A Successful Conclusion, the Excitement Never Ends! Shanghai Processing and Packaging Joint Exhibition - See You Again in 2021!

As the finale annual event in the processing and packaging field this year, the joint exhibition joined hands with a series of concurrent branded shows covering healthy ingredients, food ingredients, the Great Health Expo and the starch industry, sharing six exhibition halls of the National Exhibition and Convention Center (Shanghai), with a display area reaching 160,000 square meters, running through the entire food industry and shining at one stop. A number of summit forums and innovative technology exchange meetings were also held concurrently, offering exhibitors and visitors a series of activities such as cutting-edge trend analysis, innovative technology sharing, policy and regulation interpretation, industry expansion and brand promotion, further driving the food processing and packaging machinery industry to upgrade its gears and innovate for greater efficiency.

The joint exhibition was created through in-depth cooperation between two major shows, ProPak China and FoodPack China. From packaging machinery, food processing, liquid processing, weighing and metering equipment, packaging materials and containers and label printing technology, to industrial robots, warehousing and logistics and quality inspection equipment, the joint exhibition opens up in one stop, with the “grand slam” posture of processing and packaging, the processing and packaging links of the food, beverage, dairy, personal care, fast-moving consumer goods, pharmaceutical, health and electronics industries. This edition brought together 768 exhibiting companies and attracted more than 100 overseas brands from the United States, Germany, Italy, Belgium, Canada, Finland, Japan, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Singapore and elsewhere, presenting in concentrated form the fruitful results of aligning global wisdom with Chinese opportunities and bringing to China's processing and packaging market machinery and production technologies, innovative R&D achievements and sustainable packaging concepts that represent advanced international standards.

The joint exhibition assembled a powerful lineup of manufacturers. Well-known exhibiting companies included: Yongchuang Intelligent, Hualian, Zhongya, Yuedong, Bihai, Wuhan Rentian, Pulisi, Atom, Guerqi, Sibide, Dajiang, Sutian, Songchuan, Brother, Huituo, Jin'an, Yilin, Danone, Bosda, Weikeda, Hengli, Xiangyang, Dahe, Yilong, Yihe, Jiayi, Komatsu, Xingpaike, Yuan'an, Taichuan, Nissin, Shenlong, Little Yellow Bee, Mettler-Toledo, Aetna, AFA, Apollo, Fortress, Fuji Machinery, Koch, Ishida, Strapack, Wolf, Thermo Fisher and others.

As a one-stop sourcing and trade platform connecting the entire industrial chain, and under the upstream and downstream linkage effects of the concurrently held Healthy Ingredients Show, Food Ingredients Show and Starch Show, this edition of the processing and packaging industry event drew great attention from professional buyers at home and abroad. Professional buyers and users from terminal fields such as food, beverage, dairy products, fast-moving consumer goods, pharmaceuticals, e-commerce and personal care came in a steady stream, and over the three days of the show a total of 29,330 professional visitors attended.

Among them were well-known companies such as Danone, Pepsi, Starbucks, Mars Food, Unilever, Coca-Cola, Suntory, Tsingtao Beer, Sanyuan Foods, Beingmate, Nestlé, China Resources Snow Breweries, Wahaha, Junlebao, Johnson & Johnson, Procter & Gamble, Unilever, Amway, Jiangzhong Pharmaceutical, Greenland, RT-Mart, Dongjin Group, Glico, Lifeng, Cargill, Want Want China, Damuhan, Shanghai Jahwa, Koushuiwa, Beiersdorf, New Hope Group and Yan Zhong. They attached great importance to this final 2020 processing and packaging trade event, held in-depth exchanges with on-site exhibitors to seek cooperation, so as to seize the golden window of industry recovery and capture new market opportunities.

