Innovations at World's Largest Packaging Show

摘要

Every three years in spring, the fairgrounds in Dusseldorf, Germany, teem with the greatest array of innovation the packaging community can muster-Interpack. On April 21-27 this year, more than 2,600 organizations from 57 countries welcomed nearly 200,000 industry professionals from more than 100 nations. Because Interpack represents the target focus for the world's packaging industries, the overwhelming majority of exhibitors try to debut their latest developments on the triannual schedule of this massive event. Exhibition organizers provided some stunning data: the world packaging production volume is nearly a half trillion dollars. Germany is the world's largest maker of packaging machinery, followed by the United States (previously the leader), Japan, Italy, and China. And plastics have taken the top package materials position from paper and paperboard, which still dominates distribution packaging.