estimated 1,800 Chinese and foreign exhibitors and 110,000 professional visitors are expected to join the grand event.
From packaging machinery, food processing, liquid processing, weighing and metering equipment, packaging materials and containers and label printing technology, to industrial robots, warehousing logistics and quality inspection equipment, the joint show will, with the processing and packaging
“grand slam” posture, open up in one stop the processing and packaging links of the food, beverage, dairy, personal care, fast-moving consumer goods, pharmaceutical, health and electronics industries.
Brand exhibitors shine like stars
An unexpected pandemic caught everyone off guard, yet it also made the opportunity for face-to-face exchanges and cooperation between enterprises seem especially precious. Now the industry is recovering day by day and getting better and better, and at this
“daybreak” moment, the finale processing and packaging joint show of the year arrives as promised, gathering the strength of the industry and once again presenting to the world the vigorous vitality and development potential of China's processing and packaging industry and market.
This joint show attracted enthusiastic participation from many well-known processing and packaging companies, with leading enterprises and new industry players each showing their own strengths and bringing industry-leading products, equipment, services and solutions, including food processing equipment, automated packaging production lines, overall integration of packaging production lines, packaging industrial robots, sealing machines, vacuum packaging machines, aseptic packaging machines, metering and filling machinery, filling machinery, weighing, product packaging inspection, labels and flexible packaging, smart logistics equipment and systems, packaging materials and products and more, helping manufacturers reduce energy consumption, improve production efficiency and stability, save factory space and cut labor costs. By actively participating in this year-end finale processing and packaging industry event, companies will effectively open up upstream and downstream industry relationships and fully explore and accumulate new partners, win orders and open up markets.
l Processing technology: food/beverage/dairy/liquid/personal care product processing equipment, filling technology, etc.
l Packaging technology: food/beverage/FMCG/industrial personal care products/pharmaceutical packaging machinery, etc.
l Labeling and printing technology/flexible packaging: labeling and printing equipment, material supply, equipment spare parts, flexible packaging printing equipment, etc.
l Logistics packaging technology: logistics packaging technology, labels and marking, palletizers, AGV logistics equipment and systems, etc.
l Intelligent manufacturing: industrial robots, industrial automation, vision and sensors, smart warehousing/logistics, etc.
l Packaging materials and products: packaging materials/products/containers, plastic, paperboard, metal and glass packaging, etc.
Global industry giants keep their appointments
Decades of work in the industry and successful exhibition experience have accumulated a wealth of high-quality overseas customer resources for the joint show. Although the exhibition was postponed, overseas exhibitors' enthusiasm for participating did not diminish. Amid great changes in the world, the importance of the Chinese market has become increasingly prominent, once again confirming the position of the Shanghai International Food Processing, Packaging and Packaging Machinery Joint Show as a flagship event in Asia.
The November exhibition continued to attract more than 100 overseas brands from the United States, Germany, Italy, Belgium, Canada, Finland, Japan, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Singapore and elsewhere, including Aetna, AFA, Anritsu, Apollo, cab, Cama, Cavanna, Clevertech, Ilpra, FAM, Fortress, Fuji Machinery, Furukawa, General Packer, Key Technology, Koch, Ishida, Magnuson, Marko Labelling, Mekitec, Mettler Toledo, Nadella, Optima, Paxiom, Ro
nchi Mario, Rovema, Strapack, Syntron, Tosa, UCIMA, Universal Pack, Urschel, Vemag, Wolf, Yamato, Thermo Fisher and others. Whether through domestic agents or arriving as promised while complying with strict epidemic prevention measures, overseas exhibitors spared no expense and will make full use of this international platform of the joint show to present the fruitful results of aligning global wisdom with Chinese opportunities.
High-end professional visitors lend their support
The 2020 joint show gathered high-quality national and local resources of the processing technology and packaging industry, and as a one-stop sourcing and trade platform connecting the entire industrial chain, it attracted great attention from many professional buyers. According to the organizer's latest statistics, the number of pre-registered visitors exceeded that of the same period in 2019 (one month before the show) by more than 15%, including heavyweight buyers from terminal fields such as food, beverage, dairy products, pharmaceuticals and personal care, such as well-known companies including Danone, Pepsi, Starbucks, Mars Food, Unilever, Coca-Cola, Sanyuan Foods, Beingmate, Nestlé, China Resources Snow Breweries, Wahaha, Junlebao, Johnson & Johnson, Procter & Gamble and Jiangzhong Pharmaceutical.
Gathering more innovative ideas
A number of innovative technology forums and activities will be held alongside the joint show, covering hot topics such as food processing, digital packaging, sustainable packaging, packaging design and creativity, inviting industry experts to share real product cases and discuss applications of advanced technology, providing inspiration and information to people in the industry.
Preview of concurrent conferences at the 2020 Food Processing and Packaging Machinery Exhibition Joint Show
l 2020 Annual Meeting of the China Food and Packaging Machinery Industry Association and the 9th Asian Food Forum
l China Food Industry Digital Transformation and Upgrading Forum
l 2020 Yangtze River Delta Food Industry Innovation and Development Forum
l 2020 Yangtze River Delta Beverage Forum
l Packaging Machinery Industry Supply Chain Alliance Summit
l Innovation and Sustainable Development Packaging Forum
l Leading the Change for the Future — Packaging Innovation Forum
Strong support from professional associations, with professional buyer groups visiting as delegations
The 2020 Shanghai International Food Processing and Packaging Machinery Exhibition Joint Show received strong support from many domestic food, personal care, beverage, printing and packaging-related industry associations, including the China Food and Packaging Machinery Industry Association, the Shanghai Society for Food Science and Technology, the Shanghai Beverage Industry Association, the Shanghai Daily Chemical Industry Association, the Shanghai Packaging Technology Association, the Jiangsu Food Industry Association, the Zhejiang Packaging Machinery Committee, the Zhejiang Daily Chemical Industry Association, the Zhejiang Health Products and Cosmetics Industry Association, the Chongqing Food Industry Association, the Shandong Daily Chemical Industry Association and the Heilongjiang Beverage Industry Association. With the strong support of these industry associations, more than a thousand professional buyer group members from various provinces and cities have registered to attend the exhibition.
There is more to come from the 2020 Shanghai International Food Processing and Packaging Machinery Exhibition Joint Show — we look forward to meeting you again on November 25-27 at the National Exhibition and Convention Center (Shanghai)! Visit the exhibition's official website
www.propakchina.com
to learn more of the latest news about the show
Shanghai UBM Sinoexpo International Exhibition Co., Ltd.
T: 189 3072 8516
miya.zhou@imsinoexpo.com
Shanghai UBM Sinoexpo International Exhibition Co., Ltd.
T: 181 1634 3372
lydia.zheng@imsinoexpo.com
——This article is reprinted from China Packaging Network (pack.cn), original link: http://news.pack.cn/show-357027.html
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