This edition brought several innovative technology forums and activities, holding in-depth discussions on many topics of industry concern such as automation solutions for the packaging machinery industry, anti-counterfeiting and traceability solutions, packaging innovation, food and beverage label marking and food safety. Many well-known industry experts and scholars were invited to attend the conferences, which presented a series of wonderful lectures where innovative ideas collided.

The 2020 Yangtze River Delta Food Industry Innovation and Development Forum and the Yangtze River Delta Famous and Excellent Food Brand Building Exchange Conference, jointly created by the joint exhibition and the Yangtze River Delta Food Industry Innovation Cooperation Alliance, are dedicated to optimizing the allocation of regional resources, promoting industrial transfer and collaborative technological innovation, and advancing the integrated, high-quality development of the food industry in the Yangtze River Delta. This year's conference took as its theme the challenges and opportunities facing China's food industry after the COVID-19 pandemic, and consisted of three parts: the 2020 Yangtze River Delta Food Industry Innovation and Development Forum, the Yangtze River Delta Famous and Excellent Food Brand Building Exchange Conference, and the Food Park Innovation and Development Forum and Yangtze River Delta Food Industry Scientific and Technological Achievements Release Conference. More than 400 representatives from governments, parks, food-related universities and enterprises in Shanghai, Jiangsu, Anhui and other places attended the forum.

The “2020 7th Fast-Moving Consumer Goods Offline Closed-Door Private Board Meeting — Special Session on Packaging and Great Health Trends” was successfully held alongside the joint exhibition. The meeting was chaired by Mr. Chen Jie, Director of the Oriental Fast-Moving Consumer Goods Center, and was attended by executives from more than 30 fast-moving consumer goods brand owners, retailers and supply chain enterprises, including Yihe Machinery, Yier Mei, Haichuan, Greenland, Kangcheng Investment, Dongjin, Glico, Lifeng, Cargill, Want Want, Suntory, Shanghai Jahwa, OATLY, Hema, Ruoyuchen and Rousselot, who exchanged views and shared insights on packaging and great health trends, expectations for the peak sales season and key priorities.

The “Leading the Change for the Future” Intelligent Packaging Innovation Forum and the book “China Packaging Compendium — Mould Volume” attracted more than 200 peers from upstream and downstream of the fast-moving consumer goods industry chain to gather together and listen to technical experts describe the technological innovation and sustainable development trends of intelligent packaging. The release of “China Packaging Compendium — Mould Volume” was also held on site, introducing the essence of fast-moving consumer goods mould design, manufacturing and management technology and innovation trends to technicians working in the industry, so that more engineers, students and packaging enthusiasts can quickly master mould technology in the fast-moving consumer goods industry.

The 2nd Summit of the Packaging Machinery Industry Supply Chain Alliance, hosted by the Yangtze River Delta Intelligent Packaging Service Platform and co-organized by the China Packaging Machinery Portal and Shanghai UBM Sinoexpo International Exhibition Co., Ltd., was also held at the show site. Focusing on hot issues such as automation solutions, anti-counterfeiting and traceability solutions and packaging application cases, guest speakers from major outstanding enterprises in the industry delivered excellent presentations to the audience. A series of activities including the Innovation and Sustainable Development Packaging Forum were also held during the exhibition.

Booking for the 2021 exhibition is now open

The next Shanghai International Food Processing and Packaging Machinery Exhibition joint show (ProPak & FoodPack China) will be held on June 23-25, 2021 at the National Exhibition and Convention Center (Shanghai). The exhibition area will be further expanded and the services will be comprehensively upgraded! We hope to join hands with you again in the future to drive the development of the industry!

Vicky Leung

Shanghai UBM Sinoexpo International Exhibition Co., Ltd.

T: 131 4389 6198

E: vicky.leung@imsinoexpo.com

Han Luo

Shanghai UBM Sinoexpo International Exhibition Co., Ltd.

T: 151 2115 6435

han.luo@imsinoexpo.com

——This article is reprinted from China Packaging Network (pack.cn), original link: http://news.pack.cn/show-357278.html