Press material
Press releases
13/05/2025
A stepping stone to Asia: Shanghai World of Packaging 2025 opens doors to the Asian packaging market
There is a vital port of call for those seeking to gain a foothold in Asia: the Shanghai World of Packaging (swop). This is the ideal meeting-point for all those looking to make their entry into one of the world’s most exciting areas of economic activity.
13/05/2025
K, interpack and drupa on Expansion Path in the Middle East
The industry's leading trade fairs, K, interpack and drupa, are further expanding their international reach by jointly entering the Saudi Arabian market. This step is made possible by the expanded partnership between Messe Düsseldorf and the Riyadh Exhibition Company.
27/03/2025
interpack 2026 is fully booked – the Hot Topics have been defined
With a clear year’s run-up, the course is set for interpack: the Hot Topics are in place with Smart Manufacturing, Innovative Materials and Future Skills, and they reflect the sector’s most pressing challenges and drivers of innovation.
17/01/2025
Tomato Jos in Nigeria is the winner of the 2024 SAVE FOOD project competition
Every year, the SAVE FOOD project competition honours exemplary projects. This year, the award and the funding amount of 10,000 euros are going to Nigeria, where a combination of modern technology, transport packaging, education programmes and direct market access has significantly reduced post-harvest losses.
Technical articles
01/05/2024
No packaging, no way: product protection challenges
Packaging, especially when made of plastic, is often today the target of criticism, focusing on excessive volumes of waste, carbon emissions and resource consumption. In this process, their most important function is often forgotten: protecting products so that they reach the consumer unscathed. And packaging is crucial to ensuring this outcome.
12/12/2023
Packaging production in 2023: conserving resources wherever possible
Raw materials are the starting point for the production process, which makes their availability immensely important for the packaging industry. But in 2023, the global economy continued to be in the grip of supply bottlenecks and material shortages.
12/12/2023
Building a circular economy in the packaging industry: progress and challenges in 2023
Once again this year, the subject of how to establish a circular economy has gained significant pace. This has been driven most notably by the European Commission’s plans set out at the end of 2022 for an EU packaging regulation, which will affect the entire economy and has been hotly debated as a result.
29/11/2023
Digitalisation 2023: Everything is connected
Next to the mega-trend of sustainability, digitalisation also dominated the packaging industry this year. “Digital Technologies” consequently were one of the Hot Topics at this year’s interpack. Especially the increasing use of artificial intelligence (AI) creates whole new opportunities in all areas of the industry.